Rosa Ponselle (January 22, 1897 May 25, 1981). Perfectly balanced developed and coordinated lower register and falsetto/headvoice which gives ultimate chiaroscuro to the sound. Dark and clear. Rosa Ponselle wrote in her autobiography: “Although there is some disagreement about the number and kinds of registers in the singing voice, I have always found it accurate, as I've said elsewhere here, to dissect the voice into “chest“ and “head“ components. In various segments of a voice's overall range, eithe
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