Jaakko Ryhänen, like other opera singers, has had to sing numerous times in a language he does not understand.
According to Jaakko Ryhänen, the whisperer is of paramount importance in opera. Juha Veli Jokinen
Jaakko Ryhänen a recent biography sheds light on the opera world even for those unfamiliar with the art form.
For example, an opera singer is much more attached to his work than an actor. The tempo is determined by the conductor. If any point remains to be interpreted, notice that it already went.
If the actor’s voice is hoarse, he can speak a little lower, but in opera it doesn’t.
Moreover, the scores of an opera are usually in a language that the singer does not inherently know.
– I have noticed that in those situations the melody and rhythm help to memorize the text, it comes with the music. It also involves movements and positions on stage, they bring text, although of course the singer needs to understand what he is singing.
– In beating the text on the head, I have only one trick: repeat, repeat and repeat. The athlete repeats the same movement 10,000 times to get it into muscle memory. It is the same with the text. The roles I’ve done a lot come from even more subconscious than elementary school songs. Those who haven’t done so much have completely disappeared, Ryhänen says in his biography.
He thinks he has sung so many wrong words and melodies during his career that one could put them together Parsifalin long work.
However, Ryhänen says that there are good whisperers in the big opera houses.
– At the Vienna State Opera, many whisperers had conductor training, and they basically led the singers. They noticed that the guy was falling and knew how to help, it looks like he’s coming in again. It is an incomparable security, Ryhänen says.
For him, the whisperer is paramount in the opera, the conductor when he focuses on the orchestra.
– A whisperer helps and often leads singers. And with experience, the singer learns to make the falls so the audience doesn’t notice. I heard you say that In Rigoleto The tenor, who sings the Duke in Finnish, was mixed up in his words and sang ‘goodbye not goodbye’, says the opera legend.
Raiko Häyrinen: Jaakko Ryhänen – My Journey (Docendo) was published on March 3.