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Divas Discuss Chest Voice (Hint: They're against it")

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  • I want to reincarnate in Leyla Gencer, please

  • "This from them?"--CLASSIC!

    By the way, it seems like the interviewer is against chest voice also, because he speaks in falsetto the entire time.

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  • Leyla Gencer = Goddess.

  • Winne the pooh? LOL the guy sound like him lol

  • Calling the lower register 'chest voice' is a misnomer. Both male and female have two registers. Some keep them seperate and others learn to mix them favoring one register or the other. But to give the name 'chest voice' to the lower distorts what it is. They are both produced in the throat and resonated in the throat and mask.

  • One would imagine a castrato sounding like this interviewer. But I thought they were extinct!

    Regarding "voce di petto"......."Maschera", singing in the mask is a matter of placement. Petto, is the register and quality of sound which still needs to be in the mask.

  • You're right. The interviewer has a horrible (my opinion) femi voice. But very interesting program.

    Great ladies.

    morten b

  • The interviewer is Stefan Zucker. Check him out on Wiki.

  • I love Carla Gavazzi in this interview. She speaks so authentic, her words coming straight from her heart.

  • @mrbouncelol So bizarre.

  • What the hell is wrong with the interviewers voice? Doesn't use the speech mode but still laughs so heartily?

  • @tetrazzini You take the first reincarnation, I take the next. deal ? :D

  • Obviously "voce di petto" to the italian operatic singers is not what English speakers call "chest voice". A case of semantics not of technique. Most Pop music singers sing in "voce di petto" - opera singers don't because the voice is always placed "in maschera" (forward placement) as Simionato explained and clearly demonstrated. These artists showed great patience and grace with the interviewer.

  • so they just disagree on the definition of chest voice. this debate is becoming extremely boring. define your words clearly and then you can have a discussion. (I'm telling this to the people in the video, not the readers)

  • Chest voice is not Low voice

    Chest Voice are low,medium,High notes but With resonance in the chest, Womans Can do it but some girls find it difficult.

  • These veteran/retired opera singers hate chest voice and go as far as saying "it doesn't exist". Nonsense. It was used by Maria Callas, Leonie Rysanek, Montserrat Caballe, Leontyne Price, Grace Bumbry & Shirley Verrett. It exists in both soprano & mezzo soprano ranges. It was written into the score of operas as Norma, Lucrezia, Bolena, Deveraux, Trovatore, Macbeth, Forza, Nabucco, even Tosca. Their singing sounded like men, baritones, basses, that deep lol

  • It's amazing how people misinterpret what chest voice is lol

    What was Fedora demonstrating? what chest voice really is, not what people think it is

  • I had to chuckle when almost all of the women in the clip reacted to the phrase "chest voice" as if the interviewer had cursed at them.

  • @tristanchord85 - in filipino we say..."impakta"!! she-devil or harpy...but a very classy one!!

  • There is no shame in using chest voice. It's necessary and exists in the highest note one could sing.

  • bien, sería interesante saber quiénes son las viejas cantantes que aparecen en esta entrevista por orden de aparición.

  • They're talking about different things.

  • So many gems in this. 1:53 is brilliance.

  • Can't stop watching this!!! The ladies are too cooly and the journalist is hilarious when he laughs with his chest voice and then tries to be serious by using falsetto... LOL

    TEEEEEEEEEEEE VOGLIOOO BEEEEENEEEEE

  • @GrandTierBox Chrysanthimums by Puccini

  • who is this stupid "journalist" (?!??) making incredible questions...?????

  • @GrandTierBox that is NOT the intermezzo from manon lescaut. it's something else... i've heard it but i can't think of what it is.

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