COPERTURA/ COVERING It is s fundamental action and concept, especially for male voices and tenors. It has become in one way of it – in the last decades- a sort of one size fit all with very little nuancing so to show its limits. It is the version of the hyperhyped tenor and vocal coach Luciano Pavarotti and Seth Riggs. They are well deserved hyperhiped, but it had taken away perspective and freshness in separating the stylistic or convenience of the choice from the necessary physiology for it. Stylistic does not contain all the individual possibilities. Convenient does not contain optimal. If you want your style or you go for your optimal then copertura can be acquired and obtained by many more actions – just some in common with Pavarotti/Riggs way.
Three aspects of it to start nuancing the question
The last has been the emergency sessions with a professional singer that I did not know previously – we made some of my special exercises after that she impaired her voice. Hearing her doing all the performances she had booked in Edinburgh and in Ireland moved tears in me. As it does seeing how longer students blossom, it still does – even after nearly 20 years of those constant results.
My craft and innovation in vocal technique are yes a contribution both theoretical and scientific but they start and have the deeper sense in the every day work with the singers. Singers are the centre of my craft and knowledge development. Seeing them perform and turn around problems or careers is the thing.
Enjoy her, me still with some happy tears today ☀️☀️
00:00 My considerations on voice and development. Our path in those 10 months of lessons; listen her singing: 13:57 six months lessons and working on her first Wagner 14:58 eight months lessons Villanelle Berlioz, 16:19 ten months lessons third lecture of Tu che di gel sei cinta Puccini Turandot; pieces of lessons: 39:22 17 February 2024 working on Villanelle Les nuitts d’été Berlioz, 50:15 Oh quanta volte Giulietta Capuleti e Montecchi Bellini, 51:01 02 March 2024 tongue work 54:50 vocalisation 01:03:06 28 April 2024 Vocalisation, 01:13:40 Wishing you were somehow here again Phantom of the Opera, 01:19:27 So in love Kiss me Kate, 01:22:07 10 May 2024 second lecture of Tu she di gel sei cinta Turandot, 01:24:11 Briefing anatomical 01:30:00 vocalisation 01:51:52 Panofka Op. 85, 02:09:04 working on Tu she di gel sei cinta Turandot, Working on Summertime Porgy & Bess 02:19:50
Well, she was a pretty different voice: it has taken the usual nine months to really start hearing what it looks like her voice is. It is the timing of the first smooth tissues adaptations, now without rushing have to maintain the excellent practice to maintain the complete development that in literature is commonly said in the 2-3 years and in my practice I find the same.
Now while she is in more satisfying repertoire we are working on all the management on all the tessitura, the higher notes will just grow physiological, have now to control not to push them even if for a competition… longer horizons are more important. . cossumethod is the cross bridging of advanced functional biomechanics finding into the context of voice and their specific relevance to serve voice production and artistic voice, both spontaneous and technical.
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Lucia Cossu voiceteacher Italian/French voice teacher for professionals and future pro singers, innovator in vocal technique specialised in training and personalised solutions, voice development and voice preparation for touring/recording, young voices development without forcing the delicate and respectful balance of young talents. She has solved strain/issues and limitations of singers unsolvable by training or medical therapies. Those skills have 15 years of successful career and voice transformations in all styles; hospitals have sent her some desperate cases, all successfully.
Her innovative perspective has been recently presented at the prestigious Pan-European Voice Conference PEVoC14 2022 in one paper and two workshops and three Posters at The Voice Foundation 52nd Annual Symposium May 31- June 4 2023 in Philadelphia, she will be again at both in 2024 with two oral presentations, two workshops and two more Posters. She calls this perspective the (R)Evolution of voice model, or if you prefer cossumethod in the actual practice.
She comes from an international soloist career in classical music that a malpractice during an abdominal surgery has interrupted (the surgeon has been convicted).
Courses and workshops are available online from everywhere and in person can be arranged. .
You find me as a presenter at both TVF Symposium in Philadelphia next June and in EU at next @pevoc15 .
Delighted to see accepted all the three abstracts at the next PEVoC 15th 2024. One oral presentation and two workshops on bridging biomechanics of general musculoskeletal system with voice production and vocal practices. 12 times international presenter at the top Voice Conferences in 24 months as original practice and the general rationale related, the results I have since 15 years start being a less just me and my students thing; profoundly grateful and satisfied.
Let’s see the development, how different muscles act and behave, how they give informations, how we detect their infos, what singers do and the tricky biomechanical reasons you cannot at now do as them. At now is the point. Season two is all on development and practicalities.
23, 24 & 27: my three Posters for Voice Foundation Symposium, program is out. https://voicefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-SYMP-Program.pdf And here the specifics of my view in integrating directly biomechanics into voice production/training for this Symposium. Come say hello or come to the presentation Thursday 1st of June 2023. .
Lucia Cossu vocal technique and breath expert 