Opera Expressive Technique (1 Viewer)

[bjw22]

1 day till the exam everyone!!

I’m just wondering what this expressive technique is actually called – the rolly thing he does with the lyrics?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE6SRBnDHx8
1:36-1:39 “opera is there” is there a proper name for this?
A similar thing in the extract 0:39-0:43:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mbg4lm2olo&feature=youtu.be

 

[boredofstudiesuser1]

Hmmm...
I thought this would be a melisma (where they change the pitch of the note whilst staying on the same syllable), but I'm not really hearing this rolly thing you're talking about...
In the second extract I can hear that she's rolling her Rs, and swooping up or down, which I wouldn't refer to as melismas - I guess I would call it "vocal scooping".
But in the first extract, he's really not straying from the monosyllabic pitch and it's just a really well defined descending scale. I do hear some "vibrato" at 1:36, so that might be what you're referring to?

Hope this helped.