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From:  "Elizabeth Finkler" <mightymezzo@h...>
Date:  Wed Oct 24, 2001  10:33 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Re: Interesting Singer Diary on the Web

My problem with the comparison is that the two actions (singing a major
operatic role vs. running a marathon) require very different actions. I can
play the Old Lady in "Candide," flamenco dancing and all, five performances
a week, no problem. I can (and have) biked twenty miles in a day. But if I
attempted a marathon, my knees would give out after less than a mile.

Incidentally, my upcoming run in "Hansel and Gretel" will involve school
shows (3 a day for three days running) with a call at EIGHT *%$^$IN' A.M.!
Take that, Janet!

Elizabeth "I'm not fat, I'm furry!" Finkler
Sunnyvale, California
mightymezzo@h...
http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo

"Ist auf deinem Psalter,
Vater der Liebe, ein Ton
Seinem Ohre vernehmlich,
So erquicke sein Herz!"
--J.W. von Goethe



>From: Greypins@a...
>>
> not only did she claim singing a majoe role used as much energy as a
>marathon, she suggested there was some study that looked into it. i don't
>even believe that. if singing an opera used as much energy as running a
>marathon, there wouldn't be so many fat opera singers singing two to three
>performances a week.
>
>mike
>


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