GWendel Yee <gwyee@r...> wrote: > I wonder if countertenor methodology, appropriately modified, > would be of help?
It might not even have to be modified - there are quite a few countertenors out there that are starting out with a high, light root voice. I don't imagine it's all that different... Unless this person has had her vocal folds surgically altered, her singing apparatus is still that of a man.
The truth is, my teachers have treated my voice like a woman's and it works out just fine. Perhaps the physiology is not identical between countertenors and women, but the concepts/methods of approaching the passagii are.
There is a history of crossing cultures between transvestism and countertenoring: La Gran Scena of NY, Chinese and Japanese opera and Boy George (!). There are some countertenors that practically "pass" without trying, like Yoshikazu Mera when he's got all that make-up on :-P
Tako Oda, Countertenor
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