@hannu_ikonen @clive opera singers are often considered canaries in the coal mine

It takes a lot of resources to keep us together and then in times of scarcity, the singers desperate to sing Will go through anything to do it.

But, throughout the last 150 years there has been a definite measurable decline in the capacity of singers

If you have heard of Ethel merman, an old vaudevillian whose name escapes me, but whose voice dwarfed merman said that voices were declining 'because of the bombs'