She's telling the girl (repeatedly) to inhale and take the breath that LEADS the eventual note. The girl is trying to take the breath and sing the note at the same time, thus screaming, rather than having enough breath support to produce a well supported sound.
She is incredibly patient. She is trying again and again and again without even shouting at her or showing any sign of tedium. That's a real MASTER CLASS and for free!!! What else can we ask for? EXTRAORDINARY Montserrat Caballé:-) Long life to the diva who is not a diva but an amazing and beautiful HUMAN BEING.
whoever this girl is, shes got beeeaauutiful ankles and feet.!!... Id pay to see her just wave her legs around.........and no, im not a perve. credit where due. xx
It is sad that she is not explaining this well. She is talking about the AIR going up. She said first the breath then the sound. It has nothing to do with pulling the abdomen up, but rather releasing the air up. The singer's job in proper appoggiare is to hold out against the pull in and that balance is appoggiare. But the air should always lead the sound.
@Cissy97 That is true that she isn't an English speaker, but if she cannot explain it well then it is better not to confuse the girl. I don't know Auger or Grist. What students of theirs can I listen to?
La Superba is lovely, but here, she is a rigorous professional. Oh no don't get her flailing that fan around! I'd be so terribly frightened of her, even though she's sweet as can be...
SEEMS LIKE MONTSERRAT IS NOT THAT GREAT AT PEDAGOGY (that s ALL I m saying here folks)... the poor girl really is trying her best but is not really given the explanation nor the tools she needs to give Montserrat what she wants! I was therefor a bit disappointed since CABALLÉ is still one of my top fave opera singers!
@miuzefreak She is focusing, within a limited time frame, on one very particular sequence, namely the necessary adjustment of breath energy for higher frequencies. It makes the tiniest difference in this particular case, but she could hear that there was slightly too much work happening in the throat to compensate for breath energy which was slightly (to most of us imperceptibly) too late. She cannot be a proponent of abdominal thrusting. She couldn't have sung as she did if that were the case.
J'étais certain d'avoir une réaction immédiate de quelqu'un. Si vous le permettez, on avoir une opinion différente de la vôtre. J'ai souvent vu Montserrat Caballé, formidale de 1965 jusqu'à la Sémiramide d'Aix en 1980 et la Turandot de Paris en 1981. Ensuite, j'ai plutôt vu quelqu'un qui, encore jeune pourtant, avait perdu sa voix -sans l'avoir sacrifée par sens du
jeu dramatique- , sa dignité artistique et semblait uniquement penser aux dollars...
Où l'on apprend qu'une cantatrice qui a fait n'importe quoi depuis 30 ans, et qui est l'exemple même de la facilité commerciale à éviter (nonobstant son immense talent en début de carrière), donne désormais des master class.... Jeune filles, prennez des exemples ailleurs, sauf si vous voulez finir à la Star Ac !
@levieuxpiano elle avait l'une des plus grandes voix de sa génération. Il n'est pas surprenant que cette génération veut apprendre d'elle. Elle est une grande dame, un caractère chaleureux qui continue d'inspirer encore aujourd'hui !!
I could see on her face she wasn't pleased by what the girl was doing, but she waited until it was not pleasant enough to ask her to stop what she was doing
@Remalia19 She means that the breath has to come before the sound. The note must be supported by the air to give it resonance. Unsupported notes sound "screamy" and do not project. If you are singing in a huge theatre you have to ensure that you are audible and this is how she is explaining to do it. You have to use the diaphragm to support the sound xx hope that helps
@emf1918 Well, you helped a lot but that's the first time I hear that the breath must come before you start to sing the note. And it's said by Caballe, who has a very solid technique. The thing that complicates me is that after the girl breathes, Montserrat pushes her belly. That way a lot of air escapes and her ribcage collapses, ha? But to support you have to prevent the ribcage to collapse. Am I right or not?
@Remalia19 It is clearer in some of the other videos what she is trying to achieve. The pushing is to remind them which muscles support the breath and thus the sound. This girl did not fully grasp the concept.
