All of these singers are crying all the way to the bank to cash their very large checks. This is one person's opinion only. Please don't take what 1 person says as gospel. There is no accounting for taste. Opera listeners cannot relive the past except through recordings. Yes, there were some fantastic singers in the 1900's. But there are some fantastic singers singing today. When one compares, one gets very unhappy. We must think of what people hear who have never heard the past crop of singers. There will never be another Bjorling, Corelli, Del Monaco, Bastianini, Warren, Merrill, Milanov, Nilsson, Sutherland, Barbieri, Cossotto, Verrett, etc. Enjoy the current crop of singers because they have their own unique sound. Singers like Florez, Camarena, Kaufmann, Yoncheva, Salsi, etc. There are those that I, personally, don't like, but I won't get in the way of those who enjoy their singing. As I said, there is no accounting for one's taste and we do not have to account for ours.

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Yeah, what do these international opera stars know about singing. Is that you, RFK Jr.?

Corelli и здесь лучше всех ) 👍

Recording and recording date?

Estoy asombrado de la cantidad de grandes cantantes de ópera que han triunfado y que ,según este video,no tienen ni idea de cantar. Un poco más de modestia,esos cantantes se seguirán escuchando dentro de 50 años,y nadie se acordará del autor de este video

I've never liked opera because it all sounds the same. It's like compressed music, there are no dynamics to the voice. An untrained listener can't tell the difference between the singers. Rock music revealed the dynamic potential of the human voice, (and not only of the voice, but of other instruments, as well). Someone who has never heard Mariah or Whitney can tell that they are different singers. I believe that's why rock music has become so much more popular than classical. And modern opera singers are probably trying to emulate the dynamics of rock singers.

Why do you give off Trump supporter vibe?

resonance not nasal

Whoever finds two videos of the lovely Croatian singer, please comment down the links!

Unless you can sing, and teach better than all of these greats, and the students performing, don’t disrespect them like this. Especially for the greats, whatever they did worked for them and they got careers out of it.

Opera plots are simple? I don't think so. Opera plots are convoluted, often times ridiculous and nonsensical. Still I love opera and intend to die listening to it. Btw, this old recordings don't do justice to the singers, some sound really bad.

nilsson은 너가 말하는거처럼 그렇게 가르친게 아닌데 그냥 싸잡아서 욕하네 nilsson masterclass를 보구와도 이런 헛소리를 하는지 참으로 궁금하군

The first 'tenor' is a third rate singer who would be singing in the provences were he not 'coupled to Netrebko!

Singers....God bless you all!

Adriana Ferrarese, Mozart's Fiordiligi, always sang arias where she could showcase her low register, often with extremly big leaps to high notes (a technique called canto di sbalzo). How absurd to think that this was her "weak register", when she explicitly asked composers to write this kind of music!!!!!!

How dare you make such a video. These people have poured their hearts, lives and souls into their craft. You thibk that you are setting the record straight or encouraging real singing, but what you are really doing is vilinizing the artists you claim to support. You are the “Anti-Opera” and I wish you every ill. Maybe you should try to do what these artist ls are doing and see how you do? Ti maledico

The issues in the “wobble” examples are very obvious to me (and frankly, this sound is everything that is wrong with modern opera), but I just can’t hear or understand the problem with the “tremolo” section. They all sound lovely to me. And is the poster claiming that abdominal vibrations/contractions are desirable on legato phrases? I absolutely cannot get behind that.

This video contains TONS of ridiculous comments -- not from the actual Singers/Teachers -- but from the person writing the inane comments

No es justo que comparen a diferentes tipos de tenor asi como diferentes tipos de soprano. Eso influye mucho. Hay personas que les gustará un tenor spinto o lirico spinto pero no un lirico ligero por ejemplo, porque al oido de algunos, la voz que se escucha mas poderosa es de los dos primeros pero eso no le quita mérito al lírico ligero. Y pues hay personas que de plano solo se fijan en lo que dice la letra o lo que transmite. Para todo se hicieron diferentes colores y sabores (es un decir).

Okay, guys, I am newcomer here. Drop some names of modern singers who sing in old school bel canto technique. Appreciated in advance.

THIS is opera!!! You are so wright. Thank you.

But you're making a terrible mess of it. You're comparing completely random different types of voices and recordings, and you're mixing your opinions on the aesthetics of singing with instructions on how to teach singing technique. You're taking things out of context, and the only truth for you is nostalgia for something that's gone.

Anchored chest is the only way

They established historical correct interpretation, put natural strings on their violins etc, what about historical correct singing?

Personally, I love caviar but realize it’s not to everyone’s taste. If you’ve tried something a number of times without acquiring a taste for it, then move on and eat things you like or try something else. I know I don’t like licorice or campari because I’ve given them a few chances from time to time. But I have such an effortless passion for opera that I made it my vocation and sang and directed opera professionally for over fifty years. If you give something a sincere try, don’t beat yourself up because it doesn’t click. Move on to something that more readily engages you and leave opera to those of us who are hopelessly smitten. “De gustibus non disputatem” as the Germans say in Latin.

Ooh shut up OP. Everyone on this video sounds wonderful, including Mariah and Dame Shirley.

Suoni raccolti, palato molle alzato, E LARINGE LIBERA SEMPREEEEEEEE!!!!

