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This article is just a "things were better in the good old days" opera remix. Anyone who thinks you can't hear dramatic new opera singers who can project to fi
by seanhunter 2y ago
This article is just a "things were better in the good old days" opera remix.
Anyone who thinks you can't hear dramatic new opera singers who can project to fill a house and last night after night just hasn't been going to opera and listening with any sort of open mind
For example off the top of my head
Jonathan Lemalu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-HTrrOBDxQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-HTrrOBDxQ
That's a pretty big new voice right there.
Helen Charlston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19RJKnh9hbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19RJKnh9hbU
Amazing dramatic soprano with beautiful clear diction
etc etc I could think of tens of examples if I had a bit more time.
- KAMWL 2y agoThe paper talks about Verdi, Wagner, etc. The "Non piu andrai" link is Mozart, and not performed very well. In fact it supports the article. For big spinto voices search for Franco Corelli, for big dramatic voices Mario del Monaco. And these two were already at the end of the golden age. This is not a case of rose tinted glasses. It is all on YouTube and painfully evident. The article gives a couple of sane reasons: Very few people are exposed to singing in the first place these days, so talent goes unnoticed. The war on masculinity might play a role for men as well.