Incredible warm up so intense and exciting it's like a fire than burns inside his belly and must be released, extremely inspirational as I say a singer is a painter of sound and here we are permitted to watch and hear the Maestro mix his colours and brushes before he approaches the canvas stage . Artist Musician Humanitarian Bravo Placido !
Es una figura internacional y que voz tan fina. Felicidades Placido ! Y de los mejores intérpretes de Wagner dicho por los mismos alemanes. Vamos ni los mismos alemanes tienen tenores como él. Solo Pavarotti y Carreras tienen ese nivel y don. Bravo Placido!! por darnos magnificas interprestaciones. Dios te bendiga!
sometimes, you gotta work, no one has a good day everyday.. sometimes you gotta work at the warmup stage, take a break for a while, then restart...it could be a way he hypes himself up.
Hi all, I am late to the party on this, having just seen this. I find the negative comments on this amazing. I have had considerable vocal training as a baritone and can see easily enough two things which some commentators are ignorant if. First, Domingo is at no time tense. Second, his scales are designed to get his forward placement in the zone. Opera singers know that placement is the key and if xou csn get the 'ee' sound comfortable you are mostly there. I find it incredible that people with little or no knowledge would even dare to question the technique of probably the greatest all round opera talent if the last 30 years. Those who only know and laud Pavarotti just display their ignorance. Pavarotti was a unique talent but technically not as solid as Domingo. Sorry, that's just a fact that anyone with real knowledge of the art understands. In this video, Domingo was doing nothing nothing more nor less than very rapid, efficient vocal warm ups with scale patterns centred around the ee vowel to get forward placement and consustency of placement and that 'ping' that opera singers need.
Negative comments about Domingo are absurd.. I agree and i agree with your above comment. Commentators are so ignorant on youtube re/ opera. The words people write are just so very strange. Stunning voives which are flat and just off kilter are praised merely for having a top note. Flat singing and whining are celebrated.. wobbly out of diction , muddled , over glossed and monovchromatic are often praised.. and then one reads negatives about this artist. with occasion he cracked or was dry but that is life. And was certainly not the norm.. except when he sang the wrong roles... which was rarely..Domingo was completely on the body and in the placement and on the throat totally supported. He was never fake. And whilst the voice was uncomfortable above High B natural.. I can attest at seeing him in 2011 he was still extraordinary in the projector zone. The baritonal tone was just part of the dramatic tenor reality. He as a baritone singer now well ..the voice was placed for sooo long as a tenor it still sounds like a dramatic tenor just singing the baritone part. That said the resonance and earthy core and strong iron carrying power is still top class. Even if the voice is well just old now. But really he performed repeatedly over the years and sang a very ful schedule since 1972 really. And this is completely to be expected. A total muscian and his moments on video of Puccini's Manon with te Kanawa are overwhelming emotional and searing. He was incredible as Radames, Dick Johnson and much of the Wagner he sang. His Edgardo is virile to the hilt and his Trovatore and Forza's were gorgeous recordings. Il Duca in Rigoletto and Bohemes and Nemorino roles were a bit too light for him to pull off ..but he did! But he literally had a repertory of 147 roles!! even if only fleeting in live performance of I believe. His Paglicacci and Cavalleria , Pinkerton are stunning. Not to mention his il Tabarro and Don Jose. Seriously. How ANYONE can attack an artist like this ...well they must be ignorant , never saw him live or just bitter. He was and is beyond talented. I met him and he was just so very much a total voice in all of the resonators. An inspiration and a great musician.
Both comments here just show exactly how ignorant people are. Domingo is well known for his poor technique and Pavarotti ( rest in peace ) because of his solid technique after 5 years off stage recycling himself under Arrigo Pola. You claim to know about voices and yet you set Plamingo as an example, as if he were a God. He is but a mediocre singer and a great musician. Great media campaign launched into stardom. Greetings.
@Webarton: Who said anything about sqeezing??? Placido supports how he supports, whatever his facial expression is, who gives a hoot, he is one of the most successfull and famous tenors of all time, so none of us can really say anything about it period...I have been studying Bel Canto long enough to finally understand that each and every singer has to make the "magic" of the voice work for him or her in their own way. No two singers have the same sensastions of support or placement
Most importantly is that all that tension spills into surrounding muscles of the oropharynx and pharynx, squeezing the sound, distorting the vowels and killing resonance.
Question: So, basically the point of the excercises that Domingo is using in this video is endurance or high-note "consistency," right? Now is that a mental and/or physical benefit, in terms of how it can help the voice?
