I want to sing Opera

Question

Any tips?!

Answer 1

I  sing opera and you're right the, best thing you can do for yourself is get lessons. Depending on your age it may be too late to get into a really good music college because you will need years of experience and training in operatic singing to be accepted into anywhere like the guildhall (if you live in england, not sure where you live). You can't wake up one day after your first lesson and be able to sing in an operatic voice, it took me a year of lessons to be able to sing like an opera singer. Many young opera singers want to teach on the side to earn a bit of money, thats how i found my teacher when i was eleven.

  I know you want tips so i can give you a few for now but your teacher will be able to help you a lot more than i can. When you are learning to sing opera the most important thing is volume, you can get this safely by pulling in your stomach when you sing and pulling it in suddenly harder for sudden high or low notes (don't do this for a bit because you may strain your voice). A very common singing mistake is trying to sing on not enough air, you won't be able to get anywhere near the volume you want if you snatch a breath a the beginning of a song. You will need to snatch breaths during a song but at the beginning and after any long pause start breathing a few bars before you have to come in. Push out your stomach as you breathe in (do this for all breaths) and during a long breath try to imagine as if the air is filling every part of your body from your toes upwards. In opera you will need some vibrato but this is not crucial, vibrato will come as you train so don't worry about it, some singers don't even have any. You need to take this gently because if you start using all these techniques on an untrained voice that doesn't have much power then you will most likely strain it, sometimes beyond repair.

Hope all this helped, good luck!

Answer 2

The only tips I have are P.G tips.

Time for tea

Answer 3

have a back up plain  

Answer 4

go for it if you can sing and are not afraid of performing in public contact one of the opera house i.e covent garden and ask to speak to their musical director who I'm sure will give you any advice he can --good luck and I hope you succeed

Answer 5

go for it ,and when u sing dont sing from your voice box sing from ur diapram out.Good luck.

Answer 6

Get accepted into a FINE college of music or conservatory, and major in Opera.  I would assume that you are now taking serious private lessons with an exceptional teacher, and have some role experience.  Most Young Artist development programs do not take you until you have completed graduate work (BM and MM in opera) so you are long way from worrying about that.  If you provide us with more information about your current level of preparation, then we can give you better responses.

ADDITION -

So Barry, I just read your other questions.  It seems that OPERA as a possible career is in case wrestling or p**n does not work out for you?  I can see why you might want to move out of your parents' house NOW.  Thanks for just jerking us around.

Answer 7

Make sure you do lots of exercises EVERY day so your voice gets better every day....sorry i couldn't think of anything else becasue i don't sing opera

Answer 8

Go with it. Sing your heart out! Good luck!

Answer 9

Plenty of practice would help having the right voice  as well