New sopranist

Hi
My name is Leandro, sopranist, i study in the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland. Well i would like to share my stuff, videos, recording and know new people.
This is my page

Leandro Samuel Bermudez Lafont on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

Also i have some videos in youtube:
YouTube - G.B.PERGOLESI - SE TU M'AMI
YouTube - G.F.Händel-lascia ch'io pianga-Rinaldo
YouTube - G.F. HÄNDEL- HOW BEAUTIFULL ARE THE FEET- THE MESSIAH
YouTube - G.F.HANDEL-HO PERSO IL CARO BEN-IL PARNASO IN FESTA
YouTube - Three John Abell ariette

They are the most recent.

I hope u like them and i also i would like to keep in contact from people from the group.

Thanks.
Leandro

Welcome to the community, I am very happy to have you here . You're voice is of great quality and very natural in sound. With further training, it could be quite indistinguisible from a true soprano's. Have you listened to Patrick Husson and Randall Wong? They are the singers I know of who have acheived this, although Max Emanuel Cencic was also very close to it. They are both great examples of baroque trained voices and so is the natural male soprano Radu Marian. I'm sure you could learn a lot by listening to their voices.

Welcome again .

I am glad that you have joined our little community. I enjoyed listening to your voice on your videos.

In addition to the excellent singers listed in the previous posting, make sure you listen a lot to countertenor Andreas Scholl. His voice is not so high as yours; however, his vocal technique, tone, and verbal enunciation are very precise, clean, and controlled, exactly what is required for good Baroque-aria singing. He has studied voice and music his whole life, starting out as a recognized superior boy soprano and continuing on without a break to developing into a premier alto countertenor.

Best wishes for your continued training.

Hi, i'm so glad to have you here, because i wanna also study next year in the schola; Your voice is sooooooooooooooooooo beautifull. Who is your teacher? Evelyn or Andreas? or somebody else?

From his 'About Me' page:

Hi
I am so sorry for answering so laaaaate, i forgot my password....sorry
Thank you very much for your compliments, well are u applying for the schola?
if u can study there it would be a nice time to know all the style and every details, really if u do it, it would be good.
The schola is also hard, but u can learn a lot.
Let me know.

Leandro.

Bump: Thank you very much, and i am sorry to reply so late... I forgot my password and not oly that...i forgot the address.

Well but here i am. smile

Also thanks for this site.

Leandro.

Bump: Thank you very much, and i am sorry to reply so late... I forgot my password and not oly that...i forgot the address.

Well but here i am. smile

Also thanks for this site.

Leandro.

yes i am, because a friend of ine already studies in basel 8but at the normal music school) . and i'm gonna visit it in octobre and then i'm gonna make the test and we'll see

Sorry, Leonardo, but I disliked your recordings. Shouting in a very high voice does not always mean to be a good countertenor.
You lack dramatic skills and colour.
As for "Lasia ch'io pianga"... This one is a female aria, and I don't advise you to include it into you repertory. Women in pants look ridiculous and so do men in skirts!

you have no idea. First: maybe he is a bit sharp, but it shows his high range
second: many castrati had their debut in a female role (especially in rome were women were forbiddeen
third: for the baroque and post-baroque "opera seria" there was nothing ridiculous about a woman or man pretending being the other sexe.
No, au contraire: it was a symbol for the magic world that one could imagine to forget the reality and just float around.
fourth: if say thats nonsense you could also say high singing males is nonsense, but it is only a sign for the everlasting youth of the "primo uomo".

So: if you think the opera conventions of former times are ridiculous you shouldn't be a member of a homepage which is so strongly related by ITS subjEct (CASTRATI!) TO THEM


p:s: IF LOOK ON MY PROFILE YOU WILL SEE A PHOTO OF ME WEARING MY COSTUME FOR MY ROLE AS PROSERPINA IN mONTEVERDI'S ORFEO

Yes the highest notes are hard edged but most of his recordings are 4 years old ( you can see that he says he recorded them in 2004 in the videos' descriptions on YouTube ). Perhaps Leandro can re-record Lascia ch'io pianga for us Until then my favourite from him is YouTube - G.F.HANDEL-HO PERSO IL CARO BEN-IL PARNASO IN FESTA. Perhaps you should listen to that to better determine the quality of his voice presently ( although that recording is a year old ).

Thank you for posting this record, I see, Leandro is developing and that's nice. His high notes don't sound forced now. I haven't noticed the year when the previous arias were recorded, for I was confused by Leandro's remark "they are the most recent".
As for my not fitting this site... I think it's dedicated not only to CASTRATI but to COUNTERTENORS (or male sopranos) as well (I think, Leandro is not a CASTRATO?). And opera conventions of the past are not always good for them. Besides everyone has his personal opinion and the right to express it freely. Moreover, I wanted to help our new sopranist to improve his singing. Though now, due to Puer Aeternus I see, Leandro has corrected his mistkes.

Bump: PS Ildivorenatello, a nice costume you wear. Are you its designer... or?

sorry for overreacting a bit. No it was designed by a good friend of mine. Of course its also dedicated to countertenors, too, but i am always a bit old fashioned in my opinions. for me it would be best if one could turn back time

My personal taste regarding singing voices places foremost the best possible vocal beauty and appropriate technical skill, regardless whether male or female.

The visual element on stage does add another dimension, however. As an example, soprano Michael Maniaci replacing (at the last moment) a female singer in a male role certainly added to the successful stage presence in the Meyerbeer opera. He also was successful in a Mozart pants role usually sung by women. It would be interesting to see/hear a really good male soprano sing the role of teenage Octavian in Richard Strauss' "Rosenkavalier."

I saw a mezzo-soprano succeed fairly well both as Nerone in Monteverdi's "Coronation of Poppea" and also as Rinaldo in "Rinaldo;" however, in contrast, I also suffered through the agony of a warbling, 250 pound mezzo singing Ceaser in "Julio Cesare."

it's baroque sense also to change the sexes of the roles; and in baroque everybody wanted to be fat, so that would also very historic

Thus, Sex interchanges is the matter of taste... and history.

Bump: Everything is OK, in fact, it's me who is often inpatient and a little bit categorical.
I can understand you, coz I sometimes dream to live in the 18th century Venice.

me too, that's why i have let me make some costumes; i like that very much