Donizetti

Now see, I think Tolkyn is a classic mezzo-soprano. Theoretically, and according to so-called experts that you will probably find in Universities nowadays, it is maybe only a very highly-trained and special kind of coloratura soprano who can get these changes and who realistically has the required range. But I don't think so.

For one thing, pretty much all mezzo sopranos do have the range in any case; that's why they are already 'sopranos.' And secondly, they all want to show off and to show you what they can do, if only because they often get only the secondary dramatic roles in productions.

This is Mozart's The Magic Flute

This piece is a classic dramatic mezzo-soprano song. The thing I have linked to below... It is well-known as the 'impossible song' or the alien diva song from the Bruce Willis movie 'The Fifth Element.' Sometimes it is simply known as the diva song, even in standard opera circles.

It is in fact just straight opera from out of Gaetano Donizett's Luci di Lammermoor. Which in itself, frankly, is a bit peculiar of a libretto, because it is basically Romeo & Juliet with Spanish Arabic names but set in the Scottish mountainsides. It's also about death, as many of these kinds of stories are.

The real problem with the song itself is not whether someone with the range can get the range, but how they control the volume between the vocal phrases - most people make the mistake of over-cooking it when the dramatic part comes, even if they hit the notes.

Tolkyn does not make those mistakes, or any mistakes - and if you have the ear, you can probably hear the resonant timbre at her lower notes which are typical of the mezzo soprano.

Kubrick's Magic Flute - sorry, Eyes Wide Shut, yes...

Now if you think this song has been tampered with to get it to sound so futuristic you're wrong, it is exactly as is from 1835 with the addition formally, of some cadenza work for voice and flute written in 1888.

If those of you who have been reading here diligently, want a certificate of occultism or anything else you think would be appropriate you can email me and we work something out along those lines...

You see, there is no one alive on the planet right now except me and thee, who understand the relevance of the fact that the piece was originally written for voice and glass harmonica...

Yes? Nod nod. Wink wink. Yes? We've been through this before, but you forget already...

Anyone anyone?

Just very quickly I will note that as you all will certainly know, Mozart's The Magic Flute is notorious as a Freemasonic ritual of some elevated status among occultists.

Again though, this is not to say that there are any modern day Freemasons or even that many occultists who would have the single foggiest clue as to why - they would presume things about the pillars and all of the obvious symbolism. All the fireworks start at 4:12 in.