Vocal Freedom Milestones for Operatic Athletes of the Voice
Chapter 6: Recitative Workshop
What you will find in this course?
Part 1
- Recitar cantando: the grandmother of Opera
- Be a good communicator; deliver a story
- Diction creates your sound, it does not decorate your sound
- Diction: milestone of vocal technique
- In Italian Belcanto: 5 pure vowels, open and closed vowels, sounds
- Open and closed vowels
- The schwa vowel sound
- The prosody
- You can reproduce only the sounds you have cloned
- The vowels watch
Part 2
- Let’s practice open and closed vowels
- Isolate the jaw from the articulation
- Articulation is more internal than external
- Do not over-articulate
- The importance of grace
- Make smooth transitions between vowels
- The importance of prosody
Part 3
- The inverted funnel
- Isolate the jaw and the articulation of consonants
- Legato: the artistry of reprogramming your muscular memory
- Be understandable in the middle range
- The priority of the intelligibility of the text
- Go smoothly from one sound to the other
- Find the golden balance
Part 4
- Diction & resonance cavities go hand in hand
- The consonants: the schwa
- Consonants are the fuel of the vowels
- Diction & breath support system: the bridge
- The impact of diction on the breath support system
Part 5
- Work in progress on the Recitativo:
- E Susanna non vien (Contessa – Le Nozze di Figaro)
Part 5
- Work in progress on the Recitativo:
In eccessi, o numi (Donna Elvira – Don Giovanni) - Learn how to study
- Summary of what we learned
- Vocalize with the / vowel, the best position
- Learning needs repetition
- Legato & diction: long vowels & energized consonants
- Belcanto & text go hand in hand
- Connect to the audience through the text
- Become a good communicator
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
