Klára Kolonits It’s Konstanze time! I first learned Konstanze for a jump in, in 2013 – and in 2019/2020 season it is the role I sang most. How did I study? What difficulties I found in the arias and what techniques helped me in working them out?
Klára Kolonits In our Mozart series we arrived to the Entführung aus dem Serail stop. In the first part registered during Győr Master Class, I’m working with Rebeka on Blonde’s aria. In this difficult piece, the position and the muscle tone are incredibly important. Quick tempo, dense lyrics, constantly high … Read more
Klára Kolonits What is the secret of the Queen of the Night? Why do more and more Königins show up at rocket speed, and why is it so frequent of them to retreat from the throne just as suddenly, even though the high F clearly doesn’t cause them problems and … Read more
Klára Kolonits “The most difficult aria in the world”, Der hölle Rache from the second act of Magic Flute. Full of high Fs and dramatic expression, it’s usually the area of the most daring high sopranos. The difficulties are different than in the Queen’s first aria, from certain point of … Read more
Klára Kolonits If Mozart and coloratura singing, then the highlight is, of course, the Queen of the Night! We will work on both arias in detail but I will also reveal why I set aside the Queen’s crown and I don’t sing the role onstage, saying no to the most … Read more
Klára Kolonits You need to know that I almost never mark, I feel much more confident during the show when I have sung the stage and orchestra rehearsals in full voice. But of course there are situations when I have to be extra cautious, for example when rehearsals and shows … Read more
Klára Kolonits Today I will show you a more complex exercise, and we will play around with it. How can we modify an existing scale, how many thing can you practice on the same sequence of notes, or with only slight changes? What vowels are the best for this and … Read more
Klára Kolonits Along with high notes, one of the most frequent questions I get from colleagues and pupils is the coloratura singing: how to make my singing faster, more agile, selective – how to make notes exact and separate, but the whole passage smooth and even? In this video I … Read more
Klára Kolonits Sure enough everyone saw a champion pole vaulter “fly” at a stratospherical height – but did you pay attention to what makes such “magic” possible? When the physical work actually happens? The most frequent question that I get from my students and colleagues regards the preparation and projection … Read more