Hi there, I'm wanting to find out what the liklihood is of a person getting/gaining top range after an extended amount of time of either bad technique, or age. I haven't talked to my voice teacher about this yet, and wanted to get thoughts from all of you.
I'm definitely a light lyric/lyric coloratura/lyrico leggeiro(sp?), but I've lost my high e-flat and e. Now, this could very well be to bad tongue position which I'm trying to remedy, but I guess my question is prompted by my looking through various arias that I'd really like to do for competitions, and which, for 99.999% of the piece my voice is perfectly suited to, but for the errant high e or even f. I'm 30 now, and have had 2 children in the last 2 years, but I didn't have my e for several years prior to that even. I'm not certain that I've had an e-flat or e since I was around 22 or 23 actually.
Is it reasonable to assume that if I correct my tongue position and tension stuff that I could get those notes back? Maybe even get an f? Or is it not terribly likely and perhaps not worth the effort? I'm not saying correcting the technique and tongue stuff wouldn't be worth the effort, just the goal of getting those notes back.
Just curious.
Thanks in advance.
Laura
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