Mezza voce: Giangiacomo Guelfi - Andrem raminghi e poveri [Luisa Miller] - 1965

Soft singing is one of the most difficult skills a singer has to use, and it *should* be one of the last things s/he learns. Why? Because it is impossible to do well if 1) the voice isn’t properly registered and 2) if the two registers are not coordinated. And there are so many ways to “sing softly“ that effectively harm the voice. You hear them all today—deliberately constricting the sound or engaging interfering tensions (making the sound “thick“ and/or “throaty“), collapsing the voice and artificially li