The Jupiter Vocal Lab
Vocal Liberty
There is no good reason women and transmasculine people can't perform operatically in the chest voice. We see what our industry has done for countertenors, and we are heading to the corresponding mountaintop, where the sound of freedom is a booming tenor from a T-free body.
Roles That Fit
Beyond Cherubino, we are reimagining fachs and characters to create a wider range of expressive opportunities for all singers who want to sing outside the binary. Welcome to masc soprano roles, femme baritone characters, and operatic nonbinary sounds you can't yet imagine.
Asking the Questions
Why are all the feminine roles for treble singers? What makes a melody masculine or feminine? How can you safely extend your lower range as a lifelong soprano? You don't get good answers to questions like these in the vocal studio: that's lab work.
From the Vocal Lab: Songs for New Tenors
Coming Soon...
Our current roster of scores in development contains several roles, comic as well as dramatic, for chest-voice newcomers.
We're also working with performers and composers to create concepts for "skirt roles" (traditional chest-voice performers portraying women onstage), more robust "trouser" roles for manly soprano/mezzo characters, and wibbly-wobbly nonbinary characters whose use of registers underscores our understanding of the voice as a spectrum.