Placido Domingo at work 1

Part 1

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• Placido
• Domingo

[bchainz]

Singing opera is like the Olympics of singing. It takes a lot of internal support to hit such notes consistantly, especially the way Placido is vocalizing them in this video. Like any other olympic athlete, they naturally look tense because they are using all of their strength and concentration to execute with precision. If you are singing and not getting a work out, then sorry to say, you are not singing with correct support.

[shun78shun78]

wonderfull!!!!

[bchainz]

@Darkel1992 Check out my short video "Vocalizo", I use my jaw and my Maestra scolds me and you can hear me off pitch when I use it lol

[bchainz]

@Darkel1992 Exactly, when I vocalise or sing in the opera chorus Im pushing really hard to support, I just hide it well with my face, I guess Placido cant really hide his intensity as well as some of us. It does look like he uses a lot of jaw though, there is a constant with all bel canto coaches to relax the jaw. I always get busted for using my jaw, and when I do use my jaw I go off pitch, so I really gotta learn to relax it more.

[Darkel1992]

@bchainz You are surely correct. I am a classically trained singer and I can assure anyone that it takes a lot of sensoral and aural training to understand the true "art of singing."

[bchainz]

@Webarton Look up Franco Tenelli and his YouTube videos....the first half of his videos, he stresses so much on Appogio, and open throat, and dropped larinx, but in his later videos he underlines that it is up to the student to master this in his or her own way. and if that means having some "tense" looking facial expressions time to time, then so be it! Because those singers are laughing to the bank! not that this business is about money, but we all gotta eat right!

[bchainz]

@Webarton: and if you take 100 lessons from 100 teachers, you'll get 100 diffrent ideas. Bottom line, what works for you works for you, what works for Placido works for Placido, Luciano, Caballe, etc! My teacher who is 80 years old, who sang at Scala and all over Europe and sand along side Pavarotti, Caballe, Horne and more, she finally admitted to me after years of training that I have my instrument and only I can make it work. Sure there are basic fundamental ideas, but unltimately, its you

[bchainz]

@Webarton: Who said anything about sqeezing??? Placido supports how he supports, whatever his facial expression is, who gives a hoot, he is one of the most successfull and famous tenors of all time, so none of us can really say anything about it period...I have been studying Bel Canto long enough to finally understand that each and every singer has to make the "magic" of the voice work for him or her in their own way. No two singers have the same sensastions of support or placement

[Webarton]

@bchainz yeah but you never support by squeezing.

[decatlon14]

I wish that could be transalated to English

[lawrence18uk]

Er - how do you sit down, and play the piano, and sing high notes - so well!

It's difficult enough to do them standing up...

[Villazonlover1]

How can 2 people NOT like this?! :O