Truths from the Dark Ages
What the Old Italian School Got Right (and Wrong)
The phrase “The Old Italian School of Singing” has become a kind of incantation in voice studios, evoked with a hushed reverence that borders on the religious. But what do we actually mean when we say it? According to Edmund J. Myer in The Renaissance of the Vocal Art1, we might be invoking a myth more than a method.
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