Louise Kirkby Lunn (1,037 views)

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Louise Kirkby Lunn (8 November 1873 - 17 February 1930)
Voice Type: Dramatic Mezzo-soprano
Vocal Range: F3-A5

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{Repertoire}
Schumann: Genoveva (1893) - Margaretha (dramatischer sopran)
Delibes: Le roi l'a dit (1894) - Marquise de Moncontour (mezzo-soprano)
Stanford: Shamus O'Brien (1896) - Nora O'Brien (mezzo-soprano) (world premiere)
Bizet: Carmen (1886, 1899, 1911) - Carmen (mezzo-soprano lyrique)
Wagner: Die Walküre (1897, 1907-1908) - Fricka (dramatischer mezzosopran)
Gounod: Faust (1897, 1899) - Siébel (mezzo-soprano lyrique)
Wagner: Das Rheingold (1898) - Wellgunde (jugendlich-dramatischer sopran)
Wagner: Lohengrin (1899, 1902, 1906-1908) - Ortrud (dramatischer mezzosopran)
Wallace: Maritana (1899) - Lazarillo (mezzo-soprano)
Balfe: The Bohemian Girl (1899) - Queen of the Gypsies (contralto)
Verdi: Il trovatore (1899) - Azucena (mezzosoprano drammatico)
Sullivan: The Golden Legend (1901) - Ursula (contralto)
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1901-1902) - Magdalena (sopran)
Verdi: Rigoletto (1902) - Maddalena (contralto)
Verdi: Aida (1902-1903, 1906-1914, 1919-1922) - Amneris (mezzosoprano drammatico)
Wagner: Das Rheingold (1903) - Erda (dramatischer alt)
Wagner: Die Walküre (1903, 1908) - Waltraute (dramatischer mezzosopran)
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (1903, 1907) - Brangäne (dramatischer mezzosopran or dramatischer sopran)
Wagner: Siegfried (1903, 1905-1908) - Erda (dramatischer alt)
Massenet: Hérodiade (1904) - Hérodiade (mezzo-soprano dramatique)
Saint-Saëns: Hélène (1904) - Pallas (contralto)
Wagner: Parsifal (1904, 1919-1922) - Kundry (hochdramatischer sopran)
Wagner: Götterdämmerung (1905) - Waltraute (dramatischer mezzosopran)
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (1905) - Orfeo (mezzosoprano lirico)
Tchaikowsky: Eugene Onegin (1906) - Olga (contralto)
Gluck: Armide (1906) - La Haine (contralto)
Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila (1906, 1911) - Dalila (mezzo-soprano dramatique)

Significant High Notes:

A5 ("Non piu di fiori")
G♯5 ("Agnus Dei", "O don fatale", "Oh! That we two were maying", "T'eri un giorno ammalato")
G5 ("Agnus Dei", "Amours, viens aider ma faiblesse", "Non piu di fiori", "One Spring Morning", "O righteous God", "T'eri un giorno ammalato", "Voce di donna")
F♯5 ("A Summer Night", "Ebben qual nuovo fremito", "L'amo come il fulgor", "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix", "One Spring Morning", "O righteous God", "The pretty creature")
F5 ("Agnus Dei", "Che farò senza Euridice", "Have You News of My Boy, Jack?", "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix", "Non piu di fiori", "O don fatale", "Oh! That we two were maying", "O righteous God", "Pres des remparts de Seville", "Soul of Mine", "Stride la vampa", "Vanika's Song", "Voce di donna")
E5 ("A Summer Night", "Che farò senza Euridice", "Deep in the Heart of a Rose", "Ebben qual nuovo fremito", "L'amo come il fulgor", "Like to the Damask Rose", "My Ships", "Ombra mai fu", "One Spring Morning", "Printemps qui commence", "Stride la vampa", "T'eri un giorno ammalato")
E♭5 ("Agnus Dei", "Amours, viens aider ma faiblesse", "Auld Robin Gray", "Che farò senza Euridice", "Deep in the Heart of a Rose", "Have You News of My Boy, Jack?", "Home to our mountains", "Lascia ch'io pianga", "Like to the Damask Rose", "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix", "O don fatale", "Oh! That we two were maying", "Ombra mai fu", "O righteous God", "O That We Two Were Maying", "Plaisir d'amour", "Pres des remparts de Seville", "Printemps qui commence", "Rose in the Bud", "The pretty creature", "Three Fishers Went Sailing", "Vanika's Song", "Voce di donna")
D5 ("Agnus Dei", "Am Meer", "Amours, viens aider ma faiblesse", "As Once in May", "Auld Robin Gray", "Caller herrin", "Che farò senza Euridice", "Deep in the Heart of a Rose", "Ebben qual nuovo fremito", "Home to our mountains", "L'amo come il fulgor", "Lascia ch'io pianga", "Like to the Damask Rose", "My Ships", "Non piu di fiori", "Now sleeps the crimson petal", "One Spring Morning", "O rest in the Lord", "Plaisir d'amour", "Pres des remparts de Seville", "Stride la vampa", "T'eri un giorno ammalato", "The Lost Chord", "Voce di donna", "When All Was Young", "When the Stars Were Young")

