Mezzo-Soprano Vivica Genaux Shares Her Secrets to Singing Coloratura

[@yourvoicecoach-nancywalker6061]

Fantastic, her heartfelt description of the process is inspiring for all singers regardless of style.

[@ElaCanessaMusic]

So true!!!

[@michaelmiller1215]

Your voice is beyond amazing! Unbelievable execution of the most difficult coloratura repertoire in the literature!

[@megenberg8]

it's Vivaldi. ; )

[@MsLeeDennis]

I LOOOOVE what she has to say! HOW GREAT! I"m so glad to have watched this.

[@northshores7319]

My piano teacher told me that only perfect practice makes you better. So if you have to go slow then go slow until you can go faster. Nice video and insights.

[@binak5144]

The message!!! What a genuine person! :)

[@RigelSunMoon]

What a great piece of advise! So inspiring! I'm so glad I found her on KZbin! 💕💕💕🎶🎶🎶

[@cletotavarespessoa8804]

Always wonderful Vivica.

[@elisabetepetit3024]

Thanks for sharing. I do really need to learn this kind of things. I do really appreciate. She is awesome

[@djperry211]

Her performance of Stabat Mater with Sabina Puertelas is so outstanding. Certainly worth seeking out on YT.

[@rachelgilders130]

Wonderful, I can hear YOUR personality - and what feeling you get from the piece. A lot of singers sound empty and don’t feel it, yet perfectly sung. You singing is full and wonderful.

[@grainneconroy2193]

A very generous artist with a wonderful gift.

[@AntW11]

Wow, impressive, open, sharing with integrity.

[@goldsky3591]

She is so beautiful and humble. I admire her

[@SilvioNobre]

She is so wonderful and talented!

[@BenYebo]

She's wonderful!

[@guidofubini]

the BEST advice categorically! not just for music or arts, even for selecting your math graduate specialization. so long as you are passionate about it.

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

personal as her technique may be, her accuracy in rythm and singing every tiny note exactly at pitch is a dazzling achievement that, honestly, most of otherwise excellent singers get more or less right at best, at that speed. And her voice doesnt sound strained at all to me. On top of that she has brilliant hight and astounding power and depth in her lower register. I can only deduct from all that that her singing technique must be really good....but it would be silly to give someone mere merit on his or her singing technique, when the output is fantastic

[@thethird1967]

She has a lovely voice even when speaking.

[@matthiascheah3519]

One of my teachers told me: If you have a good speaking voice, half of my job is already done.

[@MelissaLeao]

Lovely. Truly inspiring!

[@sejautil8]

MaravilhosaMente ViViCa! Gracias!

[@IbisSanchezSerrano]

I TRULY ADORE HER!!!!

[@savioalves1234]

3:23 is so touching...

[@로보티니콜라스]

You better get rid of your nasality, and your singing will be great

[@marianperez96]

This is truly inspiring!!!

[@gfrangi5422]

Glorious voice, bubbly and uncomplicated personality

[@tenorschofield]

BRAVISSIMA!!! MAESTRA!!!

[@alfredoihldausend4093]

Que mujer más simpática!

[@zozi517]

Amazing history! Awesome and tremendous personality.

[@ngatihine6072]

Right! Youre the one to follow. Ticking all the boxes.

[@stavrosk.2868]

I'm left speechless. Divine.

[@franz3810]

oh her talking voice is soooo dreamy

[@capezyo]

Vivica, you're Top 10

[@marcopilati7464]

Vivica, non sei solo una artista sublime, ma anche uno straordinario essere umano carico di saggezza e sensibilità. Beato chiunque abbia la possibilità di conoscerti e frequentarti.

[@joseraulescalonaaguilera5478]

Hermosa y potente voz, técnica, coloratura; Dios existe

[@Giampiero_Cittati]

Bravissima Vivica!

[@HadashaGrace]

If you know what aria this is please comment for me. I've been trying to find it.

[@WFMTChicago]

Hi Esther, the aria is from Act II of the Vivaldi opera, Griseldi, and it is called "Agitata da due venti." Hope you enjoyed the video!

[@marcopilati7464]

Wonderful voice, wonderful personality.

[@healthyvoicetips]

Inspiring story. Love it.

[@jm2389]

found you here on one of the videos that inspired me :) Love your work Katarina!

[@jefpalmertexas5032]

I love her....

[@vladimiraofficial]

I love this ❤

[@TimelessMusicaOFFICIAL]

perfection ❤❤❤

[@fivizzano]

down to earth, actually salt of the earth... Magnifica !

