Gary Catona, Voice Builder To The World, Home Page

BLOG.

ENRICO CARUSO'S VOCAL TRANSFORMATION PT. 2

Read Pt. 1 here Caruso’s vocal transformation started in the 1907 when he first began to sing Verdi's opera, Aida. This opera is...

Gary Catona and Robin Thicke

Gary and his student, Robin Thicke.

HANGING OUT WITH BERRY GORDY

Here I am spending precious time with legendary music/entertainment mogul Berry Gordy - founder of Motown Records and one of the great...

ENRICO CARUSO'S VOCAL TRANSFORMATION PT. 1

Enrico Caruso began as a lyrical tenor in the late 19th and the first several years of the 20th century (the lyrical tenor voice is...

Verdi, Wagner, And The Verismo School Part 1

If Rossini, with his innovations, caused the door of operatic change to fly open, it was with Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) in Italian opera...

A Full-Voiced High-C Makes Its Enterance

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?As far as the evolution of the tenor voice is concerned, Gilbert-Louis Duprez’s...

Sinatra: Master Of The Divine Couplet Of Singing Part 2

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?Very early in his career, Sinatra rarely sang in the down, back, and open oo and...

The Origins of the Superstar Tenor

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?Tenors have always been a part of opera even during the rule of the greatest...

Good Results, Questionable Causes

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"? Mustn’t there be good teachers who have played a vital role in the development of...

Your Voice Muscles Are Endurance Muscles

It is common for voice instructors to describe the source of vocal sound—the larynx—as a delicate organ, and easily injured by misuse or...