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Aria from Le Nozze di Figaro. (Music: Mozart / Lyrics: Da Ponte)

A Recital, Starring David McCoul, Baritone
Kay Kim, Piano
April 4, 2008 at 7 pm
Alice Millar Chapel, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
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[carloschant]

I like your Italian r they are so beautiful. And you have a very nice tone quality.

[DavidMcCoul]

@carloschant

Thank you greatly! I am happy you enjoyed the performance.

[Razool2001]

In a few years you can be a good tenor! You have that resonance... good luck

[DavidMcCoul]

Thank you! I've had many people tell me I would be a good tenor, and I have tried singing in the tenor fach.

[DavidMcCoul]

... However, there are a couple things preventing me right now from switching. First, I would rather sing baritone than potentially damage my voice by singing above my natural range. A good example of this is on David Jones' website. YouTube won't let me paste a URL here, but just Google "David Jones High Light Singing" and click on the first search result. Then, go to the section "Singing the Wrong Fach". David Jones is a baritone who was trained as a tenor.

[DavidMcCoul]

... And also, I'd like to point out an excerpt from Peter Freestone's biography of Freddie Mercury. In it he mentions Montserrat Caballé, a famous opera singer: "It was on this track ['Ensueno' from their album Barcelona] that Montserrat made Freddie sing in his natural voice which, as you can hear, is a baritone rather than the forced tenor which he naturally used because it delivered what was expected of a pop/rock'n'roll vocal performance." (2001, Omnibus Press. pp. 108-109.)

[longliveclassicmusic]

I mean by all means keep this and "Votre toast," as it is your voice and rep which you do very well, but I would LOVE to see you sing something like "Largo al factotum" from Barber, one of Don Giovanni's several arias, something of Guglielmo from Cosi, Belcore from L'Elisir, etc. And who knows, maybe even try the tenor Tamino "Dies bild" from Magic Flute just to see how it fits! There are so many gray areas in singing, and it's never a good idea to get stuck in a fach rut.

[longliveclassicmusic]

In my humble opinion, you sing this particular aria incredibly well, seeming more like a VERY good lyric baritone who is versatile. Your voice just doesn't seem to fit the weight and tessitura a true, even young, bass-baritone carries in this. It's set in the upper middle, and tip top (high F#) of the bass-baritone range for the purpose of giving a very dramatic effect to the scene.

[longliveclassicmusic]

I have a lot of respect for your following David Jones's website!! I very avidly follow him, as well! I've always been told not to worry about what "fach" I am. Work on technique and art songs, and find out which arias and roles your voice fits and sounds best in. Keep the good finds, discard what doesn't fit. For example, a bass-baritone (a true count) would function in this aria much different than a lyric baritone. Then down the road, whatever your collected good fits are determine your fach.

[escamy]

@escamy I think the most important thing in training the voice is to build middle-register and THEN go to high notes. I have seen many baritones trying to switch tenor straight away without making first things first and results are bad. Its like constructing a house: first you do stone foundation and then the roof

[escamy]

Always the same thing with lyric sounding baritones: people acclaim they are tenors. The Fach depends on passagios and where the voice rests. There are differend kind of baritones, low and high and with differend kind of timbres. Like Keenlyside, Battistini/Herlea,Tibett