@Remalia19 Not exactly, she is emphasising where the support comes from which is the diaphragm the band of muscle that is the key to the support of the sound. Lungs full of air are one thing but to control and produce the sound, be it powerful or piano, then the diaphragm is the key.
@emf1918 So, just to be clear, what you are saying is that after the full breath, the singer pushes out with the area of the epigastrium while sustaining the tone, right?
@Remalia19 - yes classic appoggio technique. Expanded rib cage and a downwardly compressed diaphragm. The girl here is not compressing before she sings - she is singing then compressing. That is why in her earlier scales her voice sounds harsh and unbalanced.
@joaopedro12 - practice hissing air like a leaking tire. Hiss air out your front teeth slowly than swell to a louder hiss and feel the process of what is happening in your body. You should feel a tightening of the abdomen first then air comes out through your teeth. That is the proper breath cycle of exhaling for singing. Pressing down of the diaphragm first then air goes up through the body, through the vocal folds and out your mouth.
@RocktheStageNYC Oh thanks for your answer i actually have been to your channel ahah. Yah i do that it's more stress and gets all messy, a porutguese word, atabalhoado lol thanks i just think we should be aware cheers
@Serinia4melodic - pure appoggio dictates a pulled in stomach for the whole phrase but I have found you can achieve to the same solidness of support without pulling in the stomach so harshly. Unless you are singing very long phrases on one breath you don't need to pull it up at all. The power comes from the rectus abdominus muscles, obliques and pelvic diaphragm area. In simpler terms, the muscles to your sides and in the mid and small of your back.
@RocktheStageNYC Thank you, so after tightening the mid and side muscles and expanding them outwards, can I pull them slowly throughout the phrase inward? Or can they remaind pulled outwards?
@Serinia4melodic - they remain pressed outward. Pulling them in defeats the purpose of pressing them outward as that is what creates the compression on the diaphrag sending the pressure upward toward the lungs in a controlled manner.
@maudale It is "Ebben, Ne Andrò Lontana" from La Wally and if you want to hear how it should be sung I've uploaded a version by La Superba herself!! Vocal perfection!!
@Jeanne90275 She didn't sing the whole aria, Montserrat stopped her at this point. I will be uploading another clip with another singer who did sing it though, in fact she went on to sing it at the final concert on the Thursday.
She's telling the girl (repeatedly) to inhale and take the breath that LEADS the eventual note. The girl is trying to take the breath and sing the note at the same time, thus screaming, rather than having enough breath support to produce a well supported sound.
jmiller05 7 hours ago
She is incredibly patient. She is trying again and again and again without even shouting at her or showing any sign of tedium. That's a real MASTER CLASS and for free!!! What else can we ask for? EXTRAORDINARY Montserrat Caballé:-) Long life to the diva who is not a diva but an amazing and beautiful HUMAN BEING.
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kakurangers1993 2 weeks ago
whoever this girl is, shes got beeeaauutiful ankles and feet.!!... Id pay to see her just wave her legs around.........and no, im not a perve. credit where due. xx
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VeraChud 1 month ago
Спасибо!
VeraChud 1 month ago
she iz incredibly clear about what is asking ... the girl had a wrong technique
antoniomoreirarr 1 month ago
It is sad that she is not explaining this well. She is talking about the AIR going up. She said first the breath then the sound. It has nothing to do with pulling the abdomen up, but rather releasing the air up. The singer's job in proper appoggiare is to hold out against the pull in and that balance is appoggiare. But the air should always lead the sound.
MrCafiero 1 month ago 2
@MrCafiero Ponselle said, "always push the abdomen out during the whole phrase, not in."
MrCafiero 1 month ago
@MrCafiero
You are clearer. But Monserrat is no English speaker.
The girl is messing up the breath - 'sucking in' the breath as she emisses the 'sound'.
Caballe does say many times that the air should come before the sound.
That's clear enough.
I am so luck to have a vocal teacher that teaches the same thing as Monserrat!
(My teacher learned from Arleen Auger and Reri Grist).
Cissy97 1 week ago
@Cissy97 That is true that she isn't an English speaker, but if she cannot explain it well then it is better not to confuse the girl. I don't know Auger or Grist. What students of theirs can I listen to?
