ClassicalCode » Opera http://blog.classicalcode.com Music, Software, Finds Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:34:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 FachMe: Find your roles http://blog.classicalcode.com/2011/05/fachme-find-your-roles/ http://blog.classicalcode.com/2011/05/fachme-find-your-roles/#comments Mon, 30 May 2011 03:40:39 +0000 Jordan Eldredge http://blog.classicalcode.com/?p=892 I built a data-driven website to help opera singers find roles which are likely to suite their voice. The name is a questionable pun based on the German fach system for classifying voices. I present to you FachMe:

The fach system is widely used to help singers find opera roles which will “fit” their voice. The problem is that human voices are infinitely variable while there are only a set number of fachs. My goal was to create a service that would bypass the limits of the fach system and allow singers to find roles which are suitable for their voice.

How does it work?

FachMe uses a database of the recording careers of over 15,000 actual singers to recommend roles which are statistically likely to suite the users voice. When the user arrives, they are prompted to supply a list of roles which they know suite their voice. We then search the database for other singers who have sung these guide roles and create a profile of the user. We can assume that the user’s voice is somewhat similar to all of the singers in their profile, so we pull all the roles that the singers in their profile have sung. We then sort this massive list of roles, which are at least tangentially related to the user, based on which roles appear most prominently. The results are a list of roles which are most similar to the roles input by the user.

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]]> http://blog.classicalcode.com/2011/05/fachme-find-your-roles/feed/ 0 Fly Duet from Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers http://blog.classicalcode.com/2010/02/fly-duet-from-offenbachs-orphee-aux-enfers/ http://blog.classicalcode.com/2010/02/fly-duet-from-offenbachs-orphee-aux-enfers/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:50:20 +0000 Jordan Eldredge http://blog.classicalcode.com/?p=804 To raise money for her graduate school audition tour, my girlfriend Chelsea and the amazing pianist Stephen Damonte, put on a fundraiser recital. I joined her for the Fly Duet from Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers in which Jupiter disguised as a fly (myself) seduces the innocent Eurydice (Chelsea). If you want to help her achieve her goal of going to graduate school, you can donate at her website.

Fly Duet from Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers:

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]]> http://blog.classicalcode.com/2010/02/fly-duet-from-offenbachs-orphee-aux-enfers/feed/ 3 SFSU Opera Gala: Papageno Papagena Duet http://blog.classicalcode.com/2008/10/sfsu-opera-gala-papageno-papagena-duet/ http://blog.classicalcode.com/2008/10/sfsu-opera-gala-papageno-papagena-duet/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:46:37 +0000 Jordan Eldredge http://blog.classicalcode.com/?p=127 Last Friday I performed the Papageno Papagena Duet in San Francisco State’s Opera Gala. Papagena is sung by my friend Sanja Wetzel and the whole ordeal was staged by Alissa Deeter. Video:

papagena/papageno duet from die zauberflöte from sanjwich on Vimeo.

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]]> http://blog.classicalcode.com/2008/10/sfsu-opera-gala-papageno-papagena-duet/feed/ 0 Opera stuff looking for good home (free) http://blog.classicalcode.com/2008/04/opera-stuff-looking-for-good-home-free/ http://blog.classicalcode.com/2008/04/opera-stuff-looking-for-good-home-free/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:57:37 +0000 Jordan Eldredge http://blog.classicalcode.com/?p=73 Opera LibrettoThe other day I responded to an ad for free opera libretti and magazines on Craigslist. The woman was trying to find a good home for about eight boxes of what turned out to be her deceased friend’s libretti, Opera News, and San Francisco Opera programs.

The libretti are going in to my library (more on that later) but the rest is of little interest to me, as I don’t have the time to go through them. The woman who died was a life long opera fan so these items span a range of dates. I would imagine that the programs especially have some value as collectible items. Let me know if you are interested in rooting through them. They are yours if you want them.

As for the libretti, there were about 41 of them. I got them because, as a singer, they can be VERY helpful in translating arias and entire roles. If you are ever interested in borrowing any of them, I have listed my complete collection after the jump:

Beethoven – Fidelio
Bellini – La Sonnambula
Britten – Billy Budd
Britten – Peter Grimes
Donizetti – La fille du régiment
Gounod – Faust
Handle – Orlando
Henze – Elegy for Young Lovers
Imbrie – Angle of Repose
Janáček – Jenůfa
Lehár – The Merry Widow
Leoncavallo – I Pagliacci
Mascangni – Cavalleria Rusticana
Massenet – Thaïs
Massenet – Cendrillon
Massenet – Esclarmonde
Massenet – Le Cid
Massenet – Werther
Meyerbeer – L’Africaine
Monteverdi – L’incoronazione di Poppea
Mozart – Così fan tutte
Mozart – Don Giovanni
Mozart – Idomeneo (2x)
Mozart – Le nozze di Figaro (2x)
Mozart – The Magic Flute (2x)
Puccini – Gianni Schicchi (x2)
Puccini – Il Tabarro
Puccini – La bohème
Puccini – Nabucco
Puccini – Turandot
Reimann – Lear
Rossini – Il Barbiere Di Siviglia
Rossini – La Cenerentola
Rossini – Maomentto Secondo
Rossini – Semiramide
Sallinen – Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan
Schostakovich – Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Strauss – Arabella
Strauss, R – Die ägyptische Helena
Struass, R – Die Frou ohne Schatten
Tippett – The Midsummer Marriage
Verdi – Don Carlos
Verdi – Falstaff
Wagner – Das Rheingold
Wagner – Der fliegende Holländer
Wagner – Götterdämmerung
Wagner – Siegfried (2x)
Wagner – Tristan und Isolde

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