The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #150424 Message #3505042
Posted By: Don Firth
17-Apr-13 - 07:04 PM
Thread Name: Improving my voice
Subject: RE: Improving my voice
I remember a young soprano here in Seattle years ago. She had a nice voice and she was singing leads in a small local opera company (Towers Opera Production Studios) long before Seattle Opera (a full, professional, world class opera company complete with a 3,100 seat opera house) got started in the 1960s.
Her mother was her teacher. And she felt her daughter needed work on her vibrato. What they wound up with was what might be called a horizontal (loud-soft) vibrato rather than a slight alternation of pitch.
She wound up sounding like a bleating goat! Mrs. Towers, head of TOPS didn't want her anymore, and the poor girl couldn't even get a spot in Seattle Opera's chorus.
Screwed up a potentially very good voice!
Don Firth