In a message dated 3/19/2001 1:02:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, ibracamonte@y... writes:
<< I'm not suggesting that a 20-year-old needs to be singing in a 3000-seat arena with a 100-piece orchestra. But micophones necessarily teach students to back off of ring and instead emphasize fullness, warmth, expressive coloring, tone manipulation that uses inadequate breath control -- recording tricks, in short. This does not teach the most important building block in the process of training a voice for an operatic career -- to wit, how to produce a healthy, sustainable tone that will cut through an orchestra. >>
isabelle,
if there is little response above what one would sense of one's voice in a smaller house, the singer will likely not back off, especially if there are no monitors. it may well be that the use of miking in the opera house is essentially the same experience as in the use of miking in the recording studio (for opera, that is).
also, the young singer does not have the experience to trust physics over effort and so, the use of miking may reassure young singers they will be heard and thus, reinforce the practice of trusting good technique rather than resorting to great effort.
mike
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