Classically Abby - March 18, 2020


OPERA SINGER REACTS TO REALITY TV ＂OPERA SINGER＂ ｜｜ What I REALLY think!!

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Nervous Welsh Opera Singer Gets Golden Buzzer
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Abby Shapiro
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Nessun Dorma Griff Nervous Welsh Alwenna Gruffydd Wynne Roberts Gets Golden Buzzer Manan Simon
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12 minutes

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1,691

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125

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Misogyny

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In this episode, I'm reacting to some of my favourite British and American opera singers and pop singers. I'll be taking a look at what they're singing and why they sound the way they do. I hope you enjoy this episode and leave your thoughts in the comments below!

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00:00:00.040 Hello beautiful ladies, and welcome to today's video where I'm going to be 0.99
00:00:03.960 reacting to Britain's Got Talent opera singers.
00:00:09.840 I wanted to start a series of reacting to opera singers, pop singers. Leave me
00:00:14.880 suggestions in the comments below about who you'd like me to react to and what
00:00:19.280 my thoughts are as a trained opera singer of all of these different people.
00:00:23.120 And I figured I would start off with some singers who call themselves opera
00:00:27.000 singers that go on Britain's Got Talent or America's Got Talent and just kind of
00:00:31.320 take a look and see what they're doing and if I think that they're actually
00:00:35.400 representative of opera singers. Now I want to be clear from the beginning, I
00:00:39.360 don't want to be mean here. None of this is going to be, oh my gosh that's horrible
00:00:43.680 kind of a reaction. What kind of things are they doing that don't look really
00:00:47.520 technically correct as an opera singer or why do they sound the way that they do?
00:00:51.720 Whatever it may be. So we're going to start off with this video on YouTube and
00:00:56.640 it's titled, Nervous Welsh Opera Singer Gets Golden Buzzer. So let's see what this is.
00:01:14.160 They're very excited clearly and it seems that they've miked the friends in the
00:01:18.480 audience so that we can hear them so.
00:01:20.480 Hello. Who are you my love? I'm Gruffydd Wynne Roberts. I'm Welsh. I'm 22 and I live in a small island
00:01:38.400 called Anglesea in North Wales with, with, with, with Manan. Oh fantastic. What's your
00:01:43.040 grandma's name? Manan's called Alwenna. That's a great name. Alwenna. And why don't you live with your mum and dad?
00:01:50.240 Um, well I don't, uh, I, I, um, sorry, um, I live with Manan because, um, uh, I haven't known my father till I was 16.
00:02:02.400 Um, and, uh, yeah, this is quite hard. Sorry. Um, yeah.
00:02:10.400 Go on, Griff. Go on, Griff!
00:02:12.400 Go on, Griff!
00:02:14.400 Are you going to sing? Yeah, I'm going to sing for you today yet.
00:02:20.400 I just love this guy. He's so sweet. Oh, and I feel so sad for him, but it's so nice that he lives with his grandmother.
00:02:28.400 Oh, well, I'm excited to hear him sing.
00:02:30.400 I'm excited to hear him sing.
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00:03:04.400 So the first thing I want to say is that he has such a beautiful tone. I love the
00:03:10.760 color of his voice, the timbre, but clearly a he's very very nervous and b
00:03:16.640 what you'll see is that he's very close to the microphone and he's comfortable
00:03:21.200 being that close to the microphone and he's not supporting with his body in a
00:03:26.580 way that an opera singer would. Most opera singers actually need to take a 0.93
00:03:30.380 step back from a microphone because they already resonate so much that it can
00:03:34.020 kind of blow out your speakers. So he's singing very much from kind of here up
00:03:40.500 and he's not singing with his body. Now don't get me wrong, that would be perfect
00:03:45.660 for performances where you are singing with the microphone and he's not really
00:03:49.980 trying to sing opera, but I also love this choice of song so let's keep going.
00:04:04.020 Okay, Simon stopped it. This is dramatic. Let's see what happens.
00:04:14.500 Okay, Griffin, I want to say something to you. Okay. Because you're very nervous. Yeah. This
00:04:25.980 was very cold and mechanical for me. I sense there's more in there. I want to hear that warmth,
00:04:34.980 that richness. I want you to just let go for a second. Okay. What else you got?
00:04:41.460 I've got Ness and Dorma. So of course he's gonna sing Ness and Dorma because
00:04:47.940 that's what they always do on these shows. I've seen women come out and sing Ness and 1.00
00:04:53.220 Dorma. This is, Ness and Dorma is for a man. It's not written for a woman. So they want the 1.00
00:04:57.540 crowd pleaser. They want if they're gonna choose him that the audience goes crazy. So yeah, they're
00:05:04.580 pushing for the standards for Ness and Dorma, for the one that gets people on their feet. I might skip
00:05:11.540 a little bit forward.
00:05:34.580 So you can definitely hear how nervous he is. You can hear there's a little bit of a,
