Hi! Today I'm going to talk you about high notes. High notes are the most important thing of a opera singer, and I'm going to show you the most marvellous high notes of the best opera singers.

 

That song is nessun dorma, that is an aria from puccini's opera: Turandot. In which the tenor sings this aria that is the hardest aria to sing for a tenor it has the famous High C at the end.

 

 

Here you have the highest note that a soprano can sing. It's really surprising

Hi! Did You enjoy my first post? I hope so. Now, in my second post I'm going to talk about vocal range, and how to measure it. Here you have a good video in which you can watch the surprising vocal range of an excellent mezzo-soprano: Cecilia Bartoli:

• In the video, you can see how the singer opens her mouth gradually to reach the highest notes, and how the singer keep a long vibratto to sing easily, these bright notes.  
• And now I'm going to explain you what the vocal range of a person is : Vocal range is the measure of the breadth of pitches that a human voice can phonate, that to say, the vocal range is the measure of the notes that each person can sing..
• Now watch the video bellow and follow the steps to find your vocal range. At the end of the video you have a chart to check your result:

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Welcome to a Opera Blog

Hi! I want to say welcome to my new opera blog. To start with I want to tell you what opera is : Opera is a play whose main feature is singing , that is, all the script and dialogues are sung, but spoken texts are sometimes allows. The talented artists are accompanied by an orchestra, which revels in the music.Opera is related to other genres such as the operetta theater, musicals and Zarzuela. For me the opera is the best genre of all the music types and because of that I'm going to show you in this blog the main characteristic of this marvellous type of music.
To start you in opera world is good you to watch a opera video to begin knowing how opera is, so here you can watch a very good opera video with an excellent mexican tenor : Juan Diego Florez : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4vjvvi8PdQ

Here you have a picture to see a opera theatre