Italian Diction Coaching

Whether you are preparing your first role in Italian, or an art song for an audition, working on Italian diction will help you better understand the nuances of the language. Your ability to enounce the lyrics will improve, allowing you to relate with your character and express yourself more authentically.

During our coaching session, we will work on every challenge of the text, clarifying the articulation of those sounds that characterize the language. Your Italian will sound smoother and more legato, and you will immediately gain ease while singing.

As an opera singer myself, I understand the needs of the singing voice, and I will share with you all the tricks to achieve perfect Italian diction.

New to Italian repertoire?

Let’s work on the specific sounds of the language, clarifying how to articulate the words.

Familiar With The Repertoire?

We will work on your phrasing and how to improve your legato.

Experienced With Italian?

Take your Italian to the next level, learning its nuances and how to use them to be more expressive.

Schedule your online session now and start mastering your Italian!

Recordings

Video + IPA

I offer videos with IPA transcriptions of several arias and art songs. In each video I present a normal pace enunciation, to hear the speech patterns and inflection of the language, and a slow pace enunciation, to elongate each syllable, helping you hear how each sound is articulated. 

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Audio

Recordings of roles, dialogues, arias, art songs, and song cycles are available upon request. You will receive an audio file that can be used to prepare for your next audition or performance.
Each recording includes a normal pace reading, to hear the speech patterns and inflection of the language, and a slow pace reading, to elongate each syllable, helping you hear how each sound is articulated.

Presenting a guest lecture at University of California - Riverside

Masterclass & Lectures

If you are a voice teacher and would like to offer your students an immersion in Italian repertoire and Italian diction, I am available for lectures and/or masterclasses. Contact me to know more about the different formats offered.
During my masterclass, I usually cover  such topics as:

  • Italian Vowel Sounds

  • Closing and Opening of e and o

  • Single and Double Consonants

  • Prepalatal Consonants [ɲ] and [ʎ]

  • Italian Legato

  • Assimilation of n

  • Phrasal Doubling