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Jeannette LoVetri
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“Don’t Act On The High Notes”
I recently attended yet another “operatic” master class lead by a noted Metropolitan opera mezzo. At one point she told a young soprano “Don’t act...

Shrieking Versus Singing
It used to be that singing was easy to recognize. Not so much anymore. It used to be that we knew when someone was singing...

Open Mindedness
Some people think they know everything and refuse to learn new information because they strongly believe they already know what they need to know. This...

Multi-disciplinary Interchange
The only way our profession, the one called “singing teaching”, is going to go forward is by paying attention to voice science. We can’t live...

You Will Never Sing Again
What happens when you hear these words from a medical doctor or a speech language pathologist? What then? Do you just accept them and go...

Difficult Music Theater Songs
All repertoire is not created equal, and that includes music theater songs. I have implied here before that this is the case, but I well...

A Little Information Is A Dangerous Thing
Eleven years ago I did my first Somatic Voicework™ training. At that time I was teaching alone and did not know how my work would...

How Far Is Too Far?
There really isn’t anything that’s as beautiful as a human voice singing sincerely with no outside help. It is stunning to hear such singing and these...

The Throat/Body/Mind Connection
We talk about the singing voice and the speaking voice as if they are separate when we realize that we only have one larynx, one...

Connecting The Dots
In order to learn to sing the person studying needs to grapple with the process in a large way. Some people have trouble doing that....