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One vocal coach shares his experience working with stars on roles where they play singers – or sing live.
In an interview, Vetro spoke about his work and sharing his tips and techniques in an online BBC Maestro course.
Q: What are the go-tos of a session with you?
Vetro: “I’m really careful in listening to (clients) and observing them and then I get a strong intuition of what they need. So some people I’ll be working more on technique right from the start, improving their voice. Some people, it’s more a matter of helping them to preserve their voice.”
Q: How did you prepare Angelina Jolie for “Maria”?
Vetro: “Seven months is nothing in training to become an opera singer, especially if you have never sung at all. And so, the first… lessons were just about making a sound… then we’d start doing a little bit more daring exercises… she was very diligent, she worked really hard, was very dedicated to it, and each week it would get a little bit better.
“And little by little, she started projecting her voice and all of a sudden, all these high notes started coming out. And we were all like, ‘Oh, she’s a soprano’.”
Q: How much more pressure is there when actors portray real-life singers?
Vetro: “I always try to think, what is it about this person that makes them so special? And if you can capture that, you’re ahead of the game right there… you can do an impersonation of someone and sound like them, but it doesn’t really capture their magic.”
Q: What has it been like making a course for the public?
Vetro:”I talk about the holistic approach to singing: what you eat, what you drink, that affects your voice, what you do all day… I try to put in a lot of really common sense tips…(and) everything that I tell all the stars that I work with.”
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