@Darkel1992 Exactly, when I vocalise or sing in the opera chorus Im pushing really hard to support, I just hide it well with my face, I guess Placido cant really hide his intensity as well as some of us. It does look like he uses a lot of jaw though, there is a constant with all bel canto coaches to relax the jaw. I always get busted for using my jaw, and when I do use my jaw I go off pitch, so I really gotta learn to relax it more.
if your technique is right, sitting or standing should not matter, everything you use for singing is above waste so it does not really matter as long as your chest is in not collapsed you can sing. Placido is also an accomplished pianist so he manages well to play and sing at same time.
@Webarton Look up Franco Tenelli and his UA-cam videos....the first half of his videos, he stresses so much on Appogio, and open throat, and dropped larinx, but in his later videos he underlines that it is up to the student to master this in his or her own way. and if that means having some "tense" looking facial expressions time to time, then so be it! Because those singers are laughing to the bank! not that this business is about money, but we all gotta eat right!
i realize they are completely different tenors, but while physically we are all made differently, mechanically we are all the same, ie we all have lungs, diaphram, nasal pharengeal cavaties etc. just because 2 people are different doesnt mean they are both doing things correctly they are just different. musically is a different matter im just speaking of technical mastery.
@Webarton: and if you take 100 lessons from 100 teachers, you'll get 100 diffrent ideas. Bottom line, what works for you works for you, what works for Placido works for Placido, Luciano, Caballe, etc! My teacher who is 80 years old, who sang at Scala and all over Europe and sand along side Pavarotti, Caballe, Horne and more, she finally admitted to me after years of training that I have my instrument and only I can make it work. Sure there are basic fundamental ideas, but unltimately, its you
Thanks for posting, I don't think that he looks "tense" in doing his preparations, to me he looks concentrated, I'd rather say "focussed" on what he'll be going to do later. He's always a very serious artist and worker!
Well if that is the case. Then how do you explain Placido Domingo, one of the greatest tenors of all time, having that "tense" face? I was just trying to answer your question buddy. I've seen singers with opera training not have a tense face, but my instructor (who studied in Italy for 29 years) told me that these people are not using enough support and relying on microphones and other means of projection. Placido was probabaly warming up while visualizing a full theater in his head with no mic
Ganz genau. Erstaunlich ist auch, wie geschickt Domingo knapp innerhalb 3 Min., zwar beim Laufen des Korridors vom Bühneneingang zu seinem Zimmer und beim Ausziehen des Mantels, der Krawatte und der Jacke seine Stimme im Griff bekommt. Die Übung ist sehr gut ausgedacht mit dem Wechsel der Vokalen, mit dem allmählich erweiterten Stimmumfang, mit dem Terzsprung und Arpeggio etc. und sehr empfehlungswert für alle, z. B. auch für Redner, wer seine Stimme schnell kontrollieren und vorbereiten will.
Singing opera is like the Olympics of singing. It takes a lot of internal support to hit such notes consistantly, especially the way Placido is vocalizing them in this video. Like any other olympic athlete, they naturally look tense because they are using all of their strength and concentration to execute with precision. If you are singing and not getting a work out, then sorry to say, you are not singing with correct support.
Self awareness is something that your kind of people really lack. Chiaroscuro, chest voice, squillo,old school italian, Melocchi, Domingo bad, Corelli good blablah, I could make a bingo out of the vague terms you use like parrots ad nauseam on youtube to make your point. Guess what, the validity of the point you're trying to make isn't obvious to anyone with half a functionning brain since none of you made 5% of the career of the singers you like to criticize so much here.
i agree partially with what you are saying. muscles are indeed involved and yes there will be tension as a result of supporting but it will all be in the form of resistance during support. as far as the face you do want involvement in the diction because if not the tongue will have to compensate which is bad. placido's style of singing is to push. the higher he goes the harder he pushes. it works for him but its not the optimal technique. pavarotti on the other hand does it correctly and easily.
Incredible warm up so intense and exciting it's like a fire than burns inside his belly and must be released, extremely inspirational as I say a singer is a painter of sound and here we are permitted to watch and hear the Maestro mix his colours and brushes before he approaches the canvas stage . Artist Musician Humanitarian Bravo Placido !
Es una figura internacional y que voz tan fina.
Felicidades Placido !
Y de los mejores intérpretes de Wagner dicho por los mismos alemanes.
Vamos ni los mismos alemanes tienen tenores como él.
Solo Pavarotti y Carreras tienen ese nivel y don.
Bravo Placido!! por darnos magnificas interprestaciones.
Dios te bendiga!
To me, the greatest of all!
