Vocal Freedom Milestones for Operatic Athletes of the Voice
Chapter 4: Breath: our friend or our enemy?
What you will find in this course?
Part 1
- Voice is a muscular product
- Learn to isolate the elements of your voice
- Aim for economic, healthy, reliable singing
- Do not over breathe
- Breath and muscularity
- Excess of air triggers constriction
- Retraction
- How little breath do we need?
- Singing on the air, not with the air
- Breath just enough
Part 2
- Be well aligned: and why
- Create space before you inhale
- Suspension: be ready
- Become a conscious singer
- The hierarchy of singing
- Voice-body connection
- Resisting the air
- Take care of the folds closure
- Silent siren
Part 3
- Responsible and responsive breathing & adduction
- Position of the mouth depending on the range
- Understand what to do when
- What is breath support
- What do we support: how & why
- Singing in the inhaling gesture
- Become a good breath manager
- Breath control through muscles of the torso
- The back: the 6th gear
Part 4
- Maneuvers to feel the back support
- Adduction and compression
- Neck & back: the wall of Enrico Caruso
- Big muscles help little muscles
- Appoggio: sit on your saddle
- Impact of the back support on the sound
- Create a new muscular beahvior
Part 5
- Fricative consonants & breath support system
- Exercises
- Less breath, more muscolarity
- Problems & solutions
- The real space is more inside then outside
Part 6
- Diction has on impact on our breath
- Articulate well the consonants
- Don’t push air, resist the air
- Vocalize also with consonants
- Sing the consononants, don’t speak them
- Feel your voice
- How little breath is enough?
- Prepare yourself: Alignment & inner space
- 2 energies: Sustain & Appoggio
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
