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OMG what a disaster....

Flaviano Labo was wonderful. So underrated.

Galli-Curci said about singing (among other advice): "I think that everybody of us has a way to sing that is quite personal."

I remember hearing him on radio and TV! What a blessing it was to live in the era of singers like this.

Such a gorgeous plethora of fantastical thought with no inexorable relation with scientific reality. Singers are singularly peculiar creatures, in this case reminiscent in their ways of explaining the craft to old grannies explaining the thought process behind the methods used when cooking their signature dishes: "Brown the roast before braising, so it won't loose it's juices"; "Add a pinch of ash to your caramel so it remains creamy"; "always put the bay leaf before the salt". The rationale may be flawed, but the food and the singing both happen to be exquisite. That is, in my humblest of opinions, part of the beauty of this grand mistery that is Opera.

Carreras..too funny!

Magda Olivero kept her voice incredibly healthy her entire life so that's a good reference!

Great voices. But she is straining her voice unfortunately.

OMG same thing as with Nilsson and Corelli, the recording is slowed way down to screw up the timing

This video clearly had to have been manipulated by someone. Slowed way down in the parts they wanted to extend. This is awful, makes it look like they both came in very late constantly, which they would never have done. They were huge opera stars at the peak of their careers. I guess nobody else noticed, but painful for me to hear it massacred by some UA-camr click baiting. Either that or you got it from some very distorted recording. It's abysmal. The timing is completely off. They would never have sung like that, they wouldn't have even dared. Here's how they actually sang it, in great timing. As they say, timing is everything. ua-cam.com/video/S-GV5t5XLjg/v-deo.html&si=ca20zwxp61ec7LWi

It comes back to the issue that you can't see what your muscles are actually doing while singing, so yo resort to describing the sensations and that's not always accurate to what is actually happening physically.

Varied quotes and opinions from those singers indeed.

He has a vibrato that reminds me of a goat.

"Make it blossom like a tree in Spring" said a teacher of a friend of mine. My friend asked "what kind of tree?" The teacher responded impatiently "I don't know. Just pick one!"🤣

Most of these quotes will lead to confusion and not to progress.

- GDS' voice never really "went", he just had to revert to "loud and louder", later in life (like, for instance, 1966, which should have been smack in the middle of his best years for larger stuff). Instead, became a Bb tenor, but same basic color as always. Wide open and clean to a G natural, throaty from Ab up, as his passaggio was abnormally high. - MDM's voice had more squillo than ten tenors. Only live recordings begin to capture it. Voices his size and range of color never translated well to studio recordings, as mikes can't translate voices like that if they are too close. Still true of other larger voices.

The position of the sensation of a correctly produced note depends on the vowel and pitch; this position is an effect and is not caused by trying to squirt the voice anywhere. On low notes with certain vowels there is a slight forward feel, but this moves further back with ascent in pitch. High notes have a feeling of height and back. All this is basically "Old School" teaching as is careful vowel modification.

Corelli numero 1. Insuperabile.

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A wise student of singing should decide for himself what is important as far as having his own voice obey him and the requirements of the music. The music dictates what must be achieved. How you arrive at that takes a lot of soul searching, trial and error and the input of singers who you believe achieved their goals. There are certain qualities of a great voice that are universal. What are they? Beauty, power, vocal range, staying power, and a sense of emotional connection to the text. We have to understand that EVERY NOTE we sing is the result of our creating our physical instrument and sustaining it from note to note...phrase to phrase. Our vocal instrument is human...physical...and able to change in an instant from a glorious thrilling instrument to our everyday ordinary speaking voice. We must be able to consciously identify what is necessary to maintain our instrument in its instrumental posture so that our voice flows out in a beautiful consistent manner. That is the challenge.

Domingo is the most overestimated opera singer ever.I dont like his singing in the nosen, no focus and bad support.No attac.Bergonzi , no thank you !

The problem with great singers is that they approach teaching from their own perspective. They often think and focus on problems or areas where they experienced difficulties. Of course every singer has their own difficulties that they need to overcome. It could also lead to some other problems the teacher might think a singer is more advanced than they really are, if they can easily overcome something the teacher really struggled with, but of course it might just mean that the student has difficulties in another area. The student might be advanced through the process too quickly. A great vocal coach should be able to deal with any potential problem that might arrive. But the best bet as a student is probably to try and find a teacher that had similar issues to your own.

