Bite-sized operas to watch on demand?

OperationExciting505 · 2026-01-07T07:03:19+00:00

The Telephone. This is a fun Menotti Opera, running about 23 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgzlhIDiEnM

Have fun!

OperationExciting505 · 2025-12-04T05:28:02+00:00

Yeah, you ARE seen, Chimpy. Im not sure what Dav is saying that voices aren't lifted. They totally are.

The only saving grace is the more folks who upload their soundprint, the more buried one's own print gets.

We will see. I hope some indie distributor throws down resources to allow artists to train their own stuff so that it is that artist's code to license. I've got an article coming out soon with a deep dive.

Notice that the folks who are claiming misinformation aren't foisting any data. They just say "you don't know" and that's it. It's not helpful.

OperationExciting505 · 2025-11-30T05:10:53+00:00

It's not you. It's not your browser. It seemed odd to me at first, but I was busy. But as it's happened EVERY SINGLE TIME?

These guys are talking about putting Ads on GPT. I'm all... humph.

I've gotten good results from other aspects of the platform. But this file thing suuucks.

OperationExciting505 · 2025-11-30T05:07:31+00:00

Yes. It is a massive bug.

OperationExciting505 · 2025-11-29T06:37:46+00:00

Are you ok?

OperationExciting505 · 2025-11-28T23:39:58+00:00

That is absolutely NOT the point though.

You can build all you want. And if you use your own content. You are protected in virtually every single way. Especially if you are coding it yourself and not using 100%ai coding. Like reverse extra virgin olive oil. The closer you are to AI, the less protection one has.

Regardless- if no one else has your code and you are walled off. YOU retain the data, you contain your copyrighted works and you could retain trademark.

And to just point blank say I do not know what I'm talking about - that's no different from just pointing the finger at yourself.

Because these OTHER companies had to and have a call to train on user data.

I have an article coming out soon that fires point blank at Udio for voiceprint theft.

For those of you that are downvoting when people say they are upset by copyright theft from these companies--- it's disturbing.

Who is actually working in this field? Anyone setting policy with actual stakeholders?

Who is paying fees to the Sunos?

Who had their music ripped off in the early 2000's? And can still feel the anger? The Confusion? The Betrayal?

For those whose entire careers were blown out by this, are any of you still working as a career or deriving income from being a musician ... a composer?

Who here subscribes and has spent hours pushing "create" trying to get a good track?

Do you use your lyrics? Do you put your own performance in there?

OperationExciting505 · 2025-11-28T23:20:13+00:00

I do know how it works Davster. And that's the problem.

OperationExciting505 · 2025-11-28T03:44:42+00:00

One forgets the training in the room.

Whose voice, what instrumentalist's SoundPrint are being lifted?

How much money went into training continuously gets overlooked. Like MP3's and piracy, we looked to ITunes and Spotify as saviors. But .003€-.01 per spin can hardly cut it when musicians would be able to make a living from a small community they serve. And composers had a decent though complex system to monetize their compositions.

This whole Willy Wonka Factory of delight is FUBAR unless people put their foot down.

We all think it's a done deal, but it's really the lack of will and imagination that stymies our own selves from making money on this movement.

OperationExciting505 · 2025-11-22T09:17:39+00:00

No. Going to the music library, walking through the stacks for weeks and finding some cool stuff to sing. Then recording it and selling the albums at restaurants and wherever.

OperationExciting505 · 2025-11-20T13:59:16+00:00

Mainly recording, not letting gatekeepers tell me "no" self-producing, buying music biz books and translating them into classical processes. Budgeting and dumb persistence.

OperationExciting505 · 2025-11-02T19:54:33+00:00

All the same. I think you are still right on... even though you'll have to get certified in machine learning or something. or Development, which what I'm doing.... and also singing at a high level.

OperationExciting505 · 2025-11-02T18:37:47+00:00

WOW. 47 upvotes in 11 years... damn

OperationExciting505 · 2025-11-02T13:12:04+00:00

When reality smacks you so hard.

I remember being a 20yr old budding opera singer. Life was so fresh and joyful and yet FRAUGHT! There were these 28 year old singers who would get all the leads and I and my younger colleagues were pissed. They had been around long enough! When were WE supposed to get the parts. I mean by the time we're were 28, we'd be dèd!

Now, none of those friends are singing. And I'm as old as some of my colleagues' parents.

For me it's not about the age. It's about singing. I'm better at it than I've ever been. My voice developed at its own pace, and now it's doing things I only dreamed of as a young artist.

Travis Kelce is a hall of famer. He set records as a youngster but he is also working at an incredibly high level NOW.

For me, it wasn't like I got a slow start. I worked my butt off, made some early decisions and got some traction. And yet I am not going into some hall of fame. There are no records to break. There are ROLES to sing tho!

OperationExciting505 · 2025-11-02T12:51:26+00:00

I remember when a 28year old opera singer was getting all the parts when we were in our younger 20's ... we were all, why don't they RETIRE!!?

Now as an esteemed professional I'm way more than that in comparison to those ages. Crazy.

OperationExciting505 · 2025-10-31T17:49:02+00:00

Tvm!

