Operatic Voices
These are the two lowest male voices in an opera.
What are bass and baritone?
A person who sings
What is a singer?
This is art on stage that shows the location of the story
What is the setting or set?
Fact or Myth:
It takes more education to become a professional opera singer than it does a professional athlete.
Fact:
Most professional opera singers have several college degrees that focus on vocal performance, mastering two or more foreign languages, and developing financial expertise in money management.
This is Baby Bear's actual name in Goldie B. Locks and the Three Singing Bears.
A person with the highest singing voice in the opera and is a female is referred to as this.
What is a soprano.
A person who writes the music of an opera.
What is a composer?
These are objects performers use on stage to help tell the story.
What are props?
Fact or Myth:
The best professional opera singers perform mainly in New York and California.
Myth.
The most talented professional opera singers travel all over the world, performing in places such as Rome, Berlin, and Paris.
Danielle Webster is actually made from these.
What is Goldie B Locks' dad's pajamas?
This is the highest male singing voice in the opera.
What is a tenor?
What is an orchestra?
Performers wear this in an opera to help describe the character like whether or not they're shy, funny, serious, old, or young. Sometimes they might include wigs.
What is a costume?
Fact or Myth:
The highest soprano voices are the only ones that can break wine glasses.
Scientists have discovered that matching pitch with a glass' exact resonant frequency can enable even the untrained voice to break the wine glass.
This is the name of the city where the performers for Goldie B. Locks and the Three Singing Bears are coming from.
What is Nashville?
A woman with a middle range singing voice might be called an alto or one of these:
What is a mezzo-soprano?
A person who makes sure the singers and orchestra perform at the same time
What is a conductor?
People who create ideas for how opera should look are called this.
What are designers?
Fact or Myth:
Most Operas are performed in Italian, German, French, or Russian.
Fact.
While this is true, Opera is also written in other languages such as English, Chinese, Japanese, and more!
This is the melody for the song Goldie B. Locks sings called "I'm Lost".
What is Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star?
A male who sings very high and might sound like a woman is called this.
What is a contralto?
A person who writes the words or script of an opera
What is a librettist?
This can make a person's face look old or young, like a princess or a witch, or even a magical creature.
What is makeup?
Fact or Myth:
In order to become a professional opera singer, you must attend school in New York, California, or Europe.
Myth.
While you will definitely have more opportunities to perform in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, you can also study Opera at Vanderbilt, the University of Tennessee, and Middle Tennessee State University, just to name a few. Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, and Murfreesboro have Opera productions regularly.
This composer wrote the melody for Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?