[@katieveltri5675]

That was interesting, and informative

[@turgutderal5488]

barok operaların, klasik dönem operaları gibi söylenmemesi gerektiğini bilen, çok kendine özgü, çok muazzam bir şarkıcı. hayranıyım bu kadının 👌👍💐

[@jmvbach]

Love you Vivica

[@MayaSapiro]

thank you for this!

[@BernardaBobro]

Where is appoggio? The whole sound is produced with lipps and jaw. Body?

[@MU-ey3jt]

Mickey Mouse ihre Body funktioniert einfach,weil sie singt damit,man kann nicht es merken.

[@berzubirze]

Dear Mickey! Do the appoggio for your own voice and sing happily ever after!!! ;)

[@BernardaBobro]

@@berzubirze She sings with constricted jaw, tongue and ugly nasal sound (beacuse her velum has wrong position). A lot of technical flaws....but if you happy with it, enjoy! She doesn't sing a single OPERA SOUND. Lower larynx with free released air is the condition for opera sound. You can even see, how she is forming fioritura with her lipps. Real opera sound is produced with VOCAL CORDS. And that's what we call supported sound.Firm,solid sound with core. And not just breathy wwwwwwww. But as I said: if you like it, sure, go for it.

[@sandrinoi6490]

Thalia Rice She is an amazing artist and you are totally missing the point but who the fuck are you anyways

[@blonda.bacoviana]

Ah! I've finally found someone who shares my opinion.

[@modman4842]

That’s my ant

[@agnesiradukunda740]

Woww i like it and i love you mum

[@gianerajohn436]

I love it and admire her all the more after this video. It is very rare if not unique that a singer openly and publicly admits about a certain “imperfection” in her technique. Her articulation in fioritura is of course not the free floating legato standard of Bel Canto technique, it is certainly more labored and the knowledgeable listener can’t miss that nevertheless it isn’t an imprecise struggle that we hear with Coloratura wannabes who obsess butchering scores they don’t have the instrument for. Similar to this case is Deutekom. In my opinion one of the greatest sopranos in history whose overall technique, astonishingly powerful and precise instrument and artistic intelligence far outweighed her peculiar glottal legato in fioritura passages. Different case is Bartoli. She is simply too labored and mannered and her gargling kills the whole score for me.

[@Zamstein]

Lol yea. Right.

[@TarotAstrologerTHOMAS]

ridiculous

[@berzubirze]

bravissima!

[@pangpek5645]

❤❤❤ ❤❤❤ ❤❤❤ ❤❤

[@dkl6397]

If you can sing it slowly... 😊

[@vyan7258]

which song is she singing here?

[@magicmonkichi]

Agitata da due venti, from La Griselda by Vivaldi

[@Zamstein]

You can be creative without destructive vocal habits.

[@LaDivinaLover]

Except they clearly aren’t destructive... She’s been singing for literal decades. (Probably longer than you’ve been alive) She still has all the flexibility she had 20 years ago along with the range and “quality of tone” shes always had. Don’t open your mouth if your “point” isn’t based in tangible reality. We get it, you’re a hater that’s gonna hate. But you’re a nobody with no achievements and while you’re pop cover singin ass sitting in your pjs picking apart an artist, she’s a major performer of the baroque on every operatic stage from San Francisco to La Scala. Get wrecked hoe.

[@Zamstein]

@@LaDivinaLover imagine not being able to deal with your own emotions to the point of needing to violently project them onto others. I didn’t even criticize her singing, Jesus Christ. And I never said I was a better singer than anyone else either so for you to come to my channel and harass me because I triggered you is the definition of juvenile. That’s why I hate delusional opera fans that can’t accept their favorites aren’t always perfect. If you think you can sing better than me I look forward to your videos. I’m sure you won’t be using your jaw as a resonator or breath support.

[@Zamstein]

@@LaDivinaLover they clearly are destructive since they aren’t as good as this kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoGyoGiJZseUnJo

[@randakelley511]

You just called this person a nobody? I couldn't even comprehend anything else you said because you were just so unnecessarily mean. Really?

[@blonda.bacoviana]

@@LaDivinaLover You can also have my opinion. This coloratura she does is not destructive for the vocal instrument. It is distructive for the opera art.

[@ChrisJonesDivo]

It's a shame that the singing is too loud to really hear what she is saying, because what she is saying here is incredibly valuable.

[@elizabethpatinomusic]

😍😍😍👏👏👏

[@mickebon]

💜

[@SR-jx8yu]

They coloratura here is just unreal ... so hard!

[@blonda.bacoviana]

It is indeed unreal, because this is not coloratura (the way she sings it). Look up for Galli Curci's Lakme or Tetrazzini or Nellie Melba.

