I nearly gave up on my voice before I understood it.
For years I performed and pushed through, frustrated by its unpredictability, unable to get satisfying answers from teachers I otherwise trusted. Eventually I stopped waiting for someone to explain it and went back to learn the science myself. I emerged as a qualified speech pathologist with a specialisation in voice. Something shifted. Not just in how my voice functioned, but in my relationship to it. In what I believed it was for.
That is the question Resonant Lab keeps returning to. Not only how the voice works, but what it carries. What it has been asked to conceal. What it might say, in whatever form it needs to take, if given the right conditions and enough permission.
The work here spans singing and performance, accent and pronunciation, voice and identity. The through line in all of it is the same: your voice should feel like yours.
Cristina Russo
I have performed with Opera Australia, Victorian Opera, State Opera of South Australia, and Glyndebourne Opera. I have won awards for my vocals on film and television, including Netflix productions Babylon Berlin and Messiah.
I hold a Master of Music in Opera Performance and a Master of Speech Pathology, and I am a certified practising member of Speech Pathology Australia. You can read my full bio and hear my music at cristinarusso.net.
But the credential that matters most to me is the one that cannot be listed: I know what it is to be estranged from your own voice, and I know what it feels like when that estrangement ends.