Giulio Neri - La Calunnia - Il barbieri di Siviglia - Rossini

[lyricaccademy]

Quanto sei straordinario!!!!!TI AMO!!!!!!Mezzosoprano Nicoletta Ciliento.

[66cecilia]

ad oggi imbattuto!!

[HellasItalia4]

......mostruoso.......

Assolutamente una dalle 3 "calunnie" piu belle!

Occhio alla tonalita....... Non è in Do......

[bassoassoluto]

Mamma mia....GRANDE !!!

[bodiloto]

Immortale !

[linguine99]

I'd like to mention that this darkest, heaviest of basses is singing the aria at the original pitch, a semitone HIGHER than is sung today. Holy. Crap.

[omarihardy]

@linguine99

I like the period after the "Holy"...much more effective than the seamless Holy Crap lol

[bassovoice]

Exactly. When I understood it my voice started to come out and I don't have to think about it anymore. :-)

If vowel e is clear (not between e and o, a mixture) then the true color of the voice comes out.

[MrCafiero]

That is right. The balance of darkness (scuro which is falsetto and larynx lowering) and "brightness" (chiaro which is squillante/core from lower register) and the vowel being clear gives the truest sound. So many are woofy or overly bright or have modified vowels.  ICK!LOL!

[bassovoice]

Tito Schipa says: You should sing like you talk. And I learned that if I make vowels (a,e, etc.) darker (so that it is not clear a or e), it makes the color of your voice and the voice come out as it is (naturally). That's what I have learned so far. :-) Maybe we could get opinion of maestro Shore about this matter?

[MrCafiero]

The mastery comes in how to make the voice dark *AND* clear (chiaroscuro) and that comes through registration work. That includes keeping the vowels clear even though the sound is dark. The falsetto is dark as it has only a max of two overtones while the lower register gives the squillante. It is training to coordinate both while keeping fine vowels. Many sing "thick" which is dark in the way that distorts the vowel clarity and that is wrong. Or they sing woofy an that too is fake darkness.

[caribolas]

I agree that this is overly simplified, and singing is not like speaking. The shape of your vowels depends on your placement, register, etc. Schipa had a tiny voice, never stressed his instrument, had a short top and above the passaggio he screams: completely different from Mardones. He was one of the most refined singers I heard but is not an example of perfect emission in some senses.

[caribolas]

different from Neri here, I mean. Sorry ;)

[sobchakdrums]

is he really doing this at written pitch?! thats frick insane. its sooo good

[robertwbecker]

WOW. Totally speech based singing. He's able to take complete verbal action with the language. ! Would have loved to have heard this guy!!! What a sound

[MrCafiero]

What do you mean by "speech based singing"? That the vowels are clear?

[bassovoice]

Singing is like speaking plus the melody says Schipa.

[MrCafiero]

That is overly simplified but I understand his point which is that the vowels should be clear.