VIBRATO!!!!!!

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VIBRATO!!!!!!

Posted: 9/29/08 at 9:16pm

Kings and Queens of Vibrato

1. Raul Esparza
2. Renee Elise Goldsberry
3. Eden Espinosa
4. Michael Elroy
5. Julia Murney


and you

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#2

re: VIBRATO!!!!!!

Posted: 9/29/08 at 9:17pm

Bernadette Peters

#3

re: VIBRATO!!!!!!

Posted: 9/29/08 at 9:22pm

No, she does not beet raul, but I'll put her at 1 1/2 because I don't feel like editing right now.

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#4

re: VIBRATO!!!!!!

Posted: 9/29/08 at 9:26pm

Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie would definitely have to be up there.

#5

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Posted: 9/29/08 at 9:32pm

Does anyone beat Christine Andreas?

And Judy Kuhn!

#6

re: VIBRATO!!!!!!

Posted: 9/29/08 at 9:36pm

Darius De Haas' is so wide you could fall thru it. Listen to him on the Dreamgirls Concert recording. UGH...

#7

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Posted: 9/29/08 at 9:37pm

Betsy Joslyn!

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#8

re: VIBRATO!!!!!!

Posted: 9/29/08 at 9:39pm

I hate Raul's vibrato.

Norm Lewis and Philip Quast have it...

Eric Kunze has it and I hate it.

Tony Roberts!

Orfeh, sometimes.

LAURA BENANTI .

MICHAEL BALL.

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#9

re: VIBRATO!!!!!!

Posted: 9/29/08 at 9:41pm

Carolee Carmello!!

#10

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Posted: 9/29/08 at 9:45pm

I would hardly consider Laura Benanti a queen of vibrato.

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#11

re: VIBRATO!!!!!!

Posted: 9/29/08 at 9:49pm

MICHAEL BALL.

I've heard him described as sounding like he's sitting on a washing machine on spin cycle. I love his vibrato, though.

BNN-- I still have nightmares about Betsy Joslyn as Johanna in "Sweeney Todd!"

Lea Salonga has pretty fierce vibrato.

I really love Sean Palmer's vibrato. There's nothing that notable about it, but something about it just makes me so happy. Susan Egan has lovely vibrato as well.

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#12

re: VIBRATO!!!!!!

Posted: 9/29/08 at 10:08pm

"Darius De Haas' is so wide you could fall thru it. Listen to him on the Dreamgirls Concert recording. UGH..."

AMEN!

#13

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Posted: 9/29/08 at 10:24pm

Audra McDonald

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#14

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Posted: 9/29/08 at 10:32pm

Leigh Ann Larkin.

#15

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Posted: 9/30/08 at 6:38am

Douglas Sills has amazing vibrato. Christine Andreas has CRAZY vibrato-- I personally don't like her voice, though I know a lot of people do-- and when they sing duets together on the Scarlet Pimpernel recording, it's like SUPER-VIBRATO.

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#16

re: VIBRATO!!!!!!

Posted: 9/30/08 at 8:54am

Betsy Joslyn gives me a headache. I usually have to skip over "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" when I watch my Sweeney recording.

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#17

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Posted: 9/30/08 at 9:28am

I second Audra McDonald.

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#18

re: VIBRATO!!!!!!

Posted: 9/30/08 at 12:14pm

CAROLEE CARMELLO.

I know she's already been said, but all others pale in comparison to that vibrato!

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#19

re: VIBRATO!!!!!!

Posted: 9/30/08 at 12:20pm

Julia Murney is the first person that comes to mind when I hear the word vibrato. As is Eden Espinosa even though I was listening to her in Brooklyn and she didn't have it then.

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#20

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Posted: 9/30/08 at 12:27pm

Even though it bothers me a little bit sometimes, I think Carollee Carmello takes the crown.
Also Raul Esparza, and Norm Lewis

#21

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Posted: 9/30/08 at 12:28pm

And I forgot Bebe Neuwirth! Her vibrato is ridiculous.

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#22

re: VIBRATO!!!!!!

Posted: 9/30/08 at 2:22pm

Um...vibrato...what about it? It's a healthy component of good singing. It can be objectionable, certainly. But what does it mean to be a "king or queen" of vibrato? Wide vibrato? Fast? Slow? Pleasant? Unpleasant?

All these names people are posting: Are these people you find good or bad, in terms of vibrato?

There's a lot to discuss about vibrato as a component of singing, and I see a little of that going on here, but this thread seems really unfocused. Pretty much every singer on Broadway has vibrato. Why don't you start a thread about noses or ears? They've all got those, too.

#23

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Posted: 9/30/08 at 2:53pm

I have to put out one of my favorite German musical theatre performers:

Thomas Borchert.

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#24

re: VIBRATO!!!!!!

Posted: 9/30/08 at 3:08pm

Sparrman: What I'm getting from this thread is performers who have a very distinct and probably wide vibrato. There is a definite wobble, I guess you could say, to their voices that happens constantly not just when they hold extended notes or end a musical phrase. Its present all the time. That's what I got from the thread and why I mentioned Carolee Carmello, who I do like a lot btw along with many of the other performers mentioned.

#25

re: VIBRATO!!!!!!

Posted: 9/30/08 at 3:39pm

Ma-Anne Dionisio has a weird vibrato

listening to Spring Awakening i always feel Lea Michele doesn't have one...

Paulo Szot has an awesome one

i hate my vibrato! haha