OPERA WANNABEES

I attended 2 concerts this weekend, an opera and a recital, and...............

Distressed, I am, to hear such puny singing this weekend. I cannot believe that today's singers are so technically poor. Surprising, but these singers think they are great! This is a mystery to me.

I grew up in the 50s and 60's and at that time, opera singers SANG WITH HUGE VOICES, and it was wonderful. I can still hear Birgit Nilsson singing Brunhilde at the Metropolitan Opera! Omygod! That was a voice! Now, these small, "instant voices", as I call them, are all over the stages of the world. I refer to "instant voices" as to those singers who study for a few short years and by pushing or "hurrying" the process of really learning how to sing, their teachers produce tiny constricted voices. Although the singer is working hard to produce a sound, all that he/she can muster is a mezzo forte! One can only hear them if they are electronically amplified.

These puny sounds permeate the operatic world. Whats wrong with the General Managers of Opera? They are hiring young singers with tiny voices who really have no business gracing the operatic stages of the world.

This weekend was a bust. I'm bored with tiny voices trying to sing opera. I say, go to a voice teacher who know something about singing and learn how to sing with a low larynx and some chest register connection. Operatic singing is not pop or Broadway singing. Wake up, people!