Ariana Grande had just revealed that she had started to train with an actor and vocal coach of the months before her first Wicked hearing.
The 31 -year -old singer and actress, who played the role of Glinda The Good Witch in the adaptation in two parts of the Broadway Classic, said that she wanted “every tool of my sharp and ready box” before she applied.
In a conversation with Australia WHO The big magazine said: “Well, I worked with my interim coach, Nancy Banks, who is absolutely great. And this work we were doing even started well before my first hearing because I just wanted to be prepared, no matter what was going to be asked for me.”
THE Thank you, then Crooner continued: “I wanted all the tools in my box to sharpened and ready. And it was really a lot of reading between the lines. Why is it so fascinated by Elphaba? What is the magic that she has what Glinda does not have? And what is not on the page?”
Then as she discussed how WickedThe classic style song was very different from her acute pop voice, she explained: “I started working with my vocal coach, Eric Vetro, two and a half, three months before my first hearing just because the vocal cords, like any other muscle in the body, they are usual. You have to train them to do new things.”
THE 7 Rings Hitmaker then noted: “I naturally have a high range, and I sing whistling tones and I sing high notes, but it’s very different to sing Coloratura Soprano – a classic, the opera.”
“I wanted to train my voice as much as possible so that when my first hearing has arrived, it seemed authentic and warm and full and really, like, which is required by Glinda. The many beautiful actresses who played this role before me, you know, they all concluded a classic soprano.
