# Why are opera singers fat?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-opera-singers-fat/296669
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 28, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-opera-singers-fat/296669 "2005-03-28T21:16:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-opera-singers-fat/296669/21 "2012-06-07T23:57:20Z")
Moving to Cafe Society.
Note that this thread was started in 2005.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
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### Author:  [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-opera-singers-fat/296669/22 "2012-06-08T00:59:51Z")
[Ambur Braid](http://helenecyr.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/06267_488.jpg).
[Wallis Giunta](http://media.onsugar.com/files/2011/03/09/2/648/6482821/0337b61a1abb24ac_Paschera_M3F4155medres.preview.jpg).
[Philippe Sly](http://www.philippesly.com/www.philippesly.com/Home_files/4551918216_92c28f1ec5_b.jpg).
[Jane Archibald](http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://musicaltorontodotorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/ariane06.jpg&imgrefurl=http://musicaltoronto.org/tag/jane-archibald/&h=433&w=594&sz=81&tbnid=HdJLj5PpgvVGQM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=123&prev=/search%3Fq%3Djane%2Barchibald%2Bimages%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=jane+archibald+images&usg=__i2GeQAmE5ylACg4VOjf28Y_tA5I=&docid=tVfjJ3gKBw4odM&sa=X&ei=tU3RT5qfHcnl6gHUrJn6Ag&ved=0CGIQ9QEwAw&dur=4430).
[Alain Coulombe](http://fabrice.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c372453ef011168517a35970c-800wi).
[Etienne Dupuis](http://www.concoursmontreal.ca/chant2007/pics/%5Bdossier42L%5DJM28MAI-4617.JPG).
[Confirmation bias](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias).
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### Author:  [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-opera-singers-fat/296669/23 "2012-06-08T01:10:44Z")
I’ll add [Corinne Winters](http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2012/6/Departments/Sound_Bites__Corinne_Winters.html) (whom I’m currently singing with in _Carmen_) to **Ministre** ’s excellent list.
In said production there are 9 principals and 29 singers. Of them, only one could be said to be seriously obese and perhaps three or four others who are overweight enough to notice. Everyone else is more or less completely normal.
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-opera-singers-fat/296669/24 "2012-06-08T01:24:38Z")
> [@Colibri](#):
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> Moving to Cafe Society.
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> Note that this thread was started in 2005.
**Colibri** has the power to banish zombies… so noted.
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