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Living a Dream - Special Edition

Katherine Jenkins

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Another Gem from Katherine

Katherine gives another star performance with this latest release. Quite a colourful mix again of classical standards, traditional and more well chosen more recent pieces. As always, each song is performed to it's fullness enhanced by Katherine's magnificent vocal range and style. Highlights in my opinion are Over the Rainbow and We'll Meet Again. I am sure Judy Garland and Vera Lynn respectively would approve.

Soprano? Certainly not, bad falsetto if anything...

Now, I do not usually state this when writing reviews, however I am so tired of the popular music marketing machinery flaunting young singers with no technical foundation that I am compelled to start by saying that I am a Doctor of Music, an opera singer and a vocal coach. I know, listeners whose ears have been painted over by the many so-called Divos, Divas, Tenors, etc. throwing together "classical" albums left, right, centre will not like reading this, but truth be told: Katherine Jenkins is not a proper soprano with a quality operatic voice, a proper vocal technique and an accomplished repertoire. A mezzo? Certainly not. Ms Jenkins simply imitates operatic singing technique and she unconsciously substitutes falsetto for the upper portion of her modal voice. That is, she does not use her voice as required by professional opera/choral singing. Her singing is so wrong at so many levels that arias written for accomplished opera singers sound like badly synthesized New-Age tunes of 80's. New listeners of operatic singing might find her 'heavenly', 'wonderful', etc. but for trained ears of accomplished classical music listeners and professional singers, she is unfortunately a very poor listening: Wrong breathing, extremely poor intonation, improper vocal resonation, completely mislaid tessitura (where the voice has the best timbre, easy volume, and most comfort), very poor articulation and interpretation. I was reduced to tears for all the wrong reasons, I am afraid. I have to say that her repertoire is hugely misguided and not suitable for her vocal range: She attempts at singing arias written for the male voice which has a completely different range and tessitura (e.g. Nessun Dorma), as well as arias written for technically accomplished female voice (e.g. Samson et Dalila), therefore making her sound all the more amateurish.

Fantastic

What a superb album - I would recommend anyone to listen to it - love the version of Don't cry for me Argentina....

Biography

Born: 29 June 1980 in Neath, Wales

Genre: Classical

Years Active: '00s

While still in her mid-twenties, Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins emerged as Britain's all-time best-selling classical artist, although critics charged her success was more a result of physical beauty than musical talent. Born June 29, 1980, in Neath, West Glamorgan, Wales, Jenkins fell under the sway of classical music at age seven, studying piano and singing in her local choir throughout childhood. In 1990, she joined the Royal School of Church Music Cathedral Singers and also served with...
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