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Studio Email from July 26

Posted by Patricia Callaway on Monday, August 17, 2020, In : Practice 

Hello everyone,

 

Rainy Saturday and I am woefully unmotivated today.  Sometimes it’s just that way.  Arietha just sent me a link to the Opera America site where there are listings of the various operas (not at the Met) that you can see online:  https://mailchi.mp/operaamerica/live-streams-and-on-demand-content-july-24-2020?e=1b8e4cf56fToday is The Makropulos Case at the San Francisco Opera, and I can’t get up enough gumption to go watch it.  I think it’s still available tomorrow, ...


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Warming Up is Not Hard to Do

Posted by Patricia Callaway on Sunday, October 3, 2010, In : Practice 

Why is it so important to warm up before singing?  For the same reasons that you would stretch before running or  engaging in other major muscular activity.

The muscles of the larynx are small.  The traditional description of the vocal folds is that they are the length of the pink part of your pinkie fingernail.  They exist inside three cartileges that all together are about the size of a walnut.  The muscles that move the larynx cartileges are probably shorter than their names. Everything abo...


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