Comments on: The art of the coloratura soprano https://thenewneo.com/2017/04/26/the-art-of-the-coloratura-soprano/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 28 Apr 2017 08:17:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Ben David https://thenewneo.com/2017/04/26/the-art-of-the-coloratura-soprano/#comment-2200417 Fri, 28 Apr 2017 08:17:15 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=68298#comment-2200417 This singer is impressive but still needs some work. Typically of young singers, she is approaching each musical figure separately, with breaths between. The composer gave her a nice long, spiraling musical line: it takes a lot of breath support and a fine legato to “sing through” and link it all up into one flow.

There is also not much variation of color – the lyric is suitable for a young singer, not really demanding drama or depth. And not even romantic in its meaning, although she strikes a flirtatious attitude at some points. But a more experienced singer would perhaps shift the color a bit more to suit the meaning and/or for variation.

This is similar to the male ballet dancer about whom you posted – whose leaps were quite impressive, but who somehow didn’t link the gymnastics up into an expressive line… music has to do that too…

]]> By: Les https://thenewneo.com/2017/04/26/the-art-of-the-coloratura-soprano/#comment-2200256 Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:05:45 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=68298#comment-2200256 I found Natalie Dessay’s mad scene from I Puritani ( the Met Opera HD broadcast) to be very chilling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92jiitUEahg

]]> By: DNW https://thenewneo.com/2017/04/26/the-art-of-the-coloratura-soprano/#comment-2199976 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:58:44 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=68298#comment-2199976 Hey, isn’t that first one the ditty they used to play in 1940s cartoons and old comic movies? Maybe in those old 1930’s costume dramas played on TV too. The ones that became unwatchable as you began to realize that those sneering pansy guys were not really going to shoot and chop and use cannons on each other.

Anyway, didn’t know I had absorbed so much culture.

And yes, she’s good.

You have highlighted some pretty amazing young talent recently. Interestingly, some of it by Slavic performers who seemingly have not gotten the word that symphonic music, melody, and even classic jazz age tunes and standards, are now verboten.

]]> By: Christy https://thenewneo.com/2017/04/26/the-art-of-the-coloratura-soprano/#comment-2199975 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:45:53 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=68298#comment-2199975 Neo and arfldgr, I don’t know music well, but my son keeps telling me about Pentatonix. May I have your opinions? Although he is rarely a featured singer, as his beatboxing often serves as background to whoever sings the lyrics, Kevin is said to have the broadest range of the group.

]]> By: Brian Swisher https://thenewneo.com/2017/04/26/the-art-of-the-coloratura-soprano/#comment-2199732 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 06:23:27 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=68298#comment-2199732 It’s the fault of the motion picture “Topsy Turvy”, but I now can’t think of “Les Oiseaux” without seeibg Sullivan disporting himself in a French brothel.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2017/04/26/the-art-of-the-coloratura-soprano/#comment-2199682 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 03:17:30 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=68298#comment-2199682 One hint about the ongoing blog glitch:

I’ve discovered that if you force a cache refresh by pressing CTL + F5, you can usually make the blog display the comments and the posts properly. Let me know if you see the most recent posts when you do that.

All you computer experts or semi-experts out there, do you have any advice for fixing things, based on this new information? I’m still getting professionals to help, but they’re taking longer than I’d like.

]]> By: TommyJay https://thenewneo.com/2017/04/26/the-art-of-the-coloratura-soprano/#comment-2199626 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:05:44 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=68298#comment-2199626 My wife and I saw Fidelio and Aida at the Met. Opera a couple weeks ago. Aida solidly hits all the bases of what constitutes a great opera. But I enjoyed Fidelio the most even though it is much more boring visually.

Beethoven treats the orchestra more as a primary voice, rather than just accompaniment, I think. Leonora’s aria in the 1st act is interesting because it really is a duet with the French horns. First one horn, then two, and finally the whole section of 4 horns working as the second voice.

I saw ArtF put The Queen of the Night at the top the top of his list, which to my untrained ear is the pinnacle of the operatic soprano. I had forgotten that there is a little coloratura in her aria just before that amazing arpeggio.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2017/04/26/the-art-of-the-coloratura-soprano/#comment-2199608 Wed, 26 Apr 2017 23:23:54 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=68298#comment-2199608 By the way, I published another long post about 3 hours ago (as of the writing of this comment, which is at around 7:25 PM). It hasn’t displayed yet, although it is published. It’s about Obama and Iran, and the new article at Politico. I’m wondering whether anyone is seeing it yet.

]]> By: richardaubrey https://thenewneo.com/2017/04/26/the-art-of-the-coloratura-soprano/#comment-2199604 Wed, 26 Apr 2017 23:14:50 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=68298#comment-2199604 She’s king of young. II hope her pipes are up to it and she doesn’t blow them out and end up a second-tier voice teacher. There are stories of child phenoms who ended up kind of ruined.
The Russians push pretty hard. Neo showed us some pseudo ballet whose moves required some kind of hip dysplasia just to start.
The Red Army Chorus has a piece on youtube doing the Battle Hymn of The Republic. At the end you have to wonder if the sound is the arrangements or some tenors tearing their throats out. Or perhaps tenors with a million miles on what have become, for all intents, brass.

]]> By: CV https://thenewneo.com/2017/04/26/the-art-of-the-coloratura-soprano/#comment-2199587 Wed, 26 Apr 2017 22:37:05 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=68298#comment-2199587 I once lived across the street from a coloratura soprano opera singer. She would often practice at home (when she wasn’t traveling to performances around the world) . On warm summer days, when the windows were open or we were outside in the yard, her powerful voice would float through the neighborhood. Such a gift (for her, and those of us within earshot).

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