Hi! I'm the soprano! I was definitely putting on a bit of an act for laughs; I hope there isn't TOO much of a stereotype about us soprani! :) Thanks for watching!

Jacquelyn Stucker I really love your voice, it sounds so metallic, this role really suits you!!! I'm on the 3rd year of classical singing lessons, I'm also a soprano and I hope that some day I'll sing this role like you!! Brava!!! greetings from Greece 😉

Jacquelyn Stucker your voice is amazing and your attitude in the video was adorable!

Megan Payne I’m a sop and can confidently say that we all act like this

Claudia Ciempka :-D

Romaniya Voloshchuk I was literally thinking “I swear I know that tenor from somewhere” before realizing that I was actually just remembering every single tenor I’ve ever met/heard. Great voice though! lol

Ture

Decent. Not legendary like Pavarotti. He's sure better than the meme they call Piotr.

I thought he was just okay, it looked like he was struggling with the high notes. Still, very talented

yep ..my god they are ALL like that ..they take up the most time with the repertoire . even though YOU ALL pay the same amount..they add in an extra song at recital ..they wink to the audience ..so annoying!

Bassists are the tallest! It is truly the case that if someone is taller then the voice tends to be lower as well. Tenors are the shortest! If you do not agree then please show some tall above 190cm operatic tenors! I can easily show you many basses that are above that height. However it is a big struggle to find tenors who are that height apart from James Valenti who is tall. It is in fact even a common knowledge is Russia that a typical basso profundo vocalist is at least 190cm tall.

I loved bassists one so much

Dream TheDream89 not quite true?? Not that I know any very tall operatic tenors, but my dad is like 190 something, and he's a tenor. He doesn't do opera, but he's been in a choir

@@user-ic6sh6sx5m of course there are exceptions with tenors. James Valenti is a tall operatic tenor. Baritones of course can be any height but on average i think that even baritones would be taller than tenors. It is very easy to name several tall above 190cm operatic basses but very difficult to do so with tenors. In Russia it is even a common knowledge that a true basso profundo singer is typically at least 190cm tall. If you go to any opera house and take a picture of all of their performs standing side by side on an even ground you will see that basses are the tallest and tenors are the shortest.

@@dreamthedream8929 well... since you said 'if you dont agree ' I just wanted to put that in. There quite a few tall tenors at our church though. Maybe thats different to singing opera? But in general I guess youre right, and that do make sense.

Allie Collins that’s because they are

Oof. As a second violin in an orchestra, I relate sooooo much.

I'm a soprano. I can confirm this.

As a first soprano who plays the viola, yes. This.

As a soprano i can confirm this lol

osae g 😂😂😂

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How

She got that samantha barks vibe

Thats What i was thinking 🙈

Anna Toth agreed! All of them are amazing but she is the best one there for me ❤️

She was magnificent! Her voice was so rich, smooth and not forced at all! A delight to hear all of them sing, but an absolute privilege to experience the mezzo!

She's my favorite

@@horrormgirl4979 Uh...Not trying to be disrespectful to the opera house but are these all pros? I feel like some of these have to be students.

Ginger Taylor you put the feeling I had listening to him into words. :D

Ginger Taylor Robert Lloyd is a v famous bass. The most famous singer there!

He is so nasal!

@mckavitt13 He is unjustly famous. He is the most nasal bass ever.

@@xxsaruman82xx87 Aha! Well, there you are.

William Coleman im pretty sure contralto isn’t really recognized as a vocal type in opera anymore, or at least that’s what I’ve been told.

@@victoriap.3394 I'm pretty sure contralto is recognized as a vocal type in opera, actually.

they are recognized, but since their voice fully Developes later than the average mezzo/soprano and they are way more rare in general, most of the times the contralto part is played by a mezzo with excellent low notes

what's a contralto?

@@jmaca. lowest women voice type

It's so, so, sooooo effortless * . *! She doesn't seem to even break a sweat!

Indeed! What a glorious rich color, and she doesn't look like she's even trying

She's the only one who's mastering technique. Build the muscles in your body and control the breath so you don't sing from the throat.

@@KC-kp4wc exactly. She sounds great

You are breathtaking. YOU ARE ALL BREATHTAKING

I LOVE a Good Bass!!!! Soooo essential!!

AND you can actually understand what the basses are singing!

Yes yes yes yes and yes!! Our basses never get enough recognition like our sopranos (to be fair us Sopranos dont get as much attention in my school choir either but it still sadly more than our basses)

Completely agree!

Basses make me go weak in the knees. Sing, sweetie!

that caught my eye as well! Hilarious! :D

And she had a look like "bitch, the hell are you doing?"

