The singer´s preparation for Brazilian classical music performance

voice, body and scenic aspects

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2025.57866

Keywords:

Vocal performance, Brazilian classical music, Voice and body, Sul fiato, Body language

Abstract

The vocal performer´s acting is conditioned to elements such as breathing, phonation and resonator devices, that must work through homogeneous and balanced way, aiming a performance free of unnecessary tensions. This technical apparat should support the vocal emission called sul fiato – through the air – and, in Brazilian´s Classical Music, there are other problems such as diction and phonation that emerges from spoken and sung language in Brazil. Aiming to solve occasional difficulties reported to that vocal performance of Brazilian Music, I´ve developed here a theoretical study that shows how the Opera Singer student and even the professional could improve their performance using dynamic and flexible body techniques, utilizing freedom and a certain mode of improvisation. The results were that when the performer integrate voice, body and scenic arguments, he can ally Brazilian classical music with a body specific language.

Author Biography

  • Pedro Razzante Vaccari, University of São Paulo, Brazil

    Post-doctoral student in Music at USP. Doctorate from Unesp. He was a cnpq pibic scholarship holder at the Arts Institute. He has experience in the field of Arts, with an emphasis on Music, working mainly on the following subjects: Brazilian concert music, lyrical singing in Brazil, choral singing and ethnomusicology of performance. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Music with a major in Singing from Unesp, under the guidance of Prof Dr Martha Herr. He was awarded a PIBIC Cnpq scholarship, which was renewed twice, under the guidance of Prof Dr Pelópidas Cypriano de Oliveira, and presented his work at the Unesp Congresses in 2005, 2006 and 2007. He came first in a competition at the Municipal Theatre of São Paulo and has been a member of the theatre's Paulistano Choir since December 2007. He has performed several solos with this choir. He was awarded a scholarship to the Campos do Jordão International Festival, where he took lessons with tenor Fernardo Portari throughout July 2007, and where he had the opportunity to sing in a Master Class with New Zealand soprano Dame Kiri te Kanawa. She took singing lessons in Stuttgart (Germany) with Prof Dr Ulrike Sonntag and in Buenos Aires (Argentina) with teacher and singer Irene Burt. In 2012 she recorded a CD of songs by Ronaldo Miranda, with pianist Eder Pessoa, under the supervision of the composer himself. He presented the same programme in recital on the Músicas que elevam programme on Boa Vontade TV. Approved for the Bach Akademie in Germany in 2014, he sang in Switzerland the same year, and was a panellist in New York in 2018. He was a panellist at the 2012 Unesp Scientific Initiation Congress. Her master's degree was in Ethnomusicology of Performance at Unesp, on the singing of the northeastern coco de embolada and its social and cultural influence in contemporary times. Also a poet, he has had poems published by Editora Chiado in Lisbon and Vivara in Brazil in six anthologies. His article ‘Padre José Maurício Nunes Garcia e o Mulatismo Musical: Embranquecimento histórico?’, published in the Revista Música da Universidade de São Paulo in August 2018, is the most important and complete of his doctoral research. She has also published in the Journal of Ethnomusicology of Turkey together with her supervisor, Dorotéa Kerr, and in the Orfeu Journal of UDESC. She studied in Frankfurt, Germany (2015), with Gerd Türk, in Milan, Italy (2016) with Nicola Pamio, in New York, USA, with Marko Lampas (2018) and in Berlin, Germany, with Birgit Wagner (2019). In 2019, he published an article in UnB's Revista Música em Contexto, in 2020 in Revista Internacional de Língua Portuguesa (RILP) and Revista Ictus, and in 2021 in USP's Revista da Tulha and presented a paper at the Anppom Congress. Since June 2018, he has been chapel master and conductor at Christ the Risen Parish in São Paulo, where he also teaches. He was a soloist in the Requiem by Father José Maurício Nunes Garcia (1816) and performed on Rádio UFRGS in November 2021. In 2021 he performed at the Cipem International Conference in Portugal, and published in Revista Nava, and in Revista Espaço acadêmico in 2022. Since 2019 he has been working in partnership with pianist and professor Miguel Laprano.

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2025-05-15

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“The singer´s Preparation for Brazilian Classical Music Performance: Voice, Body and Scenic Aspects”. 2025. Per Musi 26 (May): 1-17. https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2025.57866.