Singing like Callas and Caruso

"Behind every weakness hides a talent!" is Dr. Karin Wettig's personal revelation. With her divorce came an almost total loss of her speaking voice. When voice therapy didn't heal her, she decided to sing. Leaving her home, her husband, her friends and her business in northern Germany behind her, she went to pursue her dream to sing Belcanto Arias. In Munich her adventure on the way to her authentic voice began. Vocal coaches, Belcanto teachers & Opera Schools were as disillusioning as her experience in a famous local choir. A master class with Ann Reynolds inspired her to write her first Belcanto Book about the Italian method for singers. Still not satisfied with her own voice, she started analyzing Maria Callas & exploring body therapies like Alexander Technique, Rolfing, Cantieni, Yoga. Lonely nights in spooky churches, practicing arias from Farinelli to Mozart, Bellini, Rossini & Verdi helped her develop her opera voice, while her "Sherlock Holmes nose" made her detect how her role model, Maria Callas, had trained herself to such a perfection. Her insights about theory & practice of Belcanto are defined in this book by a practical training for every singer on stage.

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Dr. Karin Wettig ist Vocal Coach und Personality Stylist in München. Bei ihrer Scheidung brach nicht das Herz, sondern die Stimme! Auf der Suche nach der authentischen Stimme begann sie zu singen. Aus dem Hobby wird eine Leidenschaft, die sie von der Stimmruine zum Koloratursopran führt. Auf der Spur des Geheimnisses von Callas und Caruso, findet Karin Wettig ihre authentische Opernstimme in der Synthese von italienischem Belcanto und moderner Körpertherapie. "Körper ist Bewusstsein und Stimmtechnik ist Ausdruck einer wunderbaren Körperbeherrschung. Sie funktioniert am besten, wenn der Sänger in seiner Mitte ist!" lautet die Essenz ihrer praktischen Erfahrung. Mit Rat und Tat hilft sie heute Menschen aller Altersstufen und Musikrichtungen, die authentische Stimme zu entdecken. "Singen wie Callas und Caruso" ist die Antwort auf die vielen Fragen von über 200 Teilnehmer ihrer Stimmkurse in München. Leichte praktische Übungen, die die Kehle zentrieren, die Wirbelsäule aufrichten und die Zunge lockern, sorgen für Spaß beim Selbststudium und Erfolg auf der Bühne, ganz gleich, ob es sich um Rock, Pop, Musical oder Oper handelt.

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Behind every weakness hides a talent! is Dr. Karin Wettig s personal revelation. With her divorce came an almost total loss of her speaking voice. When voice therapy didn t heal her, she decided to sing. Leaving her home, her husband, her friends and her business in northern Germany behind her, she went to pursue her dream to sing Belcanto Arias. In Munich her adventure on the way to her authentic voice began. Vocal coaches, Belcanto teachers & Opera Schools were as disillusioning as her experience in a famous local choir. A master class with Ann Reynolds inspired her to write her first Belcanto Book about the Italian method for singers. Still not satisfied with her own voice, she started analyzing Maria Callas & exploring body therapies like Alexander Technique, Rolfing, Cantieni, Yoga. Lonely nights in spooky churches, practicing arias from Farinelli to Mozart, Bellini, Rossini & Verdi helped her develop her opera voice, while her "Sherlock Holmes nose" made her detect how her role model, Maria Callas, had trained herself to such a perfection. Her insights about theory & practice of Belcanto are defined in this book by a practical training for every singer on stage.