LatinaKamilla the tenor had INSANE tension all over. Holy shit his voice will be dead in a few years.

i never wanna stop listening to her voice omfg

Because it’s “Mezzo” rare voice type

@@acallaghan4964 could you mind explaining this a little more? i would think that since a mezzo has the solid middle range, that it would be the most common. i ask because im a mezzo and i’ve been struggling to accept that since my school is filled with celebrated sopranos😅

​@@blahblah5893 because mezzos are rarer than sopranos (numerically speaking). Sopranos are actually the most common voice type out there

Every one in youtube is an expert...

Why do you assume people commenting have no knowledge of music?

The Geek Monster naturally because many of the people commenting among social media platforms have no exact and correct idea of the things they are commenting about. From "having" perfect pitches to claiming they "have" this vocal range but when you ask them live they can't do it. It's hard to give the benefit of the doubt because you will know if some things are just a bunch of "false claims" which people love to do on social media.

@@LJMadrigalMusic Sorry, but how many KZfaq commenters have you directly asked to demonstrate their vocal range for you? Come on.

That made me lol. Haha, thanks!

how open your mouth is has no affect on your singing. Also, i would like to see that mezzo sing the notes the soprano was singing without opening her mouth wider, its high;y advantageous to open your mouth wider when singing higher, just like it makes sense for it to be more closed when singing lower as it allows for better resonance. Secondly, there is no "proper" placement, some songs require different placements, but all are equally right, it might not be right for the song, but im assuming your not the composer or the director of the songs/singers

hi, soprano here.I suppose you were referring specifically to the wide mouth posture on mainly the highest note the soprano sang.From personal experience I can tell you that opening your mouth quite wide in a big Ah position of sorts helps place that note right where it should be, further back in the mouth, and basically gets all the other usually important factors (tip and sides of the tongue) freed up to get out of the way. I'm not an expert, but from what I can tell from especially high notes is that all they care about is the very back of the tongue and other factors in the throat. But I do agree that the mezzo found the sweetspot, resonating beautifully and causing her projection to be spectacular

Do you sing? Do you teach singing? I doubt it, even a beginner student as myself knows this shit: how much you open your mouth has nothing to do with making the voice "big and beautiful", you either use your chest or head for resonance and you need proper breathing and support, so you can basically sing with your mouth shut and sound "big and beautiful" in fact, most singers when warming up. It's an exercise. It doesn't matter if your voice is correctly placed (for the song you're about to sing) if you're trying to reach high notes properly you WILL need to open your mouth.

@@oliviabodily4183 I thought you just said "how open your mouth is has no affect on your singing." You then went on the describe how the openness of the mouth would be necessary for certain types of singing. I'm confused which one it is you believe.

@@helenasouza9196 opening the mouth with a relaxed an open jaw accomodates a lower larynx position and chest voice. And you don't use your chest for resonance, you feel sympathetic resonance in the chest, but where it really resonates in is the head, even for the lowest notes.

He was my favorite, such a warm and strong voice

His career is a long, distinguished one.

Someone who sings bass is simply a bass! A bassist is someone who plays bassguitar, double bass or other bass instruments.

Probably because he didn’t bring his bass...

No one talks about the baritone :,(

@@MooMooCow95 I love the Contralto! Especially Delphine Galou! I'm primarily a Lyric Tenor but I can sing Baritone, Tenor, and Countertenor (I have a 3 octave range) And because Countertenors are male Mezzo-Soprano/Contralto Voices I'm kinda partially a male Contralto (I sing from G2-G5)

Yeah, like Im somewhere between alto and contralto, because my vocal range is E3-A4, so I can't sing Alto or Mezzo, and they dont have alto or contralto

@@MooMooCow95 Cool! I mostly sing church and early music!

Contralto jokes are like viola jokes hahaha

Hai Yen Dinh : after a recent recital, I collared and fangirled the excellent violist; he only got a spark of appreciation in his eye when I added, “because I get it man, I sing alto.”

This is kind of a video for beginners who are new to the classical music and voice scene and talking about things like Coloraturas would have been a little confusing.

That's what I thought too. Most people who know opera exists already know this much.

This is a beginner's guide though, that's all to advanced. But it might've been nice that they explained their range.

Jackie Composes, Have An Ice Day. This was a demonstration of the same voice types found everywhere in vocal music displaying classical technique. That's less "beginner's guide to opera" more "so you've never listened to any music ever".

me too. but this is was still fun

Muscle control and breathing. :)

Vibrato on the e string? For soprano Xd

years

I am a classically trained violinist and lyric soprano and it’s exactly like the violin: practice, practice, practice. This didn’t happen by accident. Oh and did I mention practice? 😉

Oof a lottttt of training

It's a shame they're so rare, maybe they couldn't find one for the video

Quite possible, I studied opera and have only met one in person.

