#classical singing

[opera-ghosts]

On January 14th, 1900 the opera "Tosca" by Giacomo Puccini was premiered in Rome.

These four original postcards were sent from Italy to a lady in Paris just three months after this event. Everything spoke of this "New" opera. A wonderful find.

#opera #classical music #music history #bel canto #composer #classical composer #aria #classical studies #classical singer #classical singing #classical musician #classical musicians #classical history #Tosca #Giacomo Puccini #Puccini #classical composers #musician #musicians #historian of music #diva #prima donna #maestro #Victorien Sardou #Sardou #La Tosca #Floria Tosca #Vissi d'arte

[sincerelystesichorus]

trans joy rant for the timeline or whatever

i don't really have anywhere else to put these thoughts and my cis friends just don't really get it and neither do my enbies because they're not medically transitioning and yeah

i've been on T for 10 months now!!

and the most grating part of my dysphoria beforehand was my voice. i have no words to describe my voice beforehand other than,, if the dysphoria didn't zap my brain every time i talked and practiced, i could've made a great gig as the next disney princess.

i've done classical singing my entire life. i was a mezzo soprano forcing myself to be an alto and chronically wishing i could be a tenor. i've never felt more jealousy in my life than when i was 16 and a girl in my choir was a contratenor. i would listen to the aladdin and little shop of horror soundtracks and just hold back tears sometimes before i was out to even myself. i just did not understand the gender envy i was experiencing from male singing. it felt like something was missing and i spent so much of my singing career wondering why i couldn't just get ahold of my voice. it's because i couldn't stand the sound of it no matter how polished it was. i still can't listen back to old clips of me talking, nonetheless singing. it's crazy because my voice has only been dropped for a few months but i can't imagine it any other way than the 2014 justin bieber prototype it's fell into. i love it.

i hope to get to a point i can be comfortable with my old voice, but the point of this post: my new voice is my favorite thing about myself. i genuinely love to hear myself talk. vocal training doesn't feel disheartening anymore. i'm a tenor now!!!!!

and even more exciting,, i just extended the bottom of my range by two notes. when fully warmed up, i can now hit down to A2 pretty consistently, it just needs work!! i am now the countratenor i was so envious over. it gets better.

#cw dysphoria discussion #its like me getting over it tho so kfsdjkd #trans #transgender #lgbtq #transmasc #gender dysphoria #ftm #vocal training #voice training #classical singing #qb rants #qb #gods i love the tumblr pride tags

[crustaceousfaggot]

Cons of Christmas as a classical singer:

Silent Night.

Silver bells.

Christmas hits medleys.

Singing at office Christmas parties.

95% of the singing you do is about Jesus because almost none of the good Christmas songs are secular.

Not Christian? Too bad. For the next month and a half you might as well be.

You have no choice but to get into the festive mood as soon as November rolls around, because all your music takes at least a month to learn.

Pros of Christmas as a classical singer:

Money.

The really weird fucked up obscure Christmas songs in horrifically warped complex minor keys.

The absolute banger of a genre that is "Medieval Christmas Drinking Songs". Potentially one of my all-time favourite musical genres. Masters In This Hall makes me want to set things on fire it's great.

I sang backup for this gay men's trio once. They did a very slutty cover of Santa Baby featuring pole dancing. That was fun.

Money

Also you occasionally come across some German song about like... bells or something, and it changes you as a person.

#classical music #classical singing #swarm's nonsense #singing tag

[tritonusx]

only practiced it for 10 hours... 🎼

#classical music #classical singing #classical music memes #tritonusx #musician meme #mezzosoprano #music #funny stuff #fyp2023

[deborahwaikapohe]

Vocals for DJ Strange

Thank you for reading my blog! I am passionate about singing with sustainable/healthy vocal technique. It isn't easy in the contemporary music world. However, the Italians showed us the way hundreds of years ago!

Here is a snippet of a recording session with House musician, DJ Strange. The sound track is a snippet of Strange’s composition ‘Matariki’; one of the tracks that I recorded with him and that he is currently editing. Using classical vocals as a basis for contemporary singing Strange’s music is an unique blend of House, Taonga Pūoro and Waiata (Song). Here is his Facebook link: Strange For this…

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#Bel Canto #bel canto technique #Classical Singing #DJ #housemusic #maori #Māori #New Zealand music #recording technique #sing #singer #taonga puoro #Taonga Pūoro #Vocal #Voice

[airblushbts]