00:05:51.220 more of a shake in his vibrato than that's there naturally. And I think that's probably just nerves.
00:05:57.620 What's also interesting to note is that he really has a very natural way of singing where he's very
00:06:03.700 comfortable in the higher parts of his voice and the lower parts of his voice. But again,
00:06:07.700 he's just not supporting in the way that an opera singer would support. He's kind of singing a little
00:06:13.300 bit more from just this part of his body. He's not using his ribs and his muscles in the lower part of
00:06:20.500 his frame to give him the strength and body to support, which he's going to need as he goes higher.
00:06:26.500 So we'll see if he can kind of make that work. But as you go higher in the voice, you actually need
00:06:32.820 more support from your body because it's these two tiny little muscles in your larynx that have
00:06:38.820 to vibrate very quickly and be able to phonate as you get higher. And if your body's not supporting
00:06:44.420 you, then you'll just fall apart. So he may not fall apart, but it might just not sound as great.
00:06:48.900 So let's see what he does.
00:07:01.140 So there you might notice he's just a tiny bit sharp. That can happen when you're nervous. You will push
00:07:06.020 the air instead of just letting the air flow, and that will push your actual note a little bit too
00:07:12.420 high. So that seems to be what happened there.
00:07:22.260 I just want to point out there that at that point he does something that opera singers do not do,
00:07:27.700 which is a pop thing, which is he goes,
00:07:30.820 that kind of like, uh, we don't do that. We like to have clean lines all the way through,
00:07:41.060 especially with an aria like this. So you can see he's got a little bit more pop training maybe
00:07:46.500 than classical training, or he's just been listening to pop more than he's been listening to opera.
00:07:57.380 So I'm just gonna stop right there on the high note.
00:08:08.600 You can definitely see he's got the pitches, he's got the voice, and with some training
00:08:13.020 he would be so fantastic.
00:08:15.880 But it's just clear that he doesn't have the body to support him up there, so it's just
00:08:20.420 a little bit strained, a little bit pushed, a little bit forced, whereas if he was using
00:08:25.720 his air properly and he was using his body to support him, it would be so easy for him.
00:08:31.120 He clearly has the notes, so it's just kind of interesting to see that.
00:08:48.220 He does that pop thing again there, just pointing it out.
00:08:53.620 Come on, girl! 1.00
00:08:56.020 Come on! 0.61
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00:08:59.020 Oh my God!
00:09:00.220 Come on! 0.61
00:09:05.120 At this time, diets rise,
00:09:12.660 so you've got to do this everywhere!
00:09:20.120 So he did it.
00:09:48.560 He got the note out.
00:09:50.120 And he definitely has it.
00:09:53.700 But it's stressful for me as an opera singer because if I was in that position where it
00:09:57.440 was like squeaking it out, I would be very on edge.
00:10:01.700 He clearly has the voice.
00:10:03.260 He has the notes.
00:10:04.340 It's really a cool thing that he is able to sing and do what he does with what it seems
00:10:10.020 like maybe he doesn't have very much or any formal training and that's really cool.
00:10:14.440 But if he just had his body support him, if he had the right teacher, oh my gosh, this
00:10:18.560 would sound absolutely glorious.
00:10:21.560 And I hope that he does find a teacher or have a teacher who can help him learn how to actually
00:10:27.580 sing opera because he clearly has the voice.
00:10:30.560 He has the talent.
00:10:31.560 He has the passion.
00:10:32.560 He just needs to support his voice.
00:10:36.560 And he could do it.
00:10:37.560 It's just right now it's a lot of natural talent with not a lot of training.
00:10:42.560 So I think that it's a pretty cool thing that this guy was able to go up on Britain's Got
00:10:48.100 Talent and sing opera.
00:10:49.360 And I love that these kinds of things inspire people to listen to more opera because I mean
00:10:54.660 Nessun Dorma is beautiful and Pavarotti singing it is amazing.
00:10:59.880 And if it gets more people interested in opera, I'm all for it.
00:11:03.020 It just seems to me that he needs a little bit more training and then he would be perfect.
00:11:08.980 It's always fascinating to me to see what people think opera singers are and I like to kind
00:11:13.180 of keep the record straight just because he is singing opera and he's singing beautifully,
00:11:19.300 but he is not an opera singer, clearly.
00:11:21.480 He doesn't have the training yet.
00:11:23.780 He doesn't know how to support his body because if he were to sing an entire opera, he would
00:11:27.980 probably get very tired very quickly and you need to be able to sustain this level of singing
00:11:32.760 for hours.
00:11:34.260 The reason I want to do this is to teach you guys more about how opera works, why opera singers
00:11:38.400 need to be trained the way that they do, and what the difference is for you.
00:11:42.280 So let me know in the comments down below who else you'd like me to take a look at, whether
00:11:45.820 it be pop singers or America's Got Talent or The Voice or whoever it is, I'd love to
00:11:50.420 do more of these.
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