Placido has been know to really get himself into character, even during warm up
His technique certainly works for him. listen to that golden sound. And who can argue with a 50 year career?
Puikus prasidainavimas!👏👏👏
sometimes, you gotta work, no one has a good day everyday.. sometimes you gotta work at the warmup stage, take a break for a while, then restart...it could be a way he hypes himself up.
I love Placido!!!!
Maestro Placido Domingo 🌹 ís genios Supertenor, probebly the best tenór 🎶🎵😄🎶💗
Маэстро ПЛАСИДО Доминго - ЖИВИТЕ ДОЛГО!!!
Hi all, I am late to the party on this, having just seen this. I find the negative comments on this amazing. I have had considerable vocal training as a baritone and can see easily enough two things which some commentators are ignorant if. First, Domingo is at no time tense. Second, his scales are designed to get his forward placement in the zone. Opera singers know that placement is the key and if xou csn get the 'ee' sound comfortable you are mostly there. I find it incredible that people with little or no knowledge would even dare to question the technique of probably the greatest all round opera talent if the last 30 years. Those who only know and laud Pavarotti just display their ignorance. Pavarotti was a unique talent but technically not as solid as Domingo. Sorry, that's just a fact that anyone with real knowledge of the art understands. In this video, Domingo was doing nothing nothing more nor less than very rapid, efficient vocal warm ups with scale patterns centred around the ee vowel to get forward placement and consustency of placement and that 'ping' that opera singers need.
Negative comments about Domingo are absurd.. I agree and i agree with your above comment. Commentators are so ignorant on youtube re/ opera. The words people write are just so very strange. Stunning voives which are flat and just off kilter are praised merely for having a top note. Flat singing and whining are celebrated.. wobbly out of diction , muddled , over glossed and monovchromatic are often praised.. and then one reads negatives about this artist. with occasion he cracked or was dry but that is life. And was certainly not the norm.. except when he sang the wrong roles... which was rarely..Domingo was completely on the body and in the placement and on the throat totally supported. He was never fake. And whilst the voice was uncomfortable above High B natural.. I can attest at seeing him in 2011 he was still extraordinary in the projector zone. The baritonal tone was just part of the dramatic tenor reality. He as a baritone singer now well ..the voice was placed for sooo long as a tenor it still sounds like a dramatic tenor just singing the baritone part. That said the resonance and earthy core and strong iron carrying power is still top class. Even if the voice is well just old now. But really he performed repeatedly over the years and sang a very ful schedule since 1972 really. And this is completely to be expected. A total muscian and his moments on video of Puccini's Manon with te Kanawa are overwhelming emotional and searing. He was incredible as Radames, Dick Johnson and much of the Wagner he sang. His Edgardo is virile to the hilt and his Trovatore and Forza's were gorgeous recordings. Il Duca in Rigoletto and Bohemes and Nemorino roles were a bit too light for him to pull off ..but he did!
But he literally had a repertory of 147 roles!! even if only fleeting in live performance of I believe. His Paglicacci and Cavalleria , Pinkerton are stunning. Not to mention his il Tabarro and Don Jose. Seriously.
How ANYONE can attack an artist like this ...well they must be ignorant , never saw him live or just bitter. He was and is beyond talented. I met him and he was just so very much a total voice in all of the resonators. An inspiration and a great musician.
Daniel Raphael totally agree!
Both comments here just show exactly how ignorant people are. Domingo is well known for his poor technique and Pavarotti ( rest in peace ) because of his solid technique after 5 years off stage recycling himself under Arrigo Pola. You claim to know about voices and yet you set Plamingo as an example, as if he were a God. He is but a mediocre singer and a great musician. Great media campaign launched into stardom. Greetings.
Yess beautiful 😃
@Webarton: Who said anything about sqeezing??? Placido supports how he supports, whatever his facial expression is, who gives a hoot, he is one of the most successfull and famous tenors of all time, so none of us can really say anything about it period...I have been studying Bel Canto long enough to finally understand that each and every singer has to make the "magic" of the voice work for him or her in their own way. No two singers have the same sensastions of support or placement
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Most importantly is that all that tension spills into surrounding muscles of the oropharynx and pharynx, squeezing the sound, distorting the vowels and killing resonance.
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Question: So, basically the point of the excercises that Domingo is using in this video is endurance or high-note "consistency," right?
Now is that a mental and/or physical benefit, in terms of how it can help the voice?
Name of this movie?
