Can you manipulate your vocal weight to create a lighter or a more dramatic voice?

Like Whitney Houston, she can control and manipulate her vibrato, like speed it up or slow it down depending on the emotion she wishes to convey. But that's VIBRATO. What about VOCAL WEIGHT?

Are there any singers, esp opera singers, who can manipulate their vocal weight to give that sense of more lyric or more dramatic voice? Like they can make their voice darker and bigger when they sing dramatic pieces, yet they can also make it lighter and sweet-sounding when they do lyrical pieces?

And I don't mean manipulate your vocal weight as in BELTING or PUSHING your voice beyond your natural singing capacity thus creating a strain to your voice (coz it can damage your vocal chord). What I mean is a NATURAL singing voice that is so flexible and versatile that it can change its weight easily without any strain %26amp; flip-flop between the heavy big singing voices to light lyrical voices back %26amp; forth effortlessly.

Could there be such a thing? Are there any opera singers (or any singers, for that matter) who have that sort of quality in their voice?

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It is possible, if you have a huge voice to begin with, to sing quietly. I mean, I've known people who sing opera and also work with children (teaching them children's songs and rhymes) and they don't use their full head resonance to sing in a classroom.

Dietrich Fischer-Diskau

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Fi...

is a renowned lieder singer, which requires great delicacy, but he also sang the role of Wotan in Wagner's 'Das Rheingold'. Not to suggest that Wagner doesn't require delicacy, for of course it does, but it does requires far more power to fill an auditorium than a living room (which was the original venue for lieder singing). Some would perhaps say he didn't have the 'oomph' for Wagner...

Then, of course, there's Bryn Terfel, who sings just about everything under the sun from Opera to Lieder, Art Songs in English, and bits of musicals as well. And he definitely doesn't sound the same singing Wotan as he does singing lullabyes.

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I don't know if Maria Callas could accomplish what you are speaking of, but she certainly could manipulate her voice more than any other opera singer that I have ever heard.

You can check her out on You Tube, in many different types of arias.

Alberich