Vocal tips for opera singers: Joyce DiDonato Masterclass in full (The Royal Opera)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- World renowned mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato gives a vocal masterclass with artists from the National Opera Studio as part of the Royal Opera House Insights series. Find out more at www.roh.org.uk
American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato made her Royal Opera debut in 2003 as Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen), and has since returned to sing Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni, including on tour with The Royal Opera to Japan), Cendrillon, Elena (La donna del lago), Maria Stuarda, Charlotte (Werther) and in Plácido Domingo’s 2012 Operalia concert. She returns in the 2017/18 Season to sing Semiramide and in a main-stage recital with Antonio Pappano.
DiDonato grew up in Kansas and studied music education at Wichita State University and singing at the Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia, on the Santa Fe Opera’s Apprentice Singer Program (1995) and on San Francisco Opera’s Merola Young Artists Program (1997). She won second prize in Operalia in 1998 and has gone on to win international acclaim in bel canto and other repertories. Engagements include Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Sycorax (The Enchanted Island), Angelina (La Cenerentola), Isolier (Le Comte Ory) and Maria Stuarda for the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Cendrillon for the Liceu, Barcelona, Rosina for Vienna State Opera, Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) for La Scala, Milan, Idamante (Idomeneo) for Paris Opéra and Edinburgh Festival, Elena for Paris Opéra and Santa Fe Festival and Sister Helen Prejean (Heggie’s Dead Man Walking), Béatrice (Béatrice et Bénédict) for Houston Grand Opera, Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) in concert for Deutsche Oper Berlin and Didon (Les Troyens) with Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra.
DiDonato appears regularly at the world’s leading concert halls and sang at the 2013 BBC Last Night of the Proms. Her wide discography includes seven solo albums. She was the 2010 Gramophone Artist of the Year, won a Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo in 2012 and in 2015 won Female Singer of the Year at the ECHO Klassik Awards.
This is hard work by the students and not easy in front of an audience, a camera. Very impressive. Also, great coaching.
A REALLY great master class...!!!
John Adams what's impressing? All that bad singing?...
They need to be thrown in the deep end and be made to sing for an audience right from the start and not just their loving parents and friends, either because these will never tell children just how atrocious they sound and look and so they get a false idea of their abilities (or lack of). If they have any basic talent, they need honest critical acclaim and an unknown audience cheering or jeering is the most honest and useful appraisal to help them deveop their talent. Or make thewise decision that they would be far better off pursuing an office worker career and sing for fun in the shower as they get ready for the office...
@@joebloggs619 actually what you said is bullshit. you never met my mother xD she will tell me to "stfu", whenever i train at home, because for her opera is screaming and she wants chill and silence, all my life she told me to stop chasing my singing dreams and go to a normal work, because for her singing is useless path to take, and she always makes comments to make me feel inferior when it comes to my singing, looks, anything. and trust me, im a good singer. so dont push the idea that parents wont criticize children, because every parent is different. some parents will lie to their children to make them feel good, some will be realistic with them and some toxic, like my mother.
I got to sing in a masterclass when I took a voice class to satisfy an art credit in college. It most certainly is nerve wracking to say the least.
Breath control is so important and this is the crux of her lesson. Legato and voice control.
"singing into a hairbrush"... spot on!
Ms DiDonato is so full of nice, authentic, real-life humour that it is a pleasure to listen to her even when she's "just" talking.
I used to use a spray can
That exercise of subdividing and stressing/energizing different notes of the subdivision is one of the first exercises my violin teacher gave to me, didn't know singers did it. Is so good to make you understand and internalize the notes.
And the physicality Joyce makes you remember in music is so spot on. Is so easy for musicians to freeze and get stuck because they don't prepare in the right way, remembering they have a body and that the music has to go through it. I've seen people study a piece for hours a day for months and still have a hard time with it, me included, because the practice was limited to fingers and brain only, the body was there just to care it.
THANKS FOR THE CLASS !!
Well said!
I was so inspired when studying the Kodály pedagogy of music making... always beginning with the Body as the prime musical instrument, (i.e., singing) and working out from there,
Can't recommend enough if you're not familiar!?
new joyce masterclass? my day is made
Mine too ! (and the following days also)
The masterclasses with Joyce DiDonato make me SO happy!!!!! Wonderful.
You don’t understand that you are writing utter nonsense! This teacher understands almost nothing about academic singing. Judging by your comment, you don't understand either. The work shown here is a fraud, behind which there is nothing but emptiness. Who needs deep singing while exhaling??? When every note is in a completely different place!
