Capucine Chiaudani

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