Significant Low Notes:

C♯4 ("Amours, viens aider ma faiblesse", "Ebben qual nuovo fremito", "Have You News of My Boy, Jack?", "It is Not Because Your Heart is Mine", "L'amo come il fulgor", "Love is a Dream", "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix", "My Ships", "Now sleeps the crimson petal", "Ombra mai fu", "Pres des remparts de Seville", "Sapphische Ode", "The pretty creature", "There Is a Green Hill")
C4 ("And He shall feed his flock", "Auld Robin Gray", "Che farò senza Euridice", "Deep in the Heart of a Rose", "Non piu di fiori", "O don fatale", "O rest in the Lord", "Vanika's Song", "When the Stars Were Young")
B3 ("Am Meer", "Amours, viens aider ma faiblesse", "Caller herrin", "Che farò senza Euridice", "My Treasure", "My Ships", "Now sleeps the crimson petal", "Printemps qui commence", "The Willow Song", "Three Fishers Went Sailing")
B♭3 ("A Summer Night", "Auld Robin Gray", "Ebben qual nuovo fremito", "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix", "O don fatale", "O righteous God", "Plaisir d'amour", "Pres des remparts de Seville", "Soul of Mine", "Vanika's Song", "Voce di donna", "When the Stars Were Young")
A3 ("Caller herrin", "O Lovely Night", "Sapphische Ode", "Stride la vampa", "The Lost Chord", "Voce di donna")
G♯3 ("Amours, viens aider ma faiblesse", "A Summer Night", "Have You News of My Boy, Jack?", "My Treasure", "O don fatale", "Rose in the Bud")
G3 ("Like to the Damask Rose", "Non piu di fiori", "Three Fishers Went Sailing", "When All Was Young")
F3 ("It is Not Because Your Heart is Mine")
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[SailorBlue]

Cursed thresholds

[kaji]

Dec 27, 2021 3:25:09 GMT SailorBlue said:

Cursed thresholds

Not particularly. Pretty regular for classical singers. You would find a lot of soprano threads starting at E5-F5 and D4-E4 as well. 

[rob]

Dec 27, 2021 6:04:22 GMT kaji said:

Dec 27, 2021 3:25:09 GMT SailorBlue said:

Cursed thresholds

Not particularly. Pretty regular for classical singers. You would find a lot of soprano threads starting at E5-F5 and D4-E4 as well. 

It's true, using an anecdote, my girlfriend is trained in opera, and a lot of the time she only needs to bottom out around a mid 4th octave for what she sings, and everything else starts around the early fifth octave, so these types of thresholds are fairly realistic to what classical singer repertoires are like. I could be mistaken, but I believe for most tenors in opera, they're usually looking at around 2 octaves depending on the performance, between C3-C5.

[kaji]

Dec 27, 2021 6:49:30 GMT rob said:

Dec 27, 2021 6:04:22 GMT kaji said:

Not particularly. Pretty regular for classical singers. You would find a lot of soprano threads starting at E5-F5 and D4-E4 as well. 

It's true, using an anecdote, my girlfriend is trained in opera, and a lot of the time she only needs to bottom out around a mid 4th octave for what she sings, and everything else starts around the early fifth octave, so these types of thresholds are fairly realistic to what classical singer repertoires are like. I could be mistaken, but I believe for most tenors in opera, they're usually looking at around 2 octaves depending on the performance, between C3-C5.

Yeah absolutely. People often also do not realise that the ‘classical’ range is generally supposed to be all projected and audible without a microphone, and cut through an orchestra. Which is why most tenor repertoire doesn’t go below Bb2 for example. Even baritones will typically not go down there much, so thread thresholds will be more akin to that of a pop tenor in the low end probably. For women it is different because they sing primarily in head voice so the range thresholds will obviously be highly influenced by that. While a D4 will NOT be an actual LOW note for them, it will be low relative to the overall range they sing in.