Is this a trill troll?
Maybe!
I got a cool message from someone about the legato coloratura post. It was a question regarding trills. My brain suddenly went into overdrive. Why?
First off, thanks to the people who write me messages. Keep it up, and don’t worry about having to “out” yourself. Keep looking for truth in your singing! But don’t imitate me when it comes to doing it out in the open. The nail that sticks out gets hammered - I’ve cut off my access to any number of very comfortable retirement options by talking about this stuff.
Anyhoo!
Trills. This is mighty inconvenient for front-support based modern pedagogy. You see, men can’t trill these days, but back when everyone actually trained their support, they could. So composers have trills all over the place for the boys - but if you’re being prepared to sing Verdi, you will literally be told to ignore them.
I don’t have a solution quite yet but I strongly feel it’s related to the quest for legato coloratura that I don’t hear in any of the modern recordings or in most of the old ones either. There’s just a million miles between Fernando de Lucia and Juan Diego Florez. I think that somewhere inside this different kind of support lies the potential for all the male trills that are currently only done by “specialists” who... um.... TBH guys we basically have these people as affirmative action for shitty singers with boring ideas about art. (Sorry but it’s true).
I also feel there is a connection to the recent controversial post about vibrato and pop music.
I sorta also feel like if opera singers didn’t try so hard to pretend they are special, they could get to work on becoming special again - step one - notice that we are singing the same way as the pop singers, by observing with the eyes more and with wishful thinking a bit less.
Submitted December 15, 2018 at 09:51AM by pcastagner https://ift.tt/2SRBReY
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