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 Jumps-ins play a significant role in the singer’s career. If someone is a good at them, the news quickly spreads in the theatre circles. From my own experience, a phone ringing suddenly can mean pretty much anything. Of course, the most common one a request to do a … Read more
Klára Kolonits Ladies, hands up if you never encountered the role of Cherubino! None? I thought so. I sang this role myself, and not only in the school, but also on stage at the beginning of my career – on top of that, in parallel with the Countess, in another … Read more
Klára Kolonits After last week’s episode, we will of course deal with the Countess’s aria – we will analyse technical difficulties and have a look at possible solutions. Interestingly, I will show the same phrase with the original Italian text as well as in Hungarian – which proved to be … Read more
Klára Kolonits In our Mozart series here comes the dreaded Zerlina, a catalogue of vocal difficulties. We will try to analyse these difficulties and get rid of them with the help of a fitness ball and a dumbbell.
Klára Kolonits, Barbara Bordás After less known Mozart piece last week, we are up to a series of “hits”. In classical singing, we always focus on even registers, smooth timbre throughout the scale – this will be the main topic of our upcoming episodes. First of all, we’ll have a … Read more