Oh yes...those muscles are really important. And definitely proves my point that the voice does NOT come from the vocal cords but from the entire body. I admire your daughter for keeping at it and restoring her strength!
The high note in Mozart’s “Revenge of the Queen of the Night” is an “F” ABOVE high “C”...a real Killer! I don’t know what the “Alleluia note is, but it is probably the same.
I am sorry that she feels the need to “duck the question”. To have gotten her voice back after such a trauma to her singing muscles is a righteous achievement in itself! She has every right to be proud, even if she can’t hit a high “F”
The Mozart’s Alleluia note is so high that I couldn’t believe that she could go there when I first heard her sing it as a high schooler. I remember gasping and bursting into tears. She’s always laughed and said, “You have to work up to that.” (And you have to keep practicing to keep that note in your repertoire.) The reason she ducks the question whenever I ask is that she knows that I will ask her to sing it if she says “yes” LOL
Mozart steps the Alleluias up and up and up until the singer hits that really high note. Takes your breath away when you hear it.
I remember another time when she was still in high school (she’s 50 now) when she reduced a priest to tears when she sang “Panis Angelicus” after Communion. Afterward he he told her that it had been his mother’s favorite song. But, I still love the Alleluia best.
She teaches a whole school now (K-8) general music and leads all the vocal ensembles. It is challenging to find music that appeals to that age range. The way that the school arranges the schedules she only meets with each class once a week. If there are snow days, holidays, assemblies, etc., interupting the schedule, maybe she doesn’t meet with one, or more, of the groups more than 3 times a semester. Tough.