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The one I'm studying at the moment for my HSC... the Telephone Aria from Menotti's opera, "The Telephone". It's scarily fun to sing - basically a coloratura ditz singing a one-sided phone conversation - but staccato between high A and C? A gliss running to a sustained high D, and then a chromatic run downwards? I know I'm not a coloratura or anywhere near good enough to be considered thus, so I don't know why I'm singing it - but it's so much fun!
One of my other pieces is rather avant-garde; nearly completely atonal (ever tried singing one atonal melody to an atonal accompaniment?) and the voice part is half spoken and filled with odd quirks like note bends and Sprechstimme. It's just hard to get out of the classical mindspace and into this weird piece.
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