Capucine Chiaudani

Vocal Freedom Milestones for Operatic Athletes of the Voice

Chapter 3: Resonators & much more

What you will find in this course?

Part 1

  • Athletes of the voice
  • 2 vocal folds, many voices
  • Our instrument is not ready
  • We are the creator of our sound
  • The elements of the operatic sound
  • 2 energies: sustain & appoggio

Part 2

  • Our resonators
  • Feeling and not only hearing the voice
  • Becoming conscious singers
  • Positions of the larynx
  • We can modify our resonance cavities
  • Neck support and resonators

Part 3

  • Aryepiglottic sphincter & squillo
  • The Chiaro-scuro recipe
  • The importance of awareness
  • The tongue: the leopard of the body
  • Vocalizing with I
  • The mouth: what, when

Part 4

  • The forgotten lips
  • Maneuvers to feel the velum
  • The velum: the door between mouth & nose
  • Oral & nasal sound
  • The jaw
  • The diction
  • Every voice is unique
  • Find the best version of yourself
  • The U position

Part 5

  • The lips: our megaphone
  • Lift up your velum in the passaggio
  • Tilting
  • Neck support & high velum
  • Stay in your instrument
  • Inalare la voce
  • Training & expertise

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