Kolonits Klára During the master class in Győr, we didn’t only work with the students on opera arias. Elvira is preparing to be an operetta singer, so we chose Marica’s entrance for our work together. Even if she claims to be more of a soubrette deep down in her soul, … Read more
Kolonits Klára In the Győr series we already met Alexa – now she will sing Gounod’s Marguerite for us. This piece is a great example on how you can and should use the orchestral introduction to prepare your entrance. Alexa’s big, dark voice deals surprisingly well with the aria’s ornaments … Read more
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 Norbert’s voice range surprised me already during the warm up. So far, he has been singing mostly baritone pieces – although he claims himself he falls more into the “lazy tenor” category. We continued the work with one of the most famous pieces from Bánk Bán, the Drinking … Read more
Klára Kolonits We often hear the saying that if one sings Mozart well, they can sing anything well. Of course, this is an oversimplification, different roles require different vocal parametres and vocal techniques, but there is also truth in it – be it Wagner or Verdi, or Puccini as in … Read more
Klára Kolonits During the Győr Master Class I met two gentlemen who as a consequence of their experiences in teaching music and choir singing, decided to study singing professionally a bit later in life. I such cases the voice type can be a question even for the individual himself. Norbert … Read more
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
Klára Kolonits In the classical singing, regardless where we are in our journey, everybody aims for perfectly smooth register change, spotless vocal line. During my Győr master class I tried to bring my young colleagues’ attention to this already in the scales, and in today’s episode I would like to … Read more
Kolonits Klára During my Master Class in Győr, I encountered an aria, which is a great example to illustrate what I talked about in our previous episode about Mozart. An aria from La Finta giardiniera – which Mozart wrote at the age of 18 – “Noi donne poverine” can present … Read more
Klára Kolonits, Győr Master Class participants The first round of the Győr course was for me mostly about getting to know the students. We talked about the voice types, the favorite pieces, the vocal problems – and of course we sang. Already during the warm-up, some participants’ claimed vocal identity … Read more