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Mimi Ezust wrote on a topic dear to our hearts:
>Some female singers who use vibrato well: Bubbles in her prime. Flemming,
>fer sure! Elly Ameling. Arlene Auger. Ella Fitzgerald!
And I would add Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, whose calculated control of vibrato
has always impressed me. On the other hand, I have frissons of horror if
I hear British soprano Amanda Roocroft, whose voice flaps like a washing
line's damp bloomers in a gale.
This thread reminds me how much I am enjoying Donald Clarke's life of Frank
Sinatra, "All or Nothing at All" - one passage is apposite:
"Listening to a lot of different kinds of music, the question arises:
why haven't legit singers ever been able to learn from pop singers, and
vice versa? Some opera singers act: Norman Welsby, playing the King in
Henze's "The Bassarids" at the English National Opera in 1974, was
electrifying; but good singing actors in opera are the exception rather
than the rule: they often seem locked into convention to the extent of
counting the number of oscillations in each vibrato, as they they are
afraid to act."
James Kearney
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