Joyce is so expressive with hand and body shapes? How the singers understand this is truly amazing! Feeling the twists and turns, and ‘spins?’ I wish I understood it? Breath control?? Incredible! Plus the musical maths!! Wow!! Vibrato beating 16ths?
Um, that beautiful contemporary flare at 48:14 is stunning. Her voice, as a whole, is absolutely gorgeous. I relate to the second singer because I’m more of an auditory and a kinesthetic learner. I love sight-reading and sight-singing but often times my expression overshadows the academics of the piece. I suck at rhythm and I have to establish ways of both hearing and feeling it over and over again so that I can experience it in my body.
And, Joyce, wow - just wow. I will never tire of her. She is otherworldly. We do not deserve her. My soul is eternally fed. Thank you.
I’m using her advices for my very audition in one week, I’m Mezzo-soprano with soprano tendency 😊 wish me success!
Don't, don't, don't! Follow someone else's advice!
Diomedes why?
Loved the first student's voice! So expressive!
Re the first singer: Right away I could hear that she had no legato; the notes didn't connect to each other. What fascinated me was how Joyce DiDonato got her to sing legato using subdivision. I'm going to add that to my repertoire of coaching techniques. DiD. is such a lovely person--so warm and encouraging.
Philip Kuttner right. I was immediately intrigued when she started to suggest 8th notes
What an amazing teacher and such a great opportunity for the upcoming stars.
This is so great. Thank you for posting and more, please!
such a GREAT teacher...!
You don’t understand that you are writing utter nonsense! This teacher understands almost nothing about academic singing. Judging by your comment, you don't understand either. The work shown here is a fraud, behind which there is nothing but emptiness. Who needs deep singing while exhaling??? When every note is in a completely different place!
I'm strongly feeling tempted to learn to sing opera.
Omg. I'm singing when I am laid for a concert and this was so helpful! Such a lovely teacher too!
I like how both students and teachers were smiling and enjoying themselves! It’s nice to see such passion!
She is such an amazing teacher! She piles compliments on the student and then simply asks them to do a task. Then offers instruction, feedback and insight while the student does the exercise. Just brilliant.
Nope, she's a bad teacher.
@@xxsaruman82xx87 clearly that’s what not the Royal Opera House, Carnegie Hall, Juilliard, etc think.
@@Theaterofthepilgrammige Appealing to authority…
You don’t understand that you are writing utter nonsense! This teacher understands almost nothing about academic singing. Judging by your comment, you don't understand either. The work shown here is a fraud, behind which there is nothing but emptiness. Who needs deep singing while exhaling??? When every note is in a completely different place!
@@xxsaruman82xx87 yes!
What an amazing singer and teacher ❤️The art of dramatic movement and breath. So amazing to watch something come alive!!!
you are in a terrible delusion. this teacher is very bad: the basics of singing involve singing all notes while holding a breath in one position. And here all the notes are in different places and the singing itself is VERY DEEP! That's horrible!!!
Building a voice is like creating a beautiful violin!
you are in a terrible delusion. this teacher is very bad: the basics of singing involve singing all notes while holding a breath in one position. And here all the notes are in different places and the singing itself is VERY DEEP! That's horrible!!!
How is @54:50 not the single most viewed moment? That experience is incomparable
Can I say I love this wonderfull singer?
I‘d Love to get only one lesson by that amazing woman!
MAGIC. A sorceress.
I liked lot! I learn fluid english by fast speack and I hear opera! ¡What I like lot!
"Dido" is more present.
Well done, and I wish you a successful carreer.
WHAT the hell is this sorcery?!?! This is straight up magic
I wish I could go back in time and have a do over...I'd definitely go into music (classical)
Craig Sorrells why not take a stab at being a classical musician now? It’s never too late to go after your dreams. You’ve just got to do it.
Exquisite !
This is great advices for any kind of singers
Beautiful voice
Joyce is an amazing ballerina!!!!😍
Ok, I'm sure this woman's great, but from the thumbnail I got extremely excited to hear Robyn talk.
Love love love this!
This is amazing
Amazing
is it just me, or has this video a really soft sound setting. other videos are much louder
semme semmson i think the curtains swallow most sound :(
True!
I agree. Had my volume at max at several points
Perhaps I missed something, but ....... Who were the singers being coached, please!? The first, acknowledged only as "Polly", has a voice I could listen to forever..
And how brave the last student is... to sing Non piu mesta, such a difficult coloratura aria of Rossini..and she's actually not bad. And quite clever enough to understand what she's taught. Anyone who sings Rossini's aria should be especially careful not to make the agile notes as if it were a kikiriki.
