Vocal Freedom Milestones for Operatic Athletes of the Voice
Chapter 1: Diction Diction Diction
What you will find in this course?
Part 1
- Be a good communicator
- You can reproduce only the sounds your brain knows
- Learn basic Italian & the Italian prosody
- Listen to good Italian singers
Part 2
- Good diction will connect you to your breath support system
- Work on glissandos
- Work on the text before singing it
- The pure vowels of the Italian language
- Italian: the blessed language for singing
Part 3
- 7 vowels in 1 tube
- Open & closed vowels
- Articulate consonants to be understandable
- Vertical position: low larynx & high velum
- Adjusting the inner space to the range
- Sing all singable consonants
- Fill the space between the notes
- Double consonants
Part 4
- Doubling consonants which are not naturally double
- The emotional language
- Understand what you are saying
- Learning process: how to learn better & faster the text
- Say the text before singing it
- Modification of the vowels in the upper range
Part 5
- Focus the position in the middle range
- Distributing the inner space
- Economic singing
- Work with glissandos
- The lips
- Ambassadors of this art
- Technique at the service of the text
- Be meaningful, make the difference
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