Give Ulrica's aria from Un Ballo In Maschera by Verdi a listen! Absolutely gorgeous

The bass is so nasal!

@Dog Mart Sung by Obraztsova or Barbieri, of course!

She is amazing but to steal the show she'd have to beat that bass and I don't think that happened. They were both great.

@@radwigs the bass is disgusting vocally, just as the rest of this group. Shame on ROH

mezzos can sound so elegant

We tend to do that 😁

Isagail you should listen to Michale Mancini he’s another really fantastic male soprano

Check out Philippe Jaroussky, Andrea Schöll and Jakub Orlinski.

Mitch Grassi

Very interesting are also Franco Fagioli, Valer Barna-Sabadus and Vince Yi

my all time favorite is Jakub Josef Orlinsky, has such a pure and manly yet high voice.

It's just a very high soprano, nothing inhuman about that...

@@AnnaEmilka ....It was a joke due to the difficulty of that particular aria.

AniDex jokes are typically funny 😶

@@TurboBinch I mean. Plenty of people didn't overthink it and found it funny, but go off I guess.

@@AnnaEmilka it's not just a "high soprano". bel canto singing, coloraturas, candenzas - it's definitely not "just high soprano". We've got a lot of difficult techniques, but you do you lmao.

Music Tho it’s rough lol

Hahaha, yes, sorry! 😅

Yes.

However, don't change.

😂

Sounds like heaven

Thi Hills Music Well the tenor was really bad.

Yes, he really was. But I mean, most Full-Lyric Tenors and Full-Lyric Sopranos sound basically the same, but the Mezzo and Baritone Fach tends to have far more different timbres and colors. And also I think their voices are more interesting because they have "half portion" of their "counterparts", like the baritone for example has "half portion" of the bass and "half portion" of Tenor in his voice and so I find it more interesting to hear. Even in pop music I don't like hearing those "boyish-voiced" tenors or those "girlish-voiced" sopranos (Prime Mariah Carey is an exception).

I also enjoy it. But it is falsetto (doesn't impress me much).

Cant agree more, dramatic baritone here! :)

Ignasi, you are funny. He wasn't in the best form he could be. Not perfect, he obviously struggled but he's great.

Lol

Lex Jones i guess so 💀

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InBoccaChiusa Indeed!

They're rare

MsJGingerbread countertenors are rarer

Lillian Kim I was so sad to see contraltos missing also! I’d love to see the whole range of women’s voices!

@@aphtoris a countertenor is just a dude singing in his falsetto. They are not even close to as rare as a contralto.

​@@XavierWConzet no need to patronize me, I know what a countertenor is. I also know that very few male singers can actually produce the right timbre to be a countertenor, falsetto or not. countertenors are still rare. therefore, there is no reason why a well-funded company like the royal opera house should be able to find a countertenor but completely neglect to find a contralto.

that's how they write Sapranos dude, just deal.

. Indeed

Really...? :0 I've known a lot of very shy, quiet sopranos as well. ^-^ I'm also a soprano, and I have a lot of anxiety and depression, so I don't like drawing attention to myself. ^^;;

Poupée Délicate no one cares

Yeah, that's how life works. ^-^

Can you give me the names of the three female voice parts? Thank you

Horrible!

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He's not a real countertenor. I've heard some amazing counter tenors

@@vanessah4943 sounds more like a falsetto

just a man who got kicked in the balls

i know him personally

And a wonderful piece from Zauberflöte.

Indeed mezzos and contraltos are often lumped into the same category, but they're entirely different fachs.

They...they are classically trained. They don't belt. They're not trained for that.

@@piamarleen9143 Can you explain the difference pls? Is belting just a different name for chest voice?

@@cancelled_user At lot of people like to say that belting is a little like screaming. They're kind of right, because modern singing - especially musical - requires you to use your voice as if you were speaking. To make that work at high notes you get pretty loud. Opera singers have a more balanced voice which allows them to stay at the same volume no matter how high or low they are singing. It's really just a matter of preference. There are fantastic classical singer and amazing modern ones. I'm classicaly trained but decided to become a musical actress, so right now I'm learning how to switch to a more modern sound and I've definitely gained respect for belters. It's not just screaming, it's amazing voice control and Suuuuper hard 😵

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He’s so nasal!

@@xxsaruman82xx87 Yeah a few of the singers in this video made weird sounds.