Does Ms. DiDonato ever work with older singers (40+ yo) or mainly justly younger singers?
Most of what I've seen are masterclasses with college or emerging artists. It would be interesting to see her coach singers in their 40s, 50s even if they're more amateur to see how they respond as well. It'd be awesome
just wow!
Joyce's attitude toward masterclasses is so healthy. So many artists out there just absolutely decimate musicians in that setting, and it's damaging. Permanently damaging.
I want to sing.
Last girl is amazing!!!!! My goodness.
This could have been me
I just love how Joyce sets up a safe learning environment from the onset. She is a true teacher! And oh, what a singer. Time to go listen to her sing "Thy Hand, Belinda."
Min. 49:06
Big keys to success
¹ Know what you do better than most people and do that.
² Know what your biggest weakness is and improve it so that it doesn't control you.
I get butterflies in my stomach every time a new masterclass with joyce is posted!!!
I am stupidly excited because yesterday I found out that there are master classes open to public and she'll be doing some in NYC when I am visiting.
HOW WONDERFUL to be so inspired!!!
Here in the West of Ireland, there is no visiting artists so Grazie a Dio there is UA-cam for now...
@@grazia23 Did you go? If so How was it?
@@MissCaraMint Yes, at Carnegie Hall, they hold them regularly apparently. It was pure joy, really, she was just wonderful!
grazia23 Oh wow. How are the singers chosen? Are they scedualed long ahead of time? I would love to have her tell me everything I’m doing wrong and how to fox it.
Now here is (finally!) a master class teacher who literally doesn't only want to hear her own voice, but that of her students just as much. Unlike the formidable ES, she lets them sing their aria straight through before knuckling in. The most intelligent way, since thusly she gets the total impression, the total interpretation, such as the student desires to get across. With ES, it became rapidly clear that she wanted to imprint in her students her own interpretation, so it was rare they got through 2 phrases w/o interruption. Love DiDonato's smile as she listens, the interest in her regard. Nothing more laudable in a teacher, except, ofc the teaching that follows, always kind, precise, attentive, respectful & lots of fun. Her applause alone is praise. But then she does praise before going into possible improvements. The students benefit from her musicianship as well as from her teaching techniques, which are frankly impressive. Not all singers or practising artists have that ability.
who is ES? i'm not an opera expert though i do enjoy it
@@anxietyace7825 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. You can see her masterclasses on UA-cam. After five minutes of her relentless criticism, the students can barely sing anymore.
@@philipkuttner7945 thanks for telling me. i'm curious to watch her approach, though i know i'll hate it! real learning comes from people like joyce.
@@anxietyace7825 To be fair, Schwarzkopf was equally critical of herself, and her husband, Walter Legge, who produced her records and many others for EMI, was even harsher with her. But that's not a good way to teach, I'm sure you'll agree.
Callas also let them sing all the way through before critiquing
I don’t know the first thing about operatic singing, my experience being limited to English Church choral music.....but wow...I was browsing UA-cam and and came across this. But I was a teacher for 30 years and Joyce is a fantastic teacher. I think I’m going to spend a lot of time today watching Royal Opéra House vids today.
Warrendoe welcome to this amazing world! :) ps: you should also look around for other of Joyce's masterclasses. They're all fantastic!
Operatic singing is a ridiculous amount of work and effort. It's nothing short of sport and art at the same time. One of the most intense things there is at highest level in terms of the combo of physical energy and mental artistry required
Stone I agree, I started classical singing as hobby and it’s one of the most difficult things I did in my life
Regarding the "gioco", "giuoco" thing in "Non più mesta": they're the same, they both mean "game"... the one with the "u" in it is an older, archaic form we don't use anymore. But probably Rossini did write "giUoco", cause at that time the "u" was still pronounced. Nowadays we use "gioco", probably we felt that the "u" was useless lol. That is why Joyce was sure it was "Gioco", because she's quite used to hear italians speaking italian and we say it that way.
Grazie Mateo! Greetings ;)
Anyway, looking online the various librettos, I find "Gioco" and not GIUOCO... And Giuoco is a nightmare to sing, so GIOCO it is :D
the girl singing Thy Hand, Belinda has a phenomenally beautiful voice, so tragic!
@SMD 014 I get you. I was all the more impressed by the huge difference the coaching made.
@SMD 014 It didn’t seem fully controlled in the beginning but I also think she has a lovely voice.
this is a master class for any person who wants to sing with love!
You don’t understand that you are writing utter nonsense! This teacher understands almost nothing about academic singing. Judging by your comment, you don't understand either. The work shown here is a fraud, behind which there is nothing but emptiness. Who needs deep singing while exhaling??? When every note is in a completely different place!
