Steve Schwartz wrote:

>I've also heard that Wagner is murder on voices, although George Bernard
>Shaw characteristically debunks that idea.  Is it really terrible if one
>knows how to sing? It seems to me that Verdi and Puccini, especially for
>tenors, would wear on the voice more harshly.

Steve, I think it's the size of the forces you have to sing over...  and
some of it is unrelenting singing too, compared to the more separated areas
of the others.

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