MrCafiero 1 week ago
2:20 MC dice muy amable y seria..."No quiero un grito, quiero una nota...", pero en el 2:30 le sacaron los choros del canasto jajajajjajajjajajaja
waldotube 1 month ago
does she still gives classes and where i need a class or two lol
18aaronjames 1 month ago
La Superba is lovely, but here, she is a rigorous professional. Oh no don't get her flailing that fan around! I'd be so terribly frightened of her, even though she's sweet as can be...
Rhopoe 1 month ago
SEEMS LIKE MONTSERRAT IS NOT THAT GREAT AT PEDAGOGY (that s ALL I m saying here folks)... the poor girl really is trying her best but is not really given the explanation nor the tools she needs to give Montserrat what she wants! I was therefor a bit disappointed since CABALLÉ is still one of my top fave opera singers!
miuzefreak 1 month ago
@miuzefreak She is focusing, within a limited time frame, on one very particular sequence, namely the necessary adjustment of breath energy for higher frequencies. It makes the tiniest difference in this particular case, but she could hear that there was slightly too much work happening in the throat to compensate for breath energy which was slightly (to most of us imperceptibly) too late. She cannot be a proponent of abdominal thrusting. She couldn't have sung as she did if that were the case.
Hypatiarhetoric 1 month ago
Pourquoi elle crie ?????
joanabanyeres 2 months ago
J'étais certain d'avoir une réaction immédiate de quelqu'un. Si vous le permettez, on avoir une opinion différente de la vôtre. J'ai souvent vu Montserrat Caballé, formidale de 1965 jusqu'à la Sémiramide d'Aix en 1980 et la Turandot de Paris en 1981. Ensuite, j'ai plutôt vu quelqu'un qui, encore jeune pourtant, avait perdu sa voix -sans l'avoir sacrifée par sens du
jeu dramatique- , sa dignité artistique et semblait uniquement penser aux dollars...
levieuxpiano 2 months ago
Où l'on apprend qu'une cantatrice qui a fait n'importe quoi depuis 30 ans, et qui est l'exemple même de la facilité commerciale à éviter (nonobstant son immense talent en début de carrière), donne désormais des master class.... Jeune filles, prennez des exemples ailleurs, sauf si vous voulez finir à la Star Ac !
levieuxpiano 2 months ago
@levieuxpiano elle avait l'une des plus grandes voix de sa génération. Il n'est pas surprenant que cette génération veut apprendre d'elle. Elle est une grande dame, un caractère chaleureux qui continue d'inspirer encore aujourd'hui !!
emf1918 2 months ago
Montserrat looks great! Thinner and younger! And always nice and kind.
sirdicaudore 2 months ago
What is the aria the girl is singing?
cizzam21 3 months ago
@cizzam21 It is "Ebben, Ne Andrò Lontana" from La Wally
emf1918 3 months ago
If I was her I would tell the girl.
Do you have a vocal teacher?
girl: Yes
MC: Do you have a gun, if you don't I let you borrow mine...
Girl: ok, what am I suppose to do now?
MC: Shoot your voice teacher and after shoot yourself lol
RonaldBarone 3 months ago
I could see on her face she wasn't pleased by what the girl was doing, but she waited until it was not pleasant enough to ask her to stop what she was doing
RonaldBarone 3 months ago
@RonaldBarone
LOL... yeah, her facial expressions tell a lot.
blackeneddove 3 months ago
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TheWisemonkey8 4 months ago
Can anyone explain to me what does Montserrat say? What does 'put the breath up' mean?
Remalia19 5 months ago
@Remalia19 She means that the breath has to come before the sound. The note must be supported by the air to give it resonance. Unsupported notes sound "screamy" and do not project. If you are singing in a huge theatre you have to ensure that you are audible and this is how she is explaining to do it. You have to use the diaphragm to support the sound xx hope that helps
emf1918 5 months ago
@emf1918 Well, you helped a lot but that's the first time I hear that the breath must come before you start to sing the note. And it's said by Caballe, who has a very solid technique. The thing that complicates me is that after the girl breathes, Montserrat pushes her belly. That way a lot of air escapes and her ribcage collapses, ha? But to support you have to prevent the ribcage to collapse. Am I right or not?