Estudiar y ejercitar el canto es distinto a la ejecución del canto. No vale decir que quiero la técnica del sfugatto solamente mostrando un cuadro de da Vinci. Los objetivos y los medios son distintos. Todos los grandes no son buenos pedagogos ni los modernos ni los antiguos. Fuera favoritismos!

Cannavacciuolo 😂

I am far from being opera expert. But I sincerely do not understand what is nice in singing of these 2 ladies, which were shown after Netrebko, as an example of singing etc. For me even badly sung opera is better than modern pop music in english. Netrebko was very beautiful in her younger days, now she is fat and vulgar, but still sounds better than these pop monkeys-). And when she was young she was way more beautiful than both of them. And speaking of opera being popular...it was popular only among aristocrats, rich people etc. Now it is available even for more people.

lol you don’t know what you’re talking about, so inflammatory

Voce di petto nelle voci acute non vuol mai dire pesare, sia nel grave sia nel centro. Petto, centro e testa dovranno essere equilibrate, o non ci sarà mai una voce da un vero cantante. Da Mancini, Tosi, delle Sedie, Garcia, Lazaro, Ponselle, Gigli, non basta leggere due righe, ma tutto quello che hano scritto, e praticare tanti ani. Doppo questo si potrà dire qualcosa sulla scuola italiana. Delle altre non mi piacerà mai dir niente...

Nilsson was trying to get the student to not just pull up the chest voice by force, which is solid advice. The tough part is that he would need to first find an easier way to sing his higher notes and then *develop* them into being bigger and stronger, which simply can't be accomplished in a single masterclass.

As a spinto tenor I can say I love dark voices and the moments when I have to get really dark in my singing, but this whole video is so messed up in concepts and the childish intention behind it. I don't personally like Florez's singing or technique but I can almost guarantee the person that did this video has never studied operatic technique, much less being in a masterclass in person. The baby laughters get nefarious by the second or third time, I feel like my 60yo reactionary uncle made this video in Movie Maker.

6:26 that is opera being sacrificed for the sake of business 🤑💰

Whoever put together this video picked out the crappiest performances and recordings to illustrate their 'point'. The opera that I listen to carries me away with its beauty and drama.

To be honest I didn't really like the old exemples either... I guess it's really not my type of music 😅

6:05 Jerry Hadley's voice was noted to be worn and in decline, and he suicided. He passed away at the far too young age of 55 years.

i love opera

You don't really know what you're talking about. Both DiDonato and Fleming were trying to lighten the voice in a particular area of the aria. Darkness is not always the goal. Callas gave the same advice in her masterclass for the end of Mimi 's aria. Fleming in that moment was teaching the student how to float. Which very few singers ever achieve. Battle was a master at floating. Having different colors and techniques (bright and dark) in one's arsenal is a strength. Especially for light and lyric Sopranos.

I TOTALLY disagree with your premise. I liked the opera singers of today better than the older ones and CERTAINLY better than Mariah Carey,etc!!

How come this channel never uses Pavarotti, Domingo .etc as an example? There's a video where Domingo as a baritone is shown but apart from that I see nothing, it seems strange

Wagner's librettos are very intellectual! He vehemently criticized the shallowness of Italian and French opera.

Solche Videos sind eine Schande!

People who think they're solving a problem by telling the orchestra to play quieter don't uderstand the problem that they are solving. No matter how quietly an orchestra plays, the nature of musical instruments is such that they will still have too much SUBSTANCE for an underdeveloped or non-sounding voice. It's not that the voice will not be heard, but that its degree of PRESENCE will not be matched to that of musical instruments. Even with a single piano it is bad if the sound of the accompanying piano is more beautiful and more rich than the voice of the soloist it is accompanying. The audience is sure to go home unsatisfied and confused as to what they just heard and why they bothered.

If there's one kind of sound that sounds completely out of place in opera it's a breathy sound! I say this as an audience member. That these people are instructing singers to sing more breathy is GHASTLY! You CANNOT sing breathy over an orchestra, even with a quiet orchestra, because the timbre of the instruments will be too big a contrast with a non-souding voice. It's boring and uninteresting when a voice cannot match the orchestral instruments in firmness and richness of sound. It's not even about being heard over the orchestra, but of having a sound of enough SUBSTANCE to be able to make musice WITH an orchestra. How can these people not understand this?? How can they even be considered musicians if they don't understand this. The beauty of the old singers is that they could MATCH the substance and richness of orchestral sound. That's it!! That's simply all there is to it. The only alternative is pick up a microphone and go sing pop music.

The trick is how to produce more sound but without screaming

wow, can't believe Florez was saying what he was saying!! Send these so called 'teachers' home!!

These master classes sometimes seem like an extremely bad idea. They should not be teaching vocal technique on students they know nothing about. If this is not a way to ruin a singer i don't know what is. You have to be very self-assured and strong to discern whether to take or leave what a given master classes 'teacher' tells you. Likely not all students have the strength of character and personality to just walk away from a BAD idea. A master class should be much more high level, because you CAN'T teach vocal technique to an unknown student in ten minutes. It's ridiclous. They should focus on interpretation or something else, but not on such nitty gritty of technique. Very presumptuous of them to think they can each someone else just because they have some kind of career.