@Darkel1992 Exactly, when I vocalise or sing in the opera chorus Im pushing really hard to support, I just hide it well with my face, I guess Placido cant really hide his intensity as well as some of us. It does look like he uses a lot of jaw though, there is a constant with all bel canto coaches to relax the jaw. I always get busted for using my jaw, and when I do use my jaw I go off pitch, so I really gotta learn to relax it more.
stop comparing yourself to him
Er - how do you sit down, and play the piano, and sing high notes - so well!
It's difficult enough to do them standing up...
if your technique is right, sitting or standing should not matter, everything you use for singing is above waste so it does not really matter as long as your chest is in not collapsed you can sing. Placido is also an accomplished pianist so he manages well to play and sing at same time.
People do get a bit tense without noticing it. Warming up is a little stressful when you think about it. :)
It does TAKE a lot of effort, however that doesn't mean that it should look like it does.
@Webarton Look up Franco Tenelli and his UA-cam videos....the first half of his videos, he stresses so much on Appogio, and open throat, and dropped larinx, but in his later videos he underlines that it is up to the student to master this in his or her own way. and if that means having some "tense" looking facial expressions time to time, then so be it! Because those singers are laughing to the bank! not that this business is about money, but we all gotta eat right!
i realize they are completely different tenors, but while physically we are all made differently, mechanically we are all the same, ie we all have lungs, diaphram, nasal pharengeal cavaties etc. just because 2 people are different doesnt mean they are both doing things correctly they are just different. musically is a different matter im just speaking of technical mastery.
@Webarton: and if you take 100 lessons from 100 teachers, you'll get 100 diffrent ideas. Bottom line, what works for you works for you, what works for Placido works for Placido, Luciano, Caballe, etc! My teacher who is 80 years old, who sang at Scala and all over Europe and sand along side Pavarotti, Caballe, Horne and more, she finally admitted to me after years of training that I have my instrument and only I can make it work. Sure there are basic fundamental ideas, but unltimately, its you
Thanks for posting, I don't think that he looks "tense" in doing his preparations, to me he looks concentrated, I'd rather say "focussed" on what he'll be going to do later. He's always a very serious artist and worker!
@Darkel1992 Check out my short video "Vocalizo", I use my jaw and my Maestra scolds me and you can hear me off pitch when I use it lol
@bchainz yeah but you never support by squeezing.
Well if that is the case. Then how do you explain Placido Domingo, one of the greatest tenors of all time, having that "tense" face? I was just trying to answer your question buddy. I've seen singers with opera training not have a tense face, but my instructor (who studied in Italy for 29 years) told me that these people are not using enough support and relying on microphones and other means of projection. Placido was probabaly warming up while visualizing a full theater in his head with no mic
It's very unclear to me what people are actually saying about PD doing these exercises in this film. He's vocalising very fast and intensively.......
I wish that could be transalated to English
Ganz genau. Erstaunlich ist auch, wie geschickt Domingo knapp innerhalb 3 Min., zwar beim Laufen des Korridors vom Bühneneingang zu seinem Zimmer und beim Ausziehen des Mantels, der Krawatte und der Jacke seine Stimme im Griff bekommt. Die Übung ist sehr gut ausgedacht mit dem Wechsel der Vokalen, mit dem allmählich erweiterten Stimmumfang, mit dem Terzsprung und Arpeggio etc. und sehr empfehlungswert für alle, z. B. auch für Redner, wer seine Stimme schnell kontrollieren und vorbereiten will.
A singer's life is boring. All they do is warm up, rehearse, perform, sleep, repeat... 8 to 10 hours non stop.
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Singing opera is like the Olympics of singing. It takes a lot of internal support to hit such notes consistantly, especially the way Placido is vocalizing them in this video. Like any other olympic athlete, they naturally look tense because they are using all of their strength and concentration to execute with precision. If you are singing and not getting a work out, then sorry to say, you are not singing with correct support.
Biggest scam in the operatic world EVER.
Self awareness is something that your kind of people really lack.
Chiaroscuro, chest voice, squillo,old school italian, Melocchi, Domingo bad, Corelli good blablah, I could make a bingo out of the vague terms you use like parrots ad nauseam on youtube to make your point.
Guess what, the validity of the point you're trying to make isn't obvious to anyone with half a functionning brain since none of you made 5% of the career of the singers you like to criticize so much here.
i agree partially with what you are saying. muscles are indeed involved and yes there will be tension as a result of supporting but it will all be in the form of resistance during support. as far as the face you do want involvement in the diction because if not the tongue will have to compensate which is bad. placido's style of singing is to push. the higher he goes the harder he pushes. it works for him but its not the optimal technique. pavarotti on the other hand does it correctly and easily.
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