When she worked with the second girl, at the end, when she corrected her those energy feelings, i cried so much.
I cried too! This was huge!!
me, too... and i the last woman made me so happy... great singers are great storytellers, you don't just have to understand the story, you have to feel it :)
Absolutely! I firs thought Joyce was being a bit harsh on her but look what she enabled her to do! It was so intense
I just about gave that mezzo at the end a standing ovation. To sing that aria, under ANY circumstances, is ridiculously difficult. To sing it in front of an audience AND the mezzo that many would argue is the best of her generation (and a Rossini specialist to boot?)....damn. I honestly was cheering at the end of this, and I hope that young woman holds on to everything she learned in that half hour, because the difference in her singing was extraordinary!
Christopher Clough thank you very much!! I learned a lot on this day and to have it recorded means I can revisit it whenever I need to :)
you're really great, sinead!!!
@@152Sinead keep going love it!
“Now I want to be an opera singer and so everything I do must be perfect. 𝐎𝐡. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭.” OMG YESSS😂😂😂
OMG that second girl when Joyce brought all that emotion out of her, I was nearly crying.
for me... it wasn't "nearly". ;)
Tears from *both* eyes, me
Especially from 56:18
(or 59:05 if one can't wait!) till 1:02:11
Going to check out that piece now by Purcell..... 💗
i'm a pianist but i was transfixed by this; i watched the whole thing, this was friggin' awesome!
I have met Joyce and she's the REAL DEAL. She is an appreciator of music and interested in the people who sing it. This is not typical in a field that is highly competitive and demands perfection, even on the college level. I was a music major and we connected well. To have had her as a vocal coach would have been nothing short of inspiring. When it comes to vocal coaching, Joyce BRINGS IT!
The room is sucking away all the ring and the echos :( But glad this is online and I love Joyce
Joyce DiDonato is one of the greatest voice teachers around. I just love the way she puts students at ease, gives them her full attention and encourages them instead of demeaning them. Her advice is invaluable and so useful for all of us who are trying to master singing!
Their work on the Purcell had me in tears. Brilliant coaching!
Joyce DiDonato is becoming a great pedagogue! My Gawd, keep teaching like this! You are totally and completely relatable!!
I love the first singer. Great acting, Not overdone. So nice to see.
When I see this now I understand how beautiful music is. It's a complete and so delicate construction of emotion in information. The work of it is simply perplexing. When people explains music this really opens a new road and respect to these artists for all the struggling they do to get it perfect.
I adore Joyce!! Thank you for posting the whole thing. She’s blowing my mind.
her voice is fantastic; and her pedagogy, an equal match!
davvero ?!
ahahahahahahahahahah !
This is so beautiful! Every problem in music is solved by rhythm! Finally a classical singer/musician who understands. Listen to how Joyce controls her vibrato. She can keep straight notes like Natalie Dessay. The intelligence of a singer in any genre lies in how they use their vibrato and the girl here vibrates all the time from the beginning of the note on. It eats up all the energy. Can I hear a straight note please?
Nailed it! Yes, vibrato is the key - you are not just projecting notes, you are infusing them with emotion, and storytelling.
Straight tone? This isn't a Lutheran choir. Smh...
This first example makes you realize the interpretative combination of not only singing but acting, artistry, emotion, language and confidence!
I enjoy this so much! It is not only for singers, all musicians, performers, she is so great on details. This is amazing!
I will never understand why people dislike videos like these...
Everyone of us had a different view of things, that ia a fact, i love this video but luckly we all are different, of course im a talking about deep personal stuff.
Cheers
Same.
I never understand why ppl comment on the amount of dislikes
cause of all the melodrama... lol
Easy: she sings wrongly and teaches wrong singing. Don't get yourself distracted by her lovelyness.
This needs to be on tv, a series.
She seems a very good teacher , but I feel like her resonance is so nasal .... I’m not a vocal teacher and I do not criticize her teaching because the way she made the Lady free and connect her voice so great but I think her voice is a nasal resonance
Of she's extremely nasal, among other flaws! Who can say she's not? Who can say that's not a serious problem? And the worse thing is that she's teaching that to young singers, among with other weird nonsense stuff.
This is so beautiful, and Joyce DiDonato is a Master and a delight. I will never be an opera singer, but I learned so much from listening to her. To can truly see and 'feel', the adjustments she brings to these very courageous students. The Sing-Sing story blew me away. If anyone understand the tragedy of life and death it's an opera singer.
