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Demeter

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9. Pregnancy and childbirth do affect vocal production

Reply to ismnotwasm (Original post)

Thu May 22, 2014, 07:07 AM

May 2014

When carrying around a large fetus, there's much less space for air. After delivery, there are flaccid muscles that have to recover their springiness and shape to sustain air volume and pitch. But that's about 6 months' worth of diversion from singing full voice....

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An opera singer’s backlash wasn’t just sexism [View all] ismnotwasm May 2014 OP

sadly, we are not in the least surprised. niyad May 2014 #1

Seriously? catrose May 2014 #2

We don't need it anywhere, and yet it's everywhere Warpy May 2014 #3

+1 nomorenomore08 May 2014 #14

Wow. How utterly disgusting theHandpuppet May 2014 #4

Good grief! She is a beautiful young woman. You're right, justhanginon May 2014 #5

Gees! Apparently nobody in opera has ever seen or heard any of the following women sing... longship May 2014 #6

What do these critics know of opera, really? Some of the greatest opera singer of both genders have freshwest May 2014 #7

None of the Three Tenors were exactly svelte, were they? nomorenomore08 May 2014 #15

Nope, not really. Pavarotti was a favorite of mine for years: freshwest May 2014 #18

And operagoers don't give a flying fuck. Really. eridani May 2014 #8

Nice! ismnotwasm May 2014 #11

That is fantastic! geardaddy May 2014 #12

+3 nomorenomore08 May 2014 #16

Pregnancy and childbirth do affect vocal production Demeter May 2014 #9

Thank you all for your replies ismnotwasm May 2014 #10

Body shaming aside, how embarassing for those reviewers that they have absolutely no understanding Squinch May 2014 #13

What idiocy. This bullshit is (or should be) beneath any halfway intelligent adult. n/t nomorenomore08 May 2014 #17