7.7.18 A day off then the last show of the tour!!
Jul 7, 2018 13:31:33 GMT -5
Post by metislight on Jul 7, 2018 13:31:33 GMT -5
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What a great post! You put so eloquently in words what I felt when I saw Adam live. Indeed one can see that in his eyes. When he knows he nailed it! The note, the song, the performance. I too think its the reason he can't stand still many times that energy just makes him move constantly on the stage. I mean he can't just stand and sing even a ballad like WWTLF he has to move.
Craazyforadam
I do remember Adam saying he discovered his potential after he quit the vocal lessons. Cause sometimes someone told him not to sing higher than certain note, or not to sing in a certain way while he wanted to.
He is remarkable in that he uses all that amazing technique he learned, some of it on his own to sustain his voice & protect it, while also breaking the rules which he knows he can break, which would not have been allowed in a conservative world of opera singing.
Adam might have been a crossover singer like many other opera singers- Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman, katherine Jenkins to name a few. But I've heard it too about the constrains that the conservatories and the opera world in general has in classifying the singers and what the repertoire demands. It turned quite a lot of potential great singers away from that world because of that.
IHMO more than the rules about the singing & how to use the voice, Adam would not fit into the opera world because of who he is as a performer. Just as being himself caused him trouble in the music theater world, which is a bit less conservative than the opera. Adam could not fit in there either.
He has to have the stage all to himself, he steals the spotlight all the time. Its not that he can't blend in and share the spotlight but he is so natural a performer, he is just born to do this, that he can't help stealing all the attention. Its what I've seen at the Queen concerts where devoted queenies of different ages and genders who kept looking only at Brian & Roger at the beginning could not take their eyes of Adam by the end of the concert. They could not help it.
IMHO whenever Adam had to 'blend in" with the rest of the cast of the musicals he had to suppress a huge part of himself, that spirit he has as a performer. Even then I remember I read some reviews of the musicals, pre-Idol reviews and comments that he was sometimes too much himself and not the character he was supposed to be playing in the musical. I don't think its what Adam did, I just think people could not help but be distracted by the way Adam performed that it distracted them from the character Adam was playing.
cassie
I love reading all your posts. Adam did participate in classical opera competitions while in high school if I remember correctly. There was somewhere a photo of him at a tenor competition.
What a great post! You put so eloquently in words what I felt when I saw Adam live. Indeed one can see that in his eyes. When he knows he nailed it! The note, the song, the performance. I too think its the reason he can't stand still many times that energy just makes him move constantly on the stage. I mean he can't just stand and sing even a ballad like WWTLF he has to move.
Craazyforadam
I do remember Adam saying he discovered his potential after he quit the vocal lessons. Cause sometimes someone told him not to sing higher than certain note, or not to sing in a certain way while he wanted to.
He is remarkable in that he uses all that amazing technique he learned, some of it on his own to sustain his voice & protect it, while also breaking the rules which he knows he can break, which would not have been allowed in a conservative world of opera singing.
Adam might have been a crossover singer like many other opera singers- Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman, katherine Jenkins to name a few. But I've heard it too about the constrains that the conservatories and the opera world in general has in classifying the singers and what the repertoire demands. It turned quite a lot of potential great singers away from that world because of that.
IHMO more than the rules about the singing & how to use the voice, Adam would not fit into the opera world because of who he is as a performer. Just as being himself caused him trouble in the music theater world, which is a bit less conservative than the opera. Adam could not fit in there either.
He has to have the stage all to himself, he steals the spotlight all the time. Its not that he can't blend in and share the spotlight but he is so natural a performer, he is just born to do this, that he can't help stealing all the attention. Its what I've seen at the Queen concerts where devoted queenies of different ages and genders who kept looking only at Brian & Roger at the beginning could not take their eyes of Adam by the end of the concert. They could not help it.
IMHO whenever Adam had to 'blend in" with the rest of the cast of the musicals he had to suppress a huge part of himself, that spirit he has as a performer. Even then I remember I read some reviews of the musicals, pre-Idol reviews and comments that he was sometimes too much himself and not the character he was supposed to be playing in the musical. I don't think its what Adam did, I just think people could not help but be distracted by the way Adam performed that it distracted them from the character Adam was playing.
cassie
I love reading all your posts. Adam did participate in classical opera competitions while in high school if I remember correctly. There was somewhere a photo of him at a tenor competition.