At 01:13 PM 07/08/2000 -0400, sopran@a... wrote:
>It got me wondering how the divas of the day--Melba, for instance, or
>Tetrazini--were able to sing the way they did in those contraptions.
>
>Now I know that you can "lean" against the corset to maintain some expansion
>of the ribs, but how do you get a really decent breath in the first place
>when wearing a tightly laced corset?
Maybe they didn't - just speculating - maybe they wore them
loose - or not at all - and maybe that's how opera divas got
the reputation of being saftig....
What's amazing to me is how any women survived, let alone were
able to sing!
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