Voice Type / Soprano
Features:
Contemporary school:
- Sound forced and swallowed.
- Poor control fiato (breathing)
- Sound not squillante (not bright and swallowed throat)
- Careers just a few decades, do not reach 50 years.
- Poor aesthetics and poor interpretation
Old school:
- Well placed, bright with squillo Sound (Easy, without forcing)
- Good control of fiato (breathing)
- Dynamic, Mezza di voce, good staccato, and coloratura in general - Rich sound, varied, not static, not heavy
- Careers more than 30 years
- Good performance
It isn't important voice type (lyrical, dramatic, spinto, coloratura, etc) only the placement of the sound (bright or squillante VS swallowed sound) and good breath control (good mezza di voce, pianissimi, fortes, etc but without altering placement of sound, not sound different for each musical note, only a homogenous sound) and the ease of singing (not forcing) not rare voice effects that make swallowing sound, bad pitch or sound position, veiled, poor in harmonics, opaque, and usually volume below the orchestra due to poverty harmonic voice.
There are good singers beautiful natural voice, but poor technique. In the opera vocal technique is essential. Today the technique plays a small role, this is wrong. The inexperienced public is major culprit, because they accept to buy the show of the bad singers (singers good marketing) The Great theaters employ singers with good marketing, no matter the technique. There are good unknown singers. It's very sad...
