Vocal Freedom Milestones for Operatic Athletes of the Voice
Chapter 5: Essential tools
What you will find in this course?
Part 1
- Everyone can learn to sing
- Know the elements of the instrument
- Repetition is needed for reliable singing
- Our instrument is not ready-made
- You are the creator of your voice
- Isolate and train the elements of your voice
- You are ambassadors of this art and storytellers
- Recitar cantando of the Camerata de’Bardi: the grandbother of Opera
- Learn basic Italian: the best investment for an opera singer
- The prosody
Part 2
- Open & closed vowels
- Double consonants: longer & stronger
- Sing the consonants, don’t just speak them
- Doubling the consonants to underline a word
- Energized consonants make you understandable
- The purity of the vowelse in te middle range
Part 3
- Modification of the vowels in the higher range
- U position, space in 2 directions: low larynx & high velum
- From vertical to horizontal position
- The magic formula: vowels & well-energized consonants
- Connect your consonants to your breath support system
- Diction: the bridge to our breath support system
Part 4
- The lips
- Isolate your jaw from the diction
- Sing between the notes
- Use your voice as the bow of a violin
- Legato: the endless phonation
- Train on glissandos
- The silent siren
Part 5
- Legato & appoggio
- Staccato & abdominal muscles
- The crying baby: sustain & appoggio in a nutshell
Part 6
- Passaggio: from thick to thin mass
- The tilting
- Suono coperto
- One instrument, many voices
- More muscularity yes; more breath no
- Air flow yes, excess of air no
Part 7
- Less air for higher range
- Retraction
- Maneuver for coloraturas and example
Part 8
- The tongue: the fastest muscle of the body
- The vowel I: the ideal position of the tongue, for from our instrument
- Correcting your diction, will correct your tongue
- The placement of the Italian vowels
- Give yourself time: work little but often
- Creating a new muscular memory
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