I wish I could be an opera singer!
Well, just put the work in!! :)
Olivia Graham me to but I'm only 12
it is just a lot of work, the younger you are the best it is to start :)
If you have no laryngeal damage (nodes for instance) and if you can match pitch, then you CAN be an opera singer! Find the right teacher for you and know that it takes years. Whether you make a living at it is a different conversation. Go for it!
Susan Vaughan
very funny but so true
The audio was too low for my Android
I thought of Baroque opera as static compared to later era. But Ms DiD brought out such rich meaning from the Purcell piece and its sensitive singer. I had to watch and re-watch the transformation.
To be able to have access to a full masterclass with this quality, one click away on UA-cam, it’s such a treat! 🧡
Good to see that she is not like other 'masters' who only think that they are the only ones perfect in this world and do nothing but criticizing and diminishing any attempt by the students. Oh yes, you know that there are a couple of GUYS out there that do that with others. I think that they are afraid to accept that someone else can bet them at singing. They are like old college PhDs from prestigious universities who will not accept any theories from emerging geniuses. Only what they say is valid.
SomeoneCommenting Unfortunately there are bad teachers, who had no good training, or no passion for their profession and the people no matter what age their students are. Those teacher ones have done a lot of hurting others by feeling great about themselves and no consideration for the emotional damage they can cause to students. What helps? Finding a better teacher if possible. Unfortunately the discouragement of bad teachers do is also discouraging talent in not so confident but talented students, it can be pretty bad on people and society losses in talents. I try to encourage people, if I see talent. And a good word can work miracles!! Do the same, making up and helping this way is good . This lady here is an excellent teacher and very much in the present and highly alert and participating with her wonderful way to teach. One of those great exceptions for the lucky students! Good luck for your personell development and believe in yourself, you are worth it.
You know a teacher and the students are really good when this was a complete emotional roller coaster to watch! So wonderful and helpful!
I like her way of coaching love it i'm a mezzo soprano but still struggling to hit the right note this video made my day 😇
room acoustics are trash, good masterclass
2nd aria in the end, I cried wow!! What a difference
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Non si capisce nulla! L italiano va studiato meglio!
Non piu mesta is so dramatically improved! She was adding so much age to her voice by singing in her throat, so getting it out was primary. Huge improvement!
amazing
when i try to produce vocal sound i only manage to spit crows out of my mouth
I have the advantage of being new to opera ! Few weeks in, so everthing sounds just perfect.
Can't believe I've come from metal to Opera
Gosh, I loove Joyce's master classes!! Wonderful person and a teacher as well as the performer!
I don't mean to speak out in comment, but I lost it emotionally at 1:02:54. The expressiveness moved me. "Remember me" was such a plea that my empathy could not go without.
Thank you ! I was literally complaining the other day that because of today's culture of perfectionism there is no space left for learning. Given the range of opportunities and material and internet, we're just supposed to be all and know it all without any practice. I love that you're bringing back the fundamentals of becoming great, which is, starting SOMEWHERE ! and from that somewhere having the space and care of others to work it out through mistakes until you're confident and comfortable at a higher level than before. So again thank you !! I wish for all the gods out there that this would be taken as an example at all Universities !
Giuoco is the archaic or poetic or pompous form of gioco. Not necessarily “wrong Italian” per se (as mentioned by others it’s also in the name of the Italian soccer federation). BUT the Rossini manuscript actually reads “gioco” as Joyce said, I’ve just checked the scans available online.
I was about to write that, as soon as I heard them talk about it. Giuoco is a literary form that is not used anymore, apart from the name of the Italian Football Fédération.
I. Iíl8. I Ohio to ii8í iirc iirc iirc on
She is the best teacher I've ever seen teach anything. Its awe inspiring
After searching for a quite good hour for videos on how to improve flute breathing technique I ended up here.
This is a stunning lecture, the best I have seen.
Now I need a flutist with the same ability to teach... or a may not, applicable tips right here, thank you for uploading.
Todays generation concentrate too much on the skill and cannot match it with any feeling or is it just me.
omg that Dido was everutjomg, she was completely there
Thanks for share this. The second singer is wonderful, she really sings!
She started of with hintting that not all of them would have a succesful carrier or am i wrong?(English is my second language). That was not so great..
She helps them blossom.
I have pretty much no appreciation for opera, but I sure do love watching masters of their craft at work. Looking forward to watching this in its entirety later on. :D
I totally can’t understand how they were teaching and learning,but I am obsessed with this marvelous teaching video,a great teacher
I thought I “felt” music till I saw this. Absolutely transfixing!