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From:  thomas mark montgomery <thomas8@t...>
thomas mark montgomery <thomas8@t...>
Date:  Tue Oct 3, 2000  2:34 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] sls and opera, was breath supp. etc



Neither Upshaw or McNair is my favorite soprano, but I must say that they
sing much more operatically in the house than either does in the studio,
where one tends to croon and the other, whine.

Mark Montgomery

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Isabelle Bracamonte wrote:

> > Dawn Upshaw and Sylvia McNair would be very good
> > examples of singers who
> > mirror SLS production in opera
>
> Eek, I hate them both! Give me Tebaldi or Zajick with
> their "distorted" sound any day.
>
> SLS and I will have to agree to disagree on this
> matter. I much prefer a richer, more penetrating,
> more viscerally operatic sound to the crossover sound
> SLS advocates.


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