Remalia19 5 months ago
@Remalia19 It is clearer in some of the other videos what she is trying to achieve. The pushing is to remind them which muscles support the breath and thus the sound. This girl did not fully grasp the concept.
emf1918 5 months ago
@emf1918 So Caballe's pushing her stomach in order to make the girl keep her ribcage open?
Remalia19 5 months ago
@Remalia19 Not exactly, she is emphasising where the support comes from which is the diaphragm the band of muscle that is the key to the support of the sound. Lungs full of air are one thing but to control and produce the sound, be it powerful or piano, then the diaphragm is the key.
emf1918 5 months ago
@emf1918 Oh, I can't thank you enough!
Remalia19 5 months ago
@emf1918 is Montserrat trying to get her to push her diaphragm back out against her hand when she pushes or to get her to pull it in and up?
thespian547 4 months ago
@thespian547 The diaphragm is pulled up to support the sound, at least that's what I understood watching her with the various participants x
emf1918 4 months ago
@emf1918 So, just to be clear, what you are saying is that after the full breath, the singer pushes out with the area of the epigastrium while sustaining the tone, right?
rovingdesertfox 2 months ago
@Remalia19 - yes classic appoggio technique. Expanded rib cage and a downwardly compressed diaphragm. The girl here is not compressing before she sings - she is singing then compressing. That is why in her earlier scales her voice sounds harsh and unbalanced.
RocktheStageNYC 3 months ago
@RocktheStageNYC omg i so do this all the time!!! i get rigity in the abdominal. this erros are fatal to get right after so many times arghhh
joaopedro12 3 months ago
@joaopedro12 - practice hissing air like a leaking tire. Hiss air out your front teeth slowly than swell to a louder hiss and feel the process of what is happening in your body. You should feel a tightening of the abdomen first then air comes out through your teeth. That is the proper breath cycle of exhaling for singing. Pressing down of the diaphragm first then air goes up through the body, through the vocal folds and out your mouth.
RocktheStageNYC 3 months ago
@RocktheStageNYC Oh thanks for your answer i actually have been to your channel ahah. Yah i do that it's more stress and gets all messy, a porutguese word, atabalhoado lol thanks i just think we should be aware cheers
joaopedro12 3 months ago
@RocktheStageNYC ANd during the phrase it remains like that? Or can you slowly pull it inward?
Serinia4melodic 2 months ago
@Serinia4melodic - pure appoggio dictates a pulled in stomach for the whole phrase but I have found you can achieve to the same solidness of support without pulling in the stomach so harshly. Unless you are singing very long phrases on one breath you don't need to pull it up at all. The power comes from the rectus abdominus muscles, obliques and pelvic diaphragm area. In simpler terms, the muscles to your sides and in the mid and small of your back.
RocktheStageNYC 2 months ago
@RocktheStageNYC Thank you, so after tightening the mid and side muscles and expanding them outwards, can I pull them slowly throughout the phrase inward? Or can they remaind pulled outwards?
Serinia4melodic 2 months ago
@Serinia4melodic - they remain pressed outward. Pulling them in defeats the purpose of pressing them outward as that is what creates the compression on the diaphrag sending the pressure upward toward the lungs in a controlled manner.
RocktheStageNYC 2 months ago
@emf1918
What is she singing at the end??? thanks!
maudale 4 months ago
@maudale It is "Ebben, Ne Andrò Lontana" from La Wally and if you want to hear how it should be sung I've uploaded a version by La Superba herself!! Vocal perfection!!
emf1918 4 months ago
"I don't want a scream, I want a note.:-) This singer
has a beautiful voice...even if Montserrat can't get
her to breathe properly. Montse is so sweet, even
in her criticism. It doesn't surprise me a bit that she
does this for free...she never forgot the people who
helped her, and she believes in giving back, I wish
they had taped the who aria...one of my favorites.
Jeanne90275 5 months ago 2
@Jeanne90275 She didn't sing the whole aria, Montserrat stopped her at this point. I will be uploading another clip with another singer who did sing it though, in fact she went on to sing it at the final concert on the Thursday.
emf1918 5 months ago