[@Liszt31]

Dear WFMT, can we have also the whole aria without her speaking? It is a marvellous execution from Vivica and orchestra!

[@nathaliec.8763]

Liszt31 the orchestra is Third Coast Baroque, check them out!

[@corinniePop]

Just search for it, there are other recordings on KZbin

[@Liszt31]

I know there are other performance of her. I know each of them. Each one is different from the other and this is why I wanted to hear this better. I love her and her speaking.

[@olivier2101]

Quelle virtuosité ! Impressionnant...

[@Tico4president]

3:23 well, I'm glad that you're having fun but... nooo

[@sandrinoi6490]

Tico4president no one cares tico lol go home

[@Zamstein]

Truer words have never been spoken. Bravo.

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

You `re just yeallous. I`m too, but I don `t blame her for that.

[@veronikaschafersopran4990]

Great advice! but I could barely listen to her because of the loud „background“ music… :)

[@kin-no-choo]

wahahahawawewewawawawewewaaaa... 😒

[@curtbarnes4294]

my love affair continues...

[@dva1254]

Jawbrato

[@2000wattz]

I’m sorry, that lip quiver thing she has going on is nothing but excess jaw tension. Nothing to be celebrated.

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

Taboo about singing techniques or difficulties with your voice is restricted to the classical world. In all other music genres people talk openly about it. No big deal. Because we are all here to learn from each other, that `s whatt music is, or should be about. It`s not a protected formula for the knowledgable few you have to guard with your life, like the ancient alchemists formula to turn mud into gold. Halas, for those singers who thought a perfect technique is what true musicianship is all about. It `s not. Vivica Genaux has more musicianship in her little toe then you negative commentators have in your whole inflated egos

[@Jarchiporz]

Except that she is a soprano, and probably coloratura.

[@smurf902]

Imagine a violinist or a pianist who plays virtuosic rep but is hunched over or fingers and elbow backwards and contorted to the point where you think they have a disability. And audiences spending hundreds for decades to watch them, then you interview them and they explain it by saying "that's how I enjoy to play, so it's OK." That's basically this.

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

I dont come for someone to see him or her singing. I come to listnen. My first idols I heard on radio. I used to sit for hours, and push my ears against the speakers to be able to hear everything they were doing with their voice. Many of them I only saw maaaany years later on tv or so. Or found out they turned out to be female, while I thought they were male. Honestly, If my favourite idols were ugly, drooling or purple with green specks, I couldn care less. If it works, it works, and that`s all that matters in music

[@antiphob]

beautiful but little bit behind cecilia bartoli version.

[@greenwoods798]

I'm not a musician but i really don't understand why she's famous though bad vocal technique. She sounds very strange and her insane jaw's work is not good. Diaphragm must work to create vibrato and to sing thrills but not a jaw. Vivica herself honestly admitted here that she likes to sound "ugly". Good words! But it doesn't means that people want to hear ugly and weak singing from such a famous singer! Her Agitata da due venti is a whole tutorial how you MUSTN'T sing if you want to sound good!..

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

listnen to her album bro, thats good stuff, dont judge her on this short video

[@draganvidic2039]

Hardly a true mezzo but surely strained, but people seem to like small constricted voices...

[@Jarchiporz]

She is a soprano coloratura. No mezzo whatsoever! And you are very right; people seem to like poorly cared voices with awful technique. There you have Netrebko, as an example, completely ingolata. Horrible.

[@Ignasimp]

Terrible technique. She is so nasal and thin. She has no chestvoice.

[@DiomedesDioscuro]

She's telling her secret to sing ugly! She even says it openly! It might be fun, but it's far from good singing. So a singer telling her secrets not to sing properly... No, thanks.

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

actually, it `s not that much of a secret. A lot of excellent singers, classical, pop, rock, chanson, all genres you can imagine (but probably you only live in the Protected Habitat of Classical Music) use onortodox and personal singing techniques to acchieve great sound. Mostly a very unique sound, and not necissaryly very pleasing to the ear at first. But a good technique they developed, otherwise you dont have a career. God, when do classical musicians and singers come down from their ivory tower and learn a thing or two from the rest of the world....classical western singing is like...5 percent or so of existing music...a lot of classical singers i listnen to have ONLY technique, but are utterly boring to listnen to. I prefer a flawed or `personalised` technique above a lifeless performance

[@blonda.bacoviana]

This is just far from grace. Why is this promoted?

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

promoted? Cant you make your own decisions on what sites you visit and which ones you dont? You people here in this comment section are really.........🙄