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Opera Online! Summer 7

You know we can't send out anything this week without mentioning the newest internet sensation, Jackie Evancho. In case you don't know who she is, she sang O mio babbino caro from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi on the TV show America's Got Talent.

There are voice teachers who may be concerned that she's singing in such a mature manner for one so young, but the effect is undeniably thrilling! Check out the clip of her singing further down in this eblast.

We'll also have the last installment of the BBC What Makes a Tenor? documentary, and we'll look at the bass voice, that deepest of voices, in this segment.

The Documentary

This is the last in our Documentary series - What Makes a Great Tenor? - Part 7
I hope you have enjoyed!






Website of the week

There are many different types of Basses from Basso cantante/lyric high bass/lyric bass-baritone to the Dramatic basso profondo. To find out more about the Bass Voice type, click here.


You Tube Clip of the Week

Basso profundo, Kurt Moll sings an aria of Osmin, from Die Entführung aus dem Serail, a Mozartian Singspiel. The aria includes a low D, one of the lowest notes written for the human voice in all of opera!






10 Year Old Soprano Jackie Evancho on America's Got Talent






Opera on Air

On Saturday, August 7th at 12pm WRTI Radio will broadcast part three of Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung series, Siegfried from the Los Angeles Opera.

The cast includes:
Also this weekend, WHYY- TV 12 will broadcast the Metropolitan Opera's production of Ambroise Thomas' setting of Shakespeare's Hamlet with Simon Keenlyside and Marlis Petersen as Hamlet and Ophelia. Tune in at 3 PM on Sunday!


Don't forget to invite your friends to sign up to receive these alerts by emailing their name, school, and age to us at outreach@operaphila.org.

Until next week…
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