That's awful. I don't think that Sonia Prina is a bad singer cause she's a world famous opera singer, but this performance is definitely NOT for her. Her voice is "swim" among the notes, in some part its sharp and weak. She's not a contralto! I heard one mezzo sing that aria and it was gorgeous! So, if she sing like a normal mezzo, she would have not so many problems with her voice, i think.
I love a lot of her singing..BUT in pieces like this, I can hear an uneven technique. The voice moves around too much into different resonance chambers due to her unstable I would assume tongue, tight Jaw and maybe..."placement" type of learned technique approach which is never really good. For a teacher with very acute ear and real knowledge of how the "mechanism" works inside the throat and mouth, I can pretty much 'feel' how she sings...and it can be pretty uncomfortable. The voice shifts from distorted to throaty, from mildly clear to muddy emission..her body movements prove she's not comfortable singing...having said that I am a fan of her voice tone..there are other pieces where the voice sounds way more settled like Vedro con mio diletto.
The problem is that she isn't really an alto, but rather a low mezzo, and she forces the lower notes. She constantly drops her chin to get greater access to the bottom, but it isn't as full as it should be if she was a true alto like Sarah Mingardo or Nathalie Stutzmann (who has a fully baritoned, gorgeous D below middle C). I love Prina at times, and then I can't believe how bad she sounds. Often it is around her break, which is rough. Not the worst I've heard, but still often quite clunky. I think this piece kills mezzos--there is a video of Manuela Custer doing it where she hits her chest voice hard and it hurts. Of the mezzos who sing it, Ann Hallenburg probably does it best.
Immensa.
Pièce redoutable, mais magnifiée par le timbre et la technique quand d un même cœur ces voix chantent
Bravissima!!
mi piace molto!
Agitata infido flatu
Diu volatu
Vagabundo
Maesta hirundo
It plorando
Boni ignara.
Sed impulsu aurae serenae
Tantae cito oblita poenae
In dilecta
Dulcia tecta
Gaudii ridet haud avara
bedankt Vitor Haase
¡Gracias!
Sonia Prina , her voice but very nice too that 'photo' she between all that black outfit men
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That's awful. I don't think that Sonia Prina is a bad singer cause she's a world famous opera singer, but this performance is definitely NOT for her. Her voice is "swim" among the notes, in some part its sharp and weak. She's not a contralto! I heard one mezzo sing that aria and it was gorgeous! So, if she sing like a normal mezzo, she would have not so many problems with her voice, i think.
I love a lot of her singing..BUT in pieces like this, I can hear an uneven technique. The voice moves around too much into different resonance chambers due to her unstable I would assume tongue, tight Jaw and maybe..."placement" type of learned technique approach which is never really good. For a teacher with very acute ear and real knowledge of how the "mechanism" works inside the throat and mouth, I can pretty much 'feel' how she sings...and it can be pretty uncomfortable. The voice shifts from distorted to throaty, from mildly clear to muddy emission..her body movements prove she's not comfortable singing...having said that I am a fan of her voice tone..there are other pieces where the voice sounds way more settled like Vedro con mio diletto.
The problem is that she isn't really an alto, but rather a low mezzo, and she forces the lower notes. She constantly drops her chin to get greater access to the bottom, but it isn't as full as it should be if she was a true alto like Sarah Mingardo or Nathalie Stutzmann (who has a fully baritoned, gorgeous D below middle C). I love Prina at times, and then I can't believe how bad she sounds. Often it is around her break, which is rough. Not the worst I've heard, but still often quite clunky. I think this piece kills mezzos--there is a video of Manuela Custer doing it where she hits her chest voice hard and it hurts. Of the mezzos who sing it, Ann Hallenburg probably does it best.
Since the lyrics of this aria are about distress, perhaps she wanted her voice to sound like that.
In my opinion she also lacks the necessary agility.
Agitata infido flatu
Diu volatu
Vagabundo
Maesta hirundo
It plorando
Boni ignara.
Sed impulsu aurae serenae
Tantae cito oblita poenae
In dilecta
Dulcia tecta
Gaudii ridet haud avara.