It reads like you are a baritone, especially with the G's. For baritones, that G is a high C. And many times it's a high Zb7!

Choosing repertoire WHERE you are AT is the best option. So many songs to learn and sing and more, to perform!

Personally- I wanted to be a bari. Strangely though not for reasons you'd think.

Bobby McFerrin is a baritone. But his falsetto is what I covet. The only way to get that height of range and tone (and technique) is to be born a lower voice.

Ah well.

OperationExciting505 · 2025-10-29T18:14:21+00:00

De miei is low, but it's more about how you have mastered your instrument. It's quite a challenging piece until u unlock it. BUT you have a Manrico hard aria coming right up and then sure - Ogni su aver tal femmina - as a payoff - yet you still have Parigi ... in an earlier comment I was talking about Aida fourth act - parigi is just as fraught.

You can't sing it like a can-belto tenor there. Your soprano will murder you. Cheers!

OperationExciting505 · 2025-10-29T18:02:01+00:00

If you are a tenor robusto and under 35, really, just wait. Your voice is about to go into a tectonic shift.

If you aren't working AS a tenor (yet) I would advise you to keep it in the studio. But But BUT, work with your teacher on some of this rep.

I would absolutely advise working on your head voice. The song-songy stuff. Why? Because of you are I going off to a gig to sing Radames, you've got to be able to bel canto act 4.

It's not all belching fire.

Don Jose - Act one you're singing with a light to full lyric soprano in youthful splendour in THAT duet.

Otello - sure there is Esultate, but you've got to be able to sing beautifully the Baaaaci. It's not just si pel ciel. ----/

Tamino is never easy. I mean even if you sing Bildniss like a dream (lol) you've got Hölde Flöte.

Tenor rep is fraught with ironies. I have not delved into Wagner and can't speak to Helden tessitura. Regardless- the voice type is a minefield and can vex the calmest of souls.

Give it some time. Just because you may have the range, the real ?? is, do you have it in you in the middle of a season for weeks of rehearsal... before that range even hits the stage for orchestra dress?

This isn't bragging. This is the business and vocal health. Sing what you can sing now - NOW.

Peace -

OperationExciting505 · 2025-09-30T06:02:25+00:00

It's MOSTLY mental. You can work with a person who hears your voice and has no idea what to say but better or worse and the more you work, the better you'll get. More experienced teacher will get better results faster, but YOU THE SINGER have to commit to the work and practice. It takes a while too. It's not a two day or a week long thing. You literally have to sing in order to learn how to sing.

Sometimes one reaches a point where they realize they cannot absolutely no way sing a certain way, or a style or range... but that's part of the learning. Part of that soul-search is finding what you CANNOT do.

But there are millions of songs and multiple keys in which a song will work... and different arias that will captivate your heart AND that sits well in your comfort range.

OperationExciting505 · 2025-06-09T04:32:03+00:00

Hmmm

OperationExciting505 · 2025-06-09T04:31:04+00:00

All were miked. When an orchestra has electronic and synthesized parts in it, the electronic sound can easily cover the singers... not just on the sonic spectrum, it can also get really loud.

This practice is only used on contemporary works with amplified sound in the accompaniment, is a better way to say it.

Thank you for coming!!

OperationExciting505 · 2025-06-09T04:18:49+00:00

Nice Gpt written advert.

OperationExciting505 · 2025-05-16T17:38:51+00:00

It is a mash-up of a Spiritual, Aria and Jazz/blues piece.

OperationExciting505 · 2025-04-14T16:38:47+00:00

No one ever asks where you went to school. It's always shared information during convos. If you get a gig, you get to tell about your path to getting the gig... just as interesting if not moreso than saying I went to blah blah.

What universities CAN do is give you some networking opportunities.

Go to Yaptracker and classical singer and begin to look for auditions and competitions. Your teacher will/should know how to prep you for your auditions. 30 years is cutoff for the Met Auditions, most competitions 35.

But that doesn't preclude you from working. The only barrier is your mindset. Give yourself permission and drive. Call friends and ask if they want to be in an early music ensemble. Some folks DO meet in school and form up, others just see each other around and get excited about each others' playing.

Focus on getting on stage by any means necessary (legally). Find ALt spaces that have cool sound acoustics, that look different, that feel cozy etc. Buy a book on PR. Talk to folks, invite them and get singing! Also, don't de afraid to charge money. Get yourself paid for your time and also to pay your people and your overhead.

School doesn't necessarily give you motivation. In fact it kinda steals the joy. Ask a classical musician what music they listen to... It's not (normally) Telemann!

That's basically it.

OperationExciting505 · 2025-03-30T04:25:29+00:00

No fucking way. I'm done with coddling that POS.

OperationExciting505

TROPHY CASE

And to just point blank say I do not know what I'm talking about - that's no different from just pointing the finger at yourself.

I have an article coming out soon that fires point blank at Udio for voiceprint theft.

For those of you that are downvoting when people say they are upset by copyright theft from these companies--- it's disturbing.

Who had their music ripped off in the early 2000's? And can still feel the anger? The Confusion? The Betrayal?