Very exciting, but...isn't she a little young for Marschallin?
The Marschallin is 35.
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Another promising Soprano who has been convinced by her over-the-hill teachers to not exercise and get fat. When will opera learn that having a singer wear a 60 pound weight vest while singing is NOT good for the voice and NOT healthy. By 40 her voice will wobble and everyone will wonder what happened. Singing is a physical act and to support your gift you also need nutrition, a strong core and age-appropriate weight, not crash diet skinny and certainly not huge and fat.
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@Hans Dieter Ulrich: Well, I am glad that the very first comment pounces on what really matters. Not the singing, not the acting, not the performance, but the body of the singer. Great priorities! And I am not even whispering names like Pavarotti, Caballé, Sutherland and other minor singers whose voice wobbled at 40 and whose career was over at that point.
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@Hans Dieter Ulrich Unless you're Tom Brady, pretty much everything about you starts to "wobble" once you hit 40, compared to your 20 year-old self.
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Your pounding away at this singer’s perceived (by you) surplus of weight not only speaks volumes about you rather than her, but also is incomprehensible to these clear eyes, which only see a fine, healthy physicality. Whatever your personal ideal may be for a woman’s weight is immaterial to what befits an opera singer, or anyone else for that matter.
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