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From:  Axwell@a...
Axwell@a...
Date:  Sun Feb 4, 2001  9:32 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Weight Control


In a message dated 2/4/2001 12:43:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, sopran@a...
writes:

<< Also, it's my considered opinion that if you're going to be a secure
singer
in a professional career, you'd better learn to accept and value yourself as
you are, no matter what your weight, whether or not you fit some idealized
notion of beauty. >>

You can value yourself at any weight. That is not the point. When you
are an established singer, the rules are different than when you are starting
out. Do you really think Caballe would have been hired originally as a young
singer if she was as fat as she is today ? There is an idealized notion of
beauty and it would be best if a potential singer recognized it and came as
close as possible to this. All other things being equal, the more attractive
singer (by popular standards) is going to win. Every other idea is just
whistling Dixie. Heros and heroines in opera are carrying a story line.
Opera is not a concert. When you have huge people in opera playing these
parts it is because their talent is so overwhelmingly great. People with
lesser talents had best better measure up physically and not count on getting
by with their lesser talents and greater body fat.

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