{"id":71176,"date":"2021-05-26T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=71176"},"modified":"2021-05-26T18:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:00:14","slug":"coffee-break-ethiopian-israeli-singer-eden-alene-hits-highest-note-ever-sung-eurovision-song-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/05\/26\/coffee-break-ethiopian-israeli-singer-eden-alene-hits-highest-note-ever-sung-eurovision-song-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"COFFEE BREAK | Ethiopian-Israeli Singer Eden Alene Hits The Highest Note Ever Sung At The Eurovision Song Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71177\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/Eden_Alene_Eurovision_2021.jpg\" alt=\"Eden Alene\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eden Alene, Israel, Second Rehearsal, Rotterdam Ahoy, May 12, 2021 (Photo: EBU \/ ANDRES)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ethiopian-Israeli pop singer Eden Alene hit an incredible B6 during the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021.<\/p>\n<p>That high note surpassed a previous Eurovision record held previously by Croatian singer Maja Blagdan, whose song included a G6 in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>The 65th iteration of the contest was held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and wrapped up on May 22, 2021. The competition between 26 countries returned to a live stage for the first time since 2019, after being cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Italy won the competition for the first time since 1990 with rock band Maneskin. The Israeli contingent did not place in the top ten, although they were spared the fate of the UK, which placed last with zero points.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Alene was born to Ethiopian-Jewish \u00e9migr\u00e9s in Jerusalem. She won the Israeli TV show contest <em>Rising Star<\/em> in 2020, the winner of which becomes the nation&#8217;s Eurovision representative. In 2018, she also won the Israeli version of <em>X Factor.<\/em> The pop singer has released two singles in Israel so far.<\/p>\n<p>You can check it out in the video. She hits the B6 at about the 2:54 mark.<\/p>\n<p>Eden Alene sings \u201cSet Me Free\u201d (Music &amp; Lyrics: Amit Mordechay, Ido Netzer, Noam Zlatin, Ron Carmi)<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/26Gn0Xqk9k4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<h3><strong>A History Of High Notes<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Middle C is C4, meaning Alene&#8217;s high note was nearly three octaves above it. At that range, the sounds are called whistle tones.<\/li>\n<li>A typical range for a soprano is considered to be about C4 to C6, although a coloratura soprano may reach as high as F6.<\/li>\n<li>In comparison to Alene\u2019s B6, the highest note in the classical opera repertoire, up until recently, was the F6 from the Queen of the Night aria, \u201cDer H\u00f6lle Rache\u201d in Mozart\u2019s opera <em>The Magic Flute<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>In 2017, British composer Thomas Ad\u00e8s included an A6 in his opera <em>The Exterminating Angel,\u00a0<\/em>making it the highest note in opera repertoire.<\/li>\n<li>Coloratura soprano Audrey Luna sang the A6 in Ad\u00e8s\u2019 opera in 2017, setting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/11\/10\/563224351\/soprano-aubrey-luna-makes-history-at-new-yorks-metropolitan-opera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">record for the highest note<\/a> ever sung on the Metropolitan Opera stage.<\/li>\n<li>In pop music, singer Mariah Carey set a record with a G7 in her song \u201cEmotions\u201d, but that was surpassed by in 2004 by Brazilian singer Georgia Brown, who sang an incredible G10 on record.<\/li>\n<li>A G10 is technically not even a musical note anymore \u2014 it\u2019s a frequency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian-Israeli pop singer Eden Alene hit an incredible B6 during the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":71177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38476,11,4932,17,56],"tags":[39687,39688],"yst_prominent_words":[23565,14341,13474,21150,13303,6886,17956,7759,11033,13014],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/Eden_Alene_Eurovision_2021.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-iw0","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71179,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71176\/revisions\/71179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71176"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=71176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}