I am convinced there is a special place in hell for all those lyric
sopranos who don't feel special and insist on pushing/squeaking/yelling
anything with an overabundance of leger lines. ;)
Mark Montgomery
On Tue, 16 May 2000 Zerbintta@a... wrote:
> I was auditioning for HOFFMANN last weekend and an interesting thing
> happened. A soprano went in a few people before me and absolutely blew all
> 3 of the high E-flats she attempted in the Doll's Song. I don't mean she was
> just tight or squeaked, I mean she was at least a whole step flat on each of
> them (espcially the last, held out note which was the most obvious.) When
> she came out she said this:
>
> "Well, I guess I didn't have them today. I didn't think I did but I thought
> I'd better try them anyway."
>
> Now here are my issues with this. (1) Isn't it a good rules of tongue to
> only sing notes in any audition/performance that you KNOW you
> have...consistently? (2) Is it really worth showing up to audition for this
> company knowing, or at least believing (since it's all really a psych job
> anyway) that on that day you don't have what it takes to make a good
> impression? It was a fairly well known regional ompany afterall.
>
> What do you all think about this?
>
> Zerbinetta
>
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