Roy Orbinson
I think that his lack of mouth opening adds some nasality to the sound, but not in a bad way at all. It's a great sound and stylistically appropriate. When I imagine making a similar sound, I think I would find it by humming or singing those notes on a whiny [ŋ] and then opening up so that it vibrated in my mouth as well as my nasal cavities. He also can make those sounds because he has a mic. I don't know that they necessarily would carry over an orchestra in an opera hall for instance.
Judy Collins
Like Roy Orbinson she doesn't really open her mouth too much, and like Roy I think this is partly because she's singing a style that uses a microphone. In this song she gets a more speech-like sound than what you would hear on an opera stage and that sound doesn't necessarily require your mouth to open as much,
Ivan Kozlovsky
Wow. I didn't even realize he was the one singing at first. It looks like he's tilting his head up slightly as he sings, I wonder if that has anything to do with getting more opening at the top of the throat to compensate for the lack of space at the lips? Some of his vowels do sound a little bit wide maybe? But it's hard to tell since I've never heard the song and don't what the vowels should be.
Piotr Beczala
He looks like he's pushing his jaw open in some spots-- especially when he has a consonant that requires his lips to be together such as [m] or [p] or a back vowel. I think he could find less movement in his jaw, and more release as a result, and just as good of a sound if he didn't push his jaw open so much in these situations. Maybe his back vowels are too far back? It would be so interesting to experiment with his technique in this area and see what difference it would make in his sound, which is really wonderful.
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