Training the tenor voice as an Opera Singer & Voice Teacher. When we have music that lives in the passaggio with a lot of text and unvoiced consonants, we need to find balance in the breath and adduction. The 3 step system I follow: 1) Sing the phrase on my best mixed vowel to encourage laryngeal tilt. I want that to be the foundational feeling in the pharynx. 2) Sing the vowels of the words with no consonants working to maintain the feeling of the mixed vowel as the auxiliary vowel in the phary

Training the Tenor Voice as an Opera Singer & Voice Teacher Teaching Opera Singers is interesting because we all experience singing and concepts slightly different. One of the concepts that takes some exploration is finding how an individual feels “lift” “release” “stretch” etc of the soft palate. Some singers have a soft palate that sits naturally high, which means we don’t need to get them to lift much. Sometimes a singer has a naturally low positioned soft palate and that is one of the main i