scholarly journals Dysphonia in opera singers due to psychogenic disorders

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarós P ◽  
Karlikowska A ◽  
Clarós-Pujol A ◽  
Clarós A ◽  
Pujol C
Keyword(s):  
Psychogenic Disorders ◽  
Opera Singers

Extraordinary voices: Helen Keller, music and the limits of oralism

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Michael Accinno
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Vocal Production ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
Human Voice ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
Helen Keller ◽  
Voice Teacher ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Opera Singers

Abstract This article examines iconic American deafblind writer Helen Keller's entræ#169;e into musical culture, culminating in her studies with voice teacher Charles A. White. In 1909, Keller began weekly lessons with White, who deepened her understanding of breathing and vocal production. Keller routinely made the acquaintance of opera singers in the 1910s and the 1920s, including sopranos Georgette Leblanc and Minnie Saltzman-Stevens, and tenor Enrico Caruso. Guided by the cultural logic of oralism, Keller nurtured a lively interest in music throughout her life. Although a voice-centred world-view enhanced Keller's cultural standing among hearing Americans, it did little to promote the growth of a shared identity rooted in deaf or deafblind experience. The subsequent growth of Deaf culture challenges us to reconsider the limits of Keller's musical practices and to question anew her belief in the extraordinary power of the human voice.

Reaching the Operatic Stage: The Geographical and Social Origins of British and Irish Opera Singers, c.1850–c.1960

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-352
Author(s):  
Dave Russell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Education System ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Collective Biography ◽  
Opera Singers

AbstractThe backgrounds of opera singers have received little systematic study and this article attempts to help redress this situation through analysis of a collective biography of 344 British and Irish-born performers active in the century from 1850. It argues that certain areas, notably London and Wales, made a particularly significant contribution to the operatic profession and notes that certain other patterns of regional under- and over-production are discernible. While singers from a broadly defined middle class were numerically dominant within this sample, this study stresses the unexpectedly strong contribution from those born into the lower-middle and working classes. Such performers were able to build on skills honed in the amateur musical sphere partly as a result of an expanding state-funded higher education system, but also due to an extraordinary variety of forms of patronage. The ‘popular’ social tone of singers, however, is shown to have done little to challenge perceptions of opera as an elitist cultural form.

The Epidemiology of Psychogenic Disorders and Consequences for Prevention

1989 ◽  
Vol 52 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 10-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Reister ◽  
W. Tress ◽  
H. Schepank ◽  
R. Manz ◽  
B. Sollors-Mossler
Keyword(s):  
Psychogenic Disorders

scholarly journals Arytenoid asymmetry in opera singers

2018 ◽  
Vol 135 (6) ◽  
pp. 389-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Clarós ◽  
A. Clarós-Pujol ◽  
A. Clarós
Keyword(s):  
Opera Singers

scholarly journals Long-term results of tonsillectomy in professional opera singers: a pilot study

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 815
Author(s):  
Pedro Clarós ◽  
Aleksandra Sobolewska ◽  
María Del Carmen Pujol ◽  
Astrid Clarós-Pujol ◽  
Andrés Clarós
Keyword(s):  
Survey Study ◽  
Long Term Results ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Recurrent Tonsillitis ◽  
Voice Performance ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Opera Singers ◽  
The Voice

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> The primary goal of this study was to evaluate the long-term influence of tonsillectomy on the quality of life and voice performance of opera singers. Survey study which was reviewing the long-term effects of tonsillectomy.  </p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> Retrospective review of patients’ records and surveys in which patients have answered the questions about the influence of tonsillectomy on their voice. A total group of 30 singers was included in the study. They answered the questions about the indications for surgery, symptoms, and changes in their voice after surgery. The study group consisted of 19 women and 11 men. Mean age was 18.53 years old at the moment of surgery. The group included eleven sopranos, six mezzos, two contraltos, four tenors, five baritones, and one bass singer.  </p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> A most common indication for tonsillectomy in opera singers was recurrent tonsillitis and was present in over 83% of cases. After surgery, the voice performance was better in 60% of cases, breathing improved in 50% of cases, voice emission was higher in 53% of cases. Over 80% of singers would recommend that surgery to another opera singer.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Singers evaluated long-term influence of tonsillectomy as positive. Over 80% admitted improved effect on emission and the function of voice.</p>

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