Hardest Song You've Ever Had to Sing...

So yeah, I just got finished doing a concert of Bernstein Music... and... we did a medley from MASS...

and, I had to sing Fraction: Things Get Broken, and I have to say... it was definitely the hardest song I have EVER had to sing. It has a HUGE range, and it is almost 15 minutes long. And, you have to act it out... AND it has to be JUST right or it doesn't make any sense.

hardest song i had to sing was any song i have to sing because i DONT sing

"The Oldest Established" from Guys and Dolls is really hard to perform the first time. My high school just performed that musical, and I was one of the crapshooters. It is sooo hard, because, like "Fraction" you have to act while you're doing it, and the tenor line is insanely high to sing after you've just been jumping around the stage and carrying a guy on your shoulders. I think musical theater composers purposely write music like that to give the performers a workout

and the tenor line is insanely high to sing after you've just been jumping around the stage and carrying a guy on your shoulders.

How high is it?

"Qual Guerriero en Campo Armato," by Broschi... is the hardest thing I've ever sang (which I'm currently working on, btw). There are 4 leaps of a 7th in quick succession (which lead up to a high C), endless scales and arpeggios, a really mean part where one has to practically trill between high G and the C in the middle of the treble clef, a section where there are leaps of a 10th, and to top it all off, at the very end of the song, there's a 30 measure run that ends with a soprano B to the B in the middle of the treble clef that repeats itself 5 times.... That's the A section... but the B section is really easy.... and this is all in chest or middle voice (my teacher would kill me if I used falsetto).... this is what I get for being a soprano.

Some song from phantom of the opera. I sung the phantom's part for that particular song. It goes insanely high for a baritone and is sustained for about 20 seconds. I had to cut it to about ten though to make it possible.

Originally Posted by Eddwin0072

Some song from phantom of the opera. I sung the phantom's part for that particular song. It goes insanely high for a baritone and is sustained for about 20 seconds. I had to cut it to about ten though to make it possible.

Sounds like "Music of the Night". It's the musical theatre equivalent of the Prologue to Pagliacci when it comes to high baritone parts.

Samuel Barber: Mélodies Passagères
but then, I'm not used to singing solo.

Well I never had any true difficulty singing when I had a really good voice, but probably Credeasi Misera, from I Puritani.

Originally Posted by Daniel

How high is it?

I have a feeling it goes to about a G above the staff and stays there for a long time. I don't have the music anymore, so it's tough to tell.