List, Here's my dilemma: In our Opera Excerpts programme we're going to do (inter alia) the last scene of Rigoletto, and at the words "Fu vision!" I'm told that I'm singing "Fo vision!" . Immediately you may respond - well then sing it right!. My problem is that if I sing the sound asked for, my singer's formant disappears, only to reappear with a vengeance on the vowels following. I personally feel that my 'u' isn't quite an 'o' though it is probably more 'o' than my auditors are used to, and is something that I developed for a more consistent sound in German repertoire (I'm largely self-taught, and my method has been perhaps a little teutonic - but now I'm being asked to do an awful lot of Italian from a strongly Italian-oriented director - a good thing, many may say, except it requires a lot of adjustment on my part). Is there a more acceptable modification of an 'u' vowel that will still project and not make the following 'i' and 'o' seem like bullies? Or what? Solutions anybody? john John Blyth Baritono robusto e lirico Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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