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#OPERAPILLS

pills of vocal and operatic wisdom - enjoy!

#OPERAPILL #1 - How to sing Italian vowels
OPERAPILL #2 - Common mistakes in famous arias ("La Donna è Mobile" tutorial)
OPERAPILL #3 - When NOT to double! 
OPERAPILL #4 - What is the WOR(L)D? (Why a word is a tangible object)
OPERAPILL #5 - "Largo al Factotum" tutorial (how to sing FAST and a lot of words!)
OPERAPILL #6 - La Cavatina as Initiation (when the lyrics tell about vocal technique)
OPERAPILL #7 - Belcanto and The Matrix
(how to enounciate without compromising the sound)
OPERAPILL #8 - Belcanto and Chiaroscuro (closing the finals, shaping the phrases)
OPERAPILL #9 - How to Practice the Lyrics (and perform with little sleep)
OPERