>Colin, I am tenor also and long before I discovered that Bjorling said he >had no falsetto I was convinced that I also had none. > Only head voice and chest. >Try as I might especially in the presence of singers who could sing >falsetto, I could not reproduce it. It's for this reason that I've become >convinced that it is a product of a lower fach. It has always been my >experience that the baritones and basses could sing the soprano >line, but not me. I have felt left out . : ) > This suggests to me that CTs may be baritones or basses who >tried to be tenors, but failed. : ) Reg.
huh? I'm a tenor and I've definitely got falsetto. I can sing falsetto higher than my fellow student baritones and basses. they posses a thicker hootier falsetto, wherease mine is a lot lighter, sweeter and faster. I've hear pavarotti sing falsetto in some arias, and what about mario lanza? Listen to 'Arrivaderci Roma.' And I've heard carreras slip into falsetto a zillion times. Jeff Buckley, for a non-operatic high tenor had an extraordinary falsetto, which he swelled into full co-ordinated voice often. As to CT's being baritones or basses who couldn't be tenors, pure bollocks. (....now there's a loaded pun). I think CT's may purely miss their voice of pre-pubescent days if anything.
Mirko
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