Opera and the voice: once more with meaning

The opera voice needs an overhaul, argues Dominic Muldowney. Can we find a better way for actors to sing and singers to act?I often find myself telling the story of my father, who spent his days driving buses but his evenings listening to opera on 78 records. He and my mother would sit in a rapture listening mainly to arias, mainly those sung by tenors, and mainly by the great early 20th-century Italian singer Benia…

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