“Taming Opera Singing: 10 Questions Answered on the Queen Elisabeth Competition Sidelines” (subscriber-only content)

Journalist at the Culture Department

Published on 1/06/2023 at 18:29
Reading time: 2 mins

When we think of lyrical singing, we often think of divas, their fur scarf around their necks, their panic fear of drafts… A cliché? Or the sign of a particular way of life?

“Lyrical singing is all the same a certain hygiene of life”, admits Thibaut Lenaerts, tenor and professor at the Conservatories of Liège and Brussels. “You cannot arrive at a premiere having celebrated the day before. Although there are of course always counter-examples with singers who have made a great career by smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. »

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