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
