Capucine Chiaudani

Fundamentals for all voice athletes

Chapter 3: Diction, resonances and chiaro-scuro

What you will find in this course?

Segment 1

Diction Creates Your Sound; Prosody & Text; Open & Closed Vowels

Segment 2

Doubling and Singing the Consonants; Diction & Breath Support System; Italian Vowels

Segment 3

Purity of the Vowels; Verticality & U-Position; Focus the Position in the Middle Range

Segment 4

Articulation in the Legato; Emotion through Diction; Isolate the Diction from the Jaw for the Legato

Segment 5

Diction & Resonators; The U-Position; The Pharynx; Chiaroscuro: Perception & Production

Segment 6

Nasal & Oral Sound; the Jaw; The Main Elements of Opera; Elements that Influence Our Resonators

Segment 7

The Vowels’ Circle; Modification of the Vowels: Suono Coperto

Segment 8

Breathe in the Note; Being the Architect of Your Voice; Inhalare la voce and the Inverted Funnel; the ‘shwa’ sound; Knowing What to Do, When, & Why

About Capucine Chiaudani:

Capucine Chiaudani is an internationally acclaimed soprano and vocal coach with years of experience helping singers from all over the world improve their voices. Her teaching focuses on practical, easy-to-understand techniques that deliver real results. 

She performed main dramatic Soprano roles in Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain, Czech Republic, Turkey, Holland, Belgium as: Tosca, Boheme, Forza del destino, Medea, Otello, Fedra, Falstaff, Don Giovanni, Cosi’ fan tutte, ecc.
Collaborations as Guest Professor:

  • Liceu Conservatory Barcelona
  • Frankfurt University of the Arts
  • University of the Arts Bern,
  • Swiss Opernstudio Biel
  • Lyric Opera Studio Weimar
  • Opernakademie Henfenfeld
  • Camerata Bardi Vocal Academy New York
  • Mosf Mediterranean Opera Studio
  • M Institute for the Arts Washington
  • Accademia Europea di Musica Erba (Italy)
  • First world-recording of the Opera Fedra of J.Simon Mayr for Oehms Classics
  • Belgrade Nation al Opera House
  • Klassikwettbewerbasel in Tokyo