On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Isabelle Bracamonte wrote:
> In fact, if you have fair agility and can develop a
> good ability to sing clear coloratura (try taking Il
> mio tesoro at double-speed, for example, and keep the
> coloratura clean), you will be that most rare and
> prized thing, a Rossini tenor. Rossini is done a LOT
> and very few men can move the voice in the requisite
> way and sustain the high tessitura. You will be MUCH
> in demand.
The real test is Almaviva's second aria from LE NOZZE DI FIGARO. If you
can do that really well, you're in clover!
KM
=====
My NEIL SHICOFF Website:
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/shicoff/shicoff.html
My Website:
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
-----
We're sitting in the opera house;
We're waiting for the curtain to arise
With wonders for our eyes,
A feeling of expectancy,
A certain kind of ecstasy,
Expectancy and ecstasy....Sh's's's.
- Charles Ives
|
|  |
