Article Title
Keywords
Nicolai Gedda, opera
Abstract
When Nicolai Gedda died on January 1st 2017, the world of Opera and Classical Music lost one of the most accomplished, and certainly most versatile tenors of the 20th Century. His linguistic, vocal, and musical skills gave him the ability to master a remarkable number of musical styles. Included in Gedda’s stage, concert, and recorded repertoire are Oratorios by Bach and Handel, Operas by Gluck, Weber, Adam, Bizet, Massenet, Gounod, Berlioz, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, Flotow, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Barber; Operettas by Strauss and Lehar; German, French, Russian, Swedish, and English Art Songs, and Russian Folk Songs. In all of this vast and eclectic repertoire Gedda is vocally, musically, and stylistically correct. To reach this level of accomplishment requires intelligence, vocal and musical talent, discipline, and thousands of hours spent acquiring and perfecting a vocal technique. It is Gedda’s vocal technique that I would like to examine.
Recommended Citation
Lawrenz, Carl
(2018)
"The Gedda Technique,"
Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK: Vol. 26:
No.
1, Article 12.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jussibjorlingsociety/vol26/iss1/12