Myleene Klass and Katherine Jenkins working on an opera reality TV show
Myleene Klass and Katherine Jenkins are reportedly planning a new opera reality TV show.
The Daily Mail claims that the show will air on ITV1 and will see current popstars trained to become opera stars.
Klass will present the show, while Jenkins will be one of the judges.
“They are looking for a male host to present with Myleene and a male judge to sit on the panel with Katherine,” a source said. “The producers are very keen on having Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul Potts on the panel.”
The insider continued: “It will be the panel’s job to train popstars to sing opera – and each week one of the hopefuls will be voted off.
“There’s a lot of excitement about having Myleene and Katherine on the same show. They are both big names and they can both be divas.”
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Sorry but this has got to be a farce.
The majority of pop artists will admit privately to having a secret love of operatic and classical music, but to do a reality show based upon this is obviously being done for a laugh.
Instead why don’t they encourage these pop artists to give some classical and operatic masterpeices their own particular slant ie, Quasi Michael Bolton has already done an excellent Cd of such pieces but it is not a typical classical album. Instead it is very contemporary.
This is a joke and a slap in the face for any genuinely talented operatic singers who go through years of training and hard work to make a career for themselves.
Neither of the ‘judges’ have been anywhere near an operatic stage and I am afraid that this will be just another cheap attempt at making money by people who didn’t have the goods to ‘make it’ properly. It is, once again, a case of the blind leading the blind! Unfortunately, this will turn a great number of the less classically inclined public away from experiencing some of the most beautiful and genuine music ever written purely because it will become associated with something so tacky.
Luckily, no operatic artist with serious credentials, experience and notoriety will EVER go near this freak show!
Hello LittleFAIRY,
I don’t think it is a slap in the face for any trained voice. It is about reality tv not so much how great or how terrible a voice will be.
It could also do the world of classical music a favour. As sales of classical music is as always descirbed as ticking over. In the world of classical music very few artists make ends meet via the recording industry side of things, whole orchestras barely cover their costs.
Where the classical singer/operatic singers earns their bread and indeed their reputation is via performance only. The same could be said of musicians.
In fairness the only people who seem to make a real profit ouit of having trained for years and sang for decades is never more than a handful of names in a ten year period.
As a classical singer myself I am really annoyed that the professional doors of opera companies are not open or welcoming to those from a working class background, had they been open many more operatic singers would have become known. That is what is really annoying, no matter how much people dress it up to say that elitism doesn’t exist the fact that opportunities are very few and far between means elitism is stronger than ever.
Even those singers who have had classical training alone without the constant demands made upon the voice to be more operatic find the doors to the world of opera closed to them.
With reference to Kathryn Jenkins, the girl is classically trained but has acknowledged herself that her operatic voice has yet to develop and be given the opportunity in a role. This is sadly a truth she could be at least 33 or 35 before an opportunity like this comes along. This is due to the changing nature of the human voice and the development of her true vocal register quality. At present she is a Mezzo Soprano in terms of voice range, but the warmth the depth and the mystery of tone that makes a MEzzo Soprano exactly that is what needs to develop next. It could be well over a decade later before this voice is peaking at its best ie 43 – 45.
Instead most of the regional classical/operatic singerws become consumers of music and try to survive at the same time in our regions often earning our bread by other means.
As far as the less classically inclined, the truth of the matter is that since the rise of popular music people have strayed away from listening to classical music and this has affected at least 2 or more generations of people since the 1960’s.
Regarding the show I don’t expect it to turn rockers into opera stars, but it might be interesting to hear how much the pop and rock voice could improve with just the slightest amount of training, especially where those artists have been avoiding any form of training at all. Afterall most older generation pop and rock artists who have lasted the test of time have had some classical training.
Why not lets a have a tv show based upon this, it could turn out to be a lifeline to classical music and classical musicians or must they always be poles apart?
The end result should be contemporary.