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You see a wide range of different views on technique in the books Divas and Tenor.

That quote by Jean de Rezke at 1:32 is something Juan Diego Florez took literally. Sadly

Voix. Impréssionante!!!BRAVO. J’aime ❤❤❤❤❤

The orchestra did him dirty at 2:24

OMG I love this video. It's brilliant. Thank you!!!!

Name music?? 😅😢❤

One of the best videos on UA-cam!

You should've replaced Carrera's quote by Pearce's "infamous" one!

_"By the end you'll see, that there's nothing that is valid for everyone."_ With the caveat that just because someone can sing, doesn't mean they understand how ther body works. You can't take them all literally. Like Stader: "breathe with the _back half_ of my lungs", which requires _magic_ to work ;) No short of "The Force", Luke. I'm sure it _feels_ like that, to her. People find the contradictions funny, but some of them may as well be an artifact of people not expressing themselves properly. People can't even agree on what "head voice" means, or any terminology. Especially when people use imaginary terms to describe their feelings - those are _not_ actually _technical_ descriptions. When two people talk about what they think their attempts at "in the mask" were, they need not necessarily actually be talking about the same thing. There is no precise assessment of anything here, just throwing around of vague concepts and feelings they or their teacher picked up somewhere, thought they understood, and henceforth used in their particular (mis)understanding. E.g. take Ponselle: She wants to be dark to make sure the throat is open. What does dark mean here? (my guess: low larynx in a non-squeezy way) And is it actually a contradiction to those wanting to notice brightness? What is the reference in each, their prior experience from which they then corrected their tone to the other? Going less "dark" than Giacomini or Kaufmann would likely be desirable. Going more dark than Florez may be desirable. And both those corrections may actually lead to the same point. Is that a contradiction? No. Just humans with vague and, implicitly, *_highly contextual_* perceptions, making imprecise / incomplete statements, often without being aware of that. Similar would be "slender tone" vs. thick, with the same examples So my hipshot claim is: there isn't as much contradiction in there than it may superficially appear. Most especially among singers who seem to claim the opposite but whom you can hear doing roughly the same thing. Then Gigli saying "every student needs his own method" - for that to make sense, it would require a definition of "method" that excludes dynamic adaptation to the current needs of a student, and is some sort of carved-in-stone sequence of things a teacher of such a "method" has his student do, no matter where they are. But if a "method" has a realistic (for purpose) model of physiology _and_ means to detect deviations from optimal setup, as well as concepts of what excercises will develop things closer towards the optimum - from wherever a student is situated, then Gigli's statement is false (for such a method). Seems to me, any "method" that can't offer that would seem to not be actually teaching at all. It's about as much teaching as slapping some recordings in front of someone, saying: "do these. see you in a year". As for "nothing that is valid for everyone.", - you don't exactly mean that anyway. You would not seriously suggest that raising the larynx, pulling the cords apart, doing weird whole body contortions or moving the head in extreme directions, ... , would be likely to be helpful for becoming a great opera singer for anyone. Then you might say: "come on, _those_ things are _obvious,_ you exaggerate". Do I? Maybe not. Maybe some things are just less commonly understood. & thus seem more up for grabs. - That Chaliapin quote about learning an opera is quite interesting. Who has that time, though :D

wow almost hard to believe Gigli smoked that much

Holy CRAP 14:54 on…. In a room of exceptional voices Kraus flew to the head of the class!! Bravo! RIP dear Alfredo ❣️

What a stupendous montage!! Thank you for all the hard work it must have taken to compile it ❣️❣️

quotes about great singing and Carreras says ... 😂😂😂

😂😂😂!!! Part 2, please !!!

6:54 if we take Carreras word for true, looking at his performances from the mid 1980s on, he wasn't getting much sex. Either that, or he claimed this before he went through leukaemia, and it really strained his voice and no matter how much sex he got, he couldn't sing as well as he did before.

I love it; it genuinely reminds me of absolutely stacked gym bros who clearly don't actually know the first thing about exercise science and contradict each other left and right. Delicious.

Lol... This shows how difficult it is to teach and learn good singing: even the greatest had no clue of how they did that... 😆

Franco later spoke against mask singing

Delicious contradictions...very funny. Thank you very much. ❤

There is no ONE technique that works for everyone. For me, I take bits and pieces of tech advice. If it works for me, I keep it, if not, I don't use it.

I love the fact that basically everyone said the contrary of each others