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From:  Greypins@a...
Greypins@a...
Date:  Mon Mar 19, 2001  7:05 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] miking/enhancing in opera?


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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