Klára Kolonits In the last episode of the year, I try to answer the question that is most frequently asked of me about my series. Everyone is aware that the number of active opera singers is limited, the journey to the stage is difficult, the time spent there is uncertain … 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 In a longer scale that utilises different registers of your voice, you may encounter something similar to the “wall” dreaded by distance runners: a certain point where you feel a significant decrease in your performance. While singing a longer scale or phrase, you may feel tension caused usually … Read more
Klára Kolonits This is not the first sports related parallel in our series, but today we will be working with actual fitness accessories. I will show the stage tricks in the show, wearing the baroque costume of Marguerite de Valois, and also the work behind them. Why the sports “prop … Read more
Klára Kolonits In one of the previous parts (s02e12) I explained what is the purpose of warmup and why is it so important. We also got to the warmup itself, and one of the scales brought up a very interesting topic of passaggio (s02e13). Today we will continue this discussion … 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
Klára Kolonits Today’s topic is an evergreen, they wrote books about it and the discussion is still ongoing: Does passaggio exist? Does a mid-register area exist? Or maybe more than one? During warmup, how do we approach more problematic places? Is it possible to develop an even timbre throughout the … Read more
Klára Kolonits Everyone knows that one colleague who runs into the rehearsal last minute and without any warm-up sings their part rightaway, and very well. Why does he get away with it while other has to do scales for thirty minutes before they can produce a decent sound? What is … Read more