The High C - making it sound easy(?)

The Fisherman is the third tenor part in William Tell. The lead tenor role of Arnold is so difficult that when Gedda cancelled a decade or two ago the impresario needed three different tenors to fill in. It is literally a killer role. Nouritt, the first Arnold, ended up killing himself attempting to master the "High C from the Chest" technique.

The Fisherman also has to sing high Cs. Presumably these were originally sung in falsetto. Today even compremario tenors are expected to sing the top Cs without resorting to falsetto.

Here a very obscure tenor sings those Cs "from the chest" but the adjustments are only too obvious. In this performance Arnold is sung by a much better tenor - Fisichella.

Just having a High C doesn't make you a star.

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Music

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• Willam
• Tell
• Rossi
• Fisherman
• Quartet

[Agorante]

@violetavalery It isn't an aria. It's a scene starts with this tenor arioso that develops into a quintet. There are are some people who don't appreciate Rossini. The technical term for such people is ignorant fool.

[Agorante]

@Arfat Some mean exactly that. Their thinking is confused. If they are confused enough they open up their own studio and become a voice teacher.

[andrewliam123]

I think he sang it well tbh

[TheVengador60]

It is simply horrible,everything is horrible

The pronuntation,the high note is a cry like a wounded dog and in top of that hemoves around like a drunkar after a fight in the local bar.

[eddiesamuel1]

What do you guys think of MY High C?

[fluffytom82]

@AtariMaxiToriyama I didn't say that. Many singers sing beautifully, but are not opera singers. I'm just saying that the guy in de video is screaming, not singing, and that some styles of music, like gospel and heavy metal, are more like screaming than singing.

The guy in the video pretended "singing a high C at the opera" is easy, but he failed miserably.

[AtariMaxiToriyama]

@fluffytom82 Ah hah, and now the whole argument has become futile.

You basically believe that, unless one sings operatically, then he is not singing, he's screaming.

I disagree.

End of discussion, really.

[JWeb4U]

@JKFCUMLANDDOWNUNDER I don't think it's possible to mix a high C. Like I said, I'm not talking about mixing head and falsetto or chest and falsetto I'm talking using the males pure head voice (which if done right and not in falsetto sounds like 'belting'). Singing a high C is crazy hard and I couldn't imagine bringing even a little of my chest up that far. Notes like F sharp-B flat can be mixed but C seems crazy to bother mixing. There's not really a need to mix anyway that high up if done right

[JKFCUMLANDDOWNUNDER]

@JWeb4U It's actually a mix voice, a mixture of both head and chest.

[fluffytom82]

@Agorante *lol* I just work there, but the space in these comments is limited so I put "my opera house" in stead of "the opera house where I work at" because that's shorter :)

[Agorante]

@fluffytom82 You have your own Opera House? My compliments. My great and good friend Marvin had his own opera house. He converted an old school house into a combination personal home and a public opera house. The Green Room connected to the living area on one side and the auditorium on the other.

[fluffytom82]

@Agorante Ok, but the discussion was this AtariMaxi-guy saying that singing a high C is not that difficult and that he could sing 50 of them without problem. I replied to him that he was screaming, not singing.

And I see your point about rock and gospel, but we are still talking about opera. If you sing one note - not even a high C - as Rose or Osbourne in my opera house, you're out in a second. Even if they are the best in their "style".