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In Reply to: What is wrong with male opera singers?? posted by jazz1 on July 17, 2011 at 04:41:54:
Much of the problem is probably the "louder is better" approach that has crept into operatic singing since the end of WW2. If you listen to the great singers from the first half of the 20th century, it's rare to hear the sort of bellowing that has become the standard since 1950. Unfortunately, there are far too many fans who seem to care about nothing but decibels and high notes.
Listen, for example, to Georges Thill or Paul Franz, two of the great French tenors of the first half of the 20th century. Both sang plenty of heavy repertoire (Franz, for example, sang mostly Wagner at the Paris Opera). There is nothing ugly about their singing. Or listen to any number of the great pre-war baritones - de Luca, Molinari, Bonelli. Wonderful singers all, and if they showed up today they'd be dismissed as "too light" for the roles they sang. Or simply listen to Robert Merrill's early recordings, before 1950. A wonderful, perfectly produced lyric sound - but because of the popularity of people like Warren and the late Cornell MacNeil, his later work features a beefed-up, darker sound that is much less attractive.
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