Jeongguk using straws to help him exercise his vocals 🤧🥹😣

He's so cute and hardworking 💪

#jungkook bts #vocalist #vocalizations #bts jungkook #jeon jungkook #vocal tics #chop sticks #straws #bts #jeon jeongguk #jungkook #jungkook jeon #music studio #classical singing #notes #jeongguk #bts jk #dedication #hard work #smart work #seven #jungkook seven #jungkook solo debut #bts solo projects

[diti-15]

I made you my temple, my mural, my sky

#taylor swift #era tour #the eras tour #speak now #enchanted #classical singing

[visgrapplinghooks]

don't know if anyone cares but I just achieved a huge classical singing milestone, my range now extends to a full three octaves (D2-D5) not including falsetto

#classical singing #classical music #music #singing #vocalist #vocal training #opera #opera vocals #massive w for vis

[mlle-christine-nilsson]

#christine daaé #christina nilsson #christine nilsson #christine daae #opéra de paris #metropolitan opera #kristina nilsson #swedish nightingale #bel canto #19th century #opera #coloratura #singer #vintage photography #vintage #photography #swedish opera singer #clssical music #classical singing #opera singer #covent garden #her majesty’s theatre #composer #dramatic coloratura soprano #coloratura soprano #le fantome de l'opera #the phantom of the opera #gaston leroux #music history #carte de visite

[gch1995]

Hi! I notice you're a lover of classical/opera and a trained coloratura soprano. How did you get into the field, and how did you train? I would like to learn how to sing better, even though I don't have that range (right now I can sing down to the G/A below middle C and up to the Eb at the top of the treble clef reliably/without pain, although I'd like to improve this).

P.S. What is your favorite song you have done? :)

I have been in choirs since I was 14, and I’ve been taking private voice lessons since I was 15, so I’ve been getting professionally trained for almost 12-13 years now. However, singing turned out to be a hobby for me, rather than a profession. I wanted to do it professionally, but I realized that I really struggled with playing the piano due to a disability in my right hand. Yeah, technically, I can move that right hand, but, due to a mild prenatal stroke, I was born with Hemiplegic Spastic Cerebral Palsy. As a result, that right hand cannot be used to perform in tasks that require fine motor skills, such as writing, typing, or playing a piano. Also, I struggled with the music theory part that was required in the vocal performance major/minor. I’ve learned some basics of it, but it became difficult to learn with all the pressure of my other studies.

I ended up majoring in English and I’m working as a temp in administration and sales now. I still keep up my lessons in singing now, even though I just turned 27, because it’s always been something I’ve been good at doing. I like doing my recitals.

I think my range is technically somewhere between low F3 or Gb3 to a high F#6, so it’s the average three octave range of most trained professionals, which I’m happy with.

I think my favorite pieces that I’ve learned to sing were Una Voce Poco Fa (soprano) (The Barber of Seville), Mozart’s soprano arias, especially the Queen of the Night arias from The Magic Flute, Je Veux Vivre from Romeo et Juliette, and operetta pieces like “Poor Wandering One,” and “Glitter and Be Gay.” I like classical arias and songs that movie around a lot vocally.

I still take lessons, though with work, it has become difficult finding time to practice, aside from Friday and the weekends. The truth is that you can’t really change your natural range after puberty, unless you are someone who smokes heavily, develop vocal nodules from vocal misuse, or takes blockers, testosterone, or estrogen hormones to undergo a sex change and/or prevent pubertal development.

In general, though, for the average person, their vocal range doesn’t usually technically change after the age of 16. Certain notes can and/or will open up and and become easier or harder to access depending on your breath support (breathe from your diaphragm), your technique, your age, your posture, whether you’re on your period or not, whether you’ve been through memo how energized you are, your throat’s health, how hydrated you are, whand whether you’re on a medication that messes with your throat or not. You also just have to practice singing those notes with proper technique as much as you can, if possible.

A common misconception is that range determines what fach (type) your voice falls in, but that’s not really true either. Michael Jackson could technically hit all the way up to a soprano F6, but he was still very much a lyric tenor. In his earlier days, Elton John could hit up to a soprano high D6, but he was a tenor and baritone. Christina Aguilera can technically get up to a C7, but she’s still a mezzo soprano because her middle range is her vocal sweet spot, not her upper range. Renee Fleming, Kristen Chenoweth, Kathleen Battle, Sarah Brightman, and Mariah Carey’s vocal sweet spot is in their upper range, so even though some of them may be

#singing #classical singing #opera #musical theater #I’ve been getting professionally trained for like almost 12 years now

[gillianwormley]

Voice-works Summer Study Weekend for solo classical singers

The last of the four seasonal Voice-works Study Weekends offered to solo singers during this academic year, will happen next month, in June. Application deadline: midnight on Friday 13 May. A rather swift turnaround this time 🙂 ... but! It will be worth it!

