[HN Gopher] Diminuendo Lagrimoso: Tracing the decline of big ope...
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       Diminuendo Lagrimoso: Tracing the decline of big opera voices
       (2023) [pdf]
        
       Author : leonry
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2024-06-12 09:12 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | throwup238 wrote:
       | I don't know if all of Andrea Bocelli's work count as opera
       | because he tours performing his pieces instead of some operatic
       | story but he's one of the best selling musicians in the entire
       | world (>75 million albums). The article undersells just how
       | popular he is.
       | 
       | If anyone has a chance to go hear him perform, it is a real
       | treat. No other concert I've been to has sounded as good as he
       | and the orchestra do live, especially Con Te Partiro (which he
       | usually sings in the encore).
        
       | dvh wrote:
       | Not a single chart in that pdf
        
         | JALTU wrote:
         | Old school journalism/publishing: words words words, all about
         | the words.
        
       | seanhunter wrote:
       | This article is just a "things were better in the good old days"
       | opera remix.
       | 
       | Anyone who thinks you can't hear dramatic new opera singers who
       | can project to fill a house and last night after night just
       | hasn't been going to opera and listening with any sort of open
       | mind
       | 
       | For example off the top of my head
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       | Jonathan Lemalu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-HTrrOBDxQ
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       | That's a pretty big new voice right there.
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       | Helen Charlston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19RJKnh9hbU
       | 
       | Amazing dramatic soprano with beautiful clear diction
       | 
       | etc etc I could think of tens of examples if I had a bit more
       | time.
        
         | KAMWL wrote:
         | The paper talks about Verdi, Wagner, etc. The "Non piu andrai"
         | link is Mozart, and not performed very well. In fact it
         | supports the article.
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         | For big spinto voices search for Franco Corelli, for big
         | dramatic voices Mario del Monaco. And these two were already at
         | the end of the golden age.
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         | This is not a case of rose tinted glasses. It is all on YouTube
         | and painfully evident. The article gives a couple of sane
         | reasons: Very few people are exposed to singing in the first
         | place these days, so talent goes unnoticed. The war on
         | masculinity might play a role for men as well.
        
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