That's exactly what I was thinking. And people who by all account should be Contraltos end up taking mezzo roles, otherwise they would never get work. The whole thing is kinda messed up.

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Yeah... They included a countertenor, but not a contralto.

Han Ly the negative nancies are right. The level of singing at the big opera houses has declined to an unacceptable standard in quality. These singers are quite terrible. In fact they are mediocre compared to even your average university voice student. It's unacceptable standards and true opera lovers are sick of this shit. This art is so corrupt

Todd Tolson not even close. This isn't just out of the golden age. It's not really an acceptable standard

Bad justification, you don't have to be a chef to know when food is bad, and most people watching this will have a grasp of operatic singing, and the tenor was the weakest, probably alongside the bass, the baritone was mediocre, and the soprano was weak. Mezzo-soprano was the most pleasing. Nobody is perfect, and nobody here is absolutely horrific, it's just that in order to do a video where you show off the basic different voice types it's not good to have mediocre sounding singers.

Todd Tolson please lol. Rosa Ponselle has stronger chest voice than this "baritone"

i was watching this video thinking why i never got into opera. i was rudely reminded by the comment section. all of these snobs make it impossible to enjoy anything

Don't see many true countertenors around! They are truly a wonder.

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I personally don't like how he sounds Sorry

@@prizmarvalschi1319 because he has a shitty a technique, as well as the tenor

@@DrRhyhm yes

::eyeroll:: 1) you're on youtube. Welcome to critics hiding behind keyboards (which, by the way, doesn't mean they're wrong). 2) That's art. These artists are going to be loved and hated their whole lives. In fact, the better they get, the more some will strongly oppose their art. An artsfiend should know that.

I don't think that bass is at the beginning of his career

I didn't say every comment. Most of these singers are on the ROH young artists scheme which is about them improving and gaining experience. Constructive criticism is fine. Dismissing individual singers as 'terrible' is not.

Now that so many people on the internet know that their comments don't have your approval, I'm sure it's all going to change!

sorry, but what the actual f***? this is not a school recital, this is the ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, they cannot afford to promote such bad singing. The mezzo was nice, but everyone else was maybe good enough to sing in the opera chorus.

Alexis Low they were unable to find one, lol

New Horizons They should look for me haha. I am a Coloratura Contralto even though I am a guy with an androgynous voice. I have been trained as a contralto :)

Alexis Low Then you’re not a contralto. You’re a tenor

Kaye Musume yeh lmao, its like a mezzo saying theyre a counterternor

Contralto voices are not easy to find

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Marlijn Krop thank you 😊

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Yea that would have been optimal

When it comes to opera, contralto singers are extremely rare - and consequently, so are contralto roles. And even when those roles exist (such as Maddalena in Rigoletto), they frequently get performed by mezzo-sopranos due to the scarcity of contralto singers.

@@peripheraldevotee94 It's still extremely inaccurate and a little disrespectful to not even at least mention them.

Yes

Honeybee17 Altos only exist in choirs. The lowest voice for women in opera is the contralto which are actually extremely rare.

Good ear - it's probably where Andrew Lloyd Webber got the idea from! :) There actually was a Christine on the West End, Gina Beck, who incorporated a big chunk of the final 'Sempre Libera' cadenza into 'Think of Me' at her last performance. It was really cool!

lol the whole musical was basically a ripoff of Puccini and a few other composers

Either that or Pirates of Penzance

Or just about every soprano feature solo

That's what I thought, maybe it was from another.

Ir's needed, for a fuller discussion.

Stella Parks Dramatic here 😊

I'm not sure if I'm a mezzo or not

Gotta rep it up!

Stella Parks yep

Stella Parks right here!

This is a funny joke!

Namy goddamn chill

IT’S SO BAD BUT I DID LAUGH HAHA Ah I’m going to hell-

Lol. Yeah. Falsetto is comical.

@@dalsegno1251 its fucking not. women have falsetto too and sing in falsetto in opera mostly (yes, this is falsetto too, which is usually called head voice). that dude is just really bad. he doesnt have any technique, his breath support doesnt exist, his voice is sharp and not rounded. the bad thing about countertenors is that they dont have to sing good to get the job, there are no high standards set for them, while other voices need to be good.

You're not, I am one too!

You are not alone! ;)

Contralto power.... hey hey hey

Naturally I am too, but since I've expanded my range over the years I'm CONSIDERED to be a Dramatic Mezzo Soprano 😊

Alto power!!

I'm a baritone, love hearing different mezzo voices! Love the different complexions! Keep loving your mezzo voice. Maybe he doesn't understand, you're balanced in your low and head notes, with a strong middle register! Bravo to you❤❤