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RE: Not "operatic"

Posted by Bill Way (A) on April 6, 2019 at 05:37:13

In Reply to: RE: Not "operatic" posted by RGA on April 6, 2019 at 04:54:32:

I think we can agree to disagree on this. She is classically trained and has sung lieder. It's certainly a pretty voice. But she sings with microphones and amplifiers. If you can't sing opera, unamplified, in an opera house, you're probably not an opera singer. You may be a great singer and a great performer, but you're not an opera singer.

So she ends up, for me, in that gray space with Andrea Bocelli. Classically trained, beautiful voice, good technique, and completely miscast in an opera house. (His attempts were disasters.) If you can't sing opera in an opera house, it's a stretch to call yourself an opera singer. Still, Bocelli was so good that Tony Bennett went to *him* to record their duets in his Tuscan home.

There's nothing magical about being an opera singer. It's just different from pop singing, and pop singing becomes a little different when done by a performer with classical training. Sometimes that's good, as here, and sometimes it's awful, like "Placido Sings the Broadway I Love."

FWIW, the Met broadcast today is Tosca, with Jennifer Rowley, Joseph Calleja, and Wolfgang Koch conducted by Carlo Rizzi. I think it's pre-recorded. The consistently best-sounding link for the broadcasts I've found is below. It starts at 1pm Eastern time.

Cheers,
WW
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Edits: 04/06/19

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