Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing

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As the voice ascends in the scale each note is different, and as one goes on up the positions of the organ of the throat cannot remain the same for several different tones. But...

Recently a young woman who started her vocal career as a contralto has sung the most difficult of Wagnerian soprano parts. Her high notes, it is true, were not the high notes of...

It may be well to speak now of a very important point in singing--what is called the "attack" of the tone. In general this may be described as the relative position of the throa...

The most visible phase of the opera singer's life when he or she is in view of the public on the stage is naturally the one most intimately connected in the minds of the majorit...