These events are great fun and truly deliver on all promises.

Let me start by saying that I am very grateful for the opportunity to participate online, and I have got very used to it and the use of the technology. It has been an amazing way of attending workshops through lockdown, restrictions on travel and family difficulties. I would recommend it to anyone who feels they wish to attend a workshop, but cannot do it in person, for whatever reason. I cannot pretend the experience is the same as in person, but the current use of technology and organisation certainly helps produce an inclusive atmosphere. Sue Lewey, soprano

Everyone comes to the weekend bringing something in terms of enthusiasm, knowledge, experience, emerging vocal skills and a willingness to share; which in turn feeds the system and creates a wonderful ‘well-being’ synergy of experience. The true heart of the group ecosystem is the people - the singers - each with a desire to share and absorb, wherever they are in their learning experience.

The weekend brings home to me that, when learning songs, I might need to identify more clearly the demands of each piece in terms of joining up the musicianship patterns, the words, and how I feel about the song, with a view of bringing more stability in performance so that I can dare even more! It's an exciting whole new learning curve ahead! Sophie Bierens de Haan, mezzosoprano

Study Weekend places are always limited to a maximum of 6 (4 residential, 2 virtual) participating singers to ensure enough singing and performance opportunity is given to each participant.

The application and booking links for the Summer Study Weekend are still LIVE until Friday 13 May. You can add your details, make your payment and claim your actual/virtual place. We will give you a very warm welcome to Church Farmhouse, actually and virtually!

More details: www.littlesoprano.co.uk/workshopevents

#singingmatters #classical singing #weekendcourses #performance techniques #learning #love your voice #solo singers #littlesopranoandthevoiceschool

[opera-ghosts]

Here a picture of Nanny Larsen-Todsén as Brünnhilde inside “her sisters” Walküres. Bayreuth 1927

#opera #classical music #music history #bel canto #composer #classical composer #aria #classical studies #classical singer #metropolitan opera #met #classical singing #classical history #classical musicans #classical musicians #musician #musicians #chest voice #diva #prima donna #maestro #historian of music #Nanny Larsen-Todsen #soprano #dramatic soprano #Royal Swedish Opera #La Scala #Paris Opera #Richard Wagner #Wagner

[precipiceofgreatness]

Today I am working on memorizing the first two pages of Strauss’ “Die Nacht” Op. 10, No. 3

“Out of the woods treads the night,

out of the trees she gently steals,

she looks around in a wide circle,

now, be careful.

All the lights of this world,

all flowers, all colors,

she erases them and steals the sheaves

away from the field.”

“Aus dem Walde tritt die Nacht,

Aus den Bäumen schleicht sie leise,

Schaut sich um in weitem Kreise,

Nun gib acht.

Alle Lichter dieser Welt,

Alle Blumen, alle Farben

Löscht sie aus und stiehlt die Garben

Weg vom Feld.”

This is a fairly simple piece of lieder but very beautiful. It reminds me of a girl that I recently became friends with. I am using a YouTube video breaking down the German diction of the song to help with pronunciation.

#studyspo #music major #sheet music #lieder #richard strauss #poetry #classical singing #german #practicespo #musician

[crustaceousfaggot]

If you're not sure, just take your best guess.

Also, for those who care, we're going with choral voice typing here because I think it makes more sense to the average person than operatic voice typing. And I don't wanna try and explain Fächer to Tumblr Dot Com. So... If you're a Mezzo, but (like most mezzos) sing Alto in a choral setting, then go with Alto.

I'm also aware that proper voice typing can take years, and that many people get assigned, say, Soprano in middle school choir, and then don't keep up with singing for long enough to allow their voice to mature and settle. Like... this poll isn't gonna be an actual indicator of the distribution of adult voice types, and that's fine.

#poll #polls #singing #classical singing

[tritonusx]

everyone has that ONE composer 🎼...

#classical music #classical singing #classical music memes #tritonusx #musician meme #mezzosoprano

[deborahwaikapohe]

Guitar & Voice Recitals

This post is about my guitar and voice recitals. It has a 3 minute video of my April 7th, 2024, performance at Futuna Chapel in Wellington, New Zealand.

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#Aotearoa #Bel Canto #bel canto technique #Classical Singing #Guitar #maori #Māori #New Zealand #Old Italian School #opera #originalmusic #self accompanied #taonga puoro #Taonga Pūoro #taongapūoro #Vocal #Voice