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Updated: July 23, 2025
Watch Melba singing the Mad Scene from Lucia, Tetrazzini, the Shadow Song from Dinorah, or Sembrich, the music of the Queen of the Night in the Magic Flute, and you will observe that they replenish the original intake of breath with half-breaths, a practice which enables them at every opportunity to make the required pause before breath-emission.
His diet, his hours, are carefully regulated. He is always in training. The German is apt to neglect such matters. The inevitable result is shortness of breath and lack of control of breath-emission. Voice is breath; lack of breath is lack of voice. I once attended a German performance of Die Walküre with an Italian master of bel canto.
The same is true of "head register," in which vibration is felt in the head where, however, it is needless to say, the "head tones" do not originate. Expiration breath-emission is the motor function of the vocal organs; and there are two other physical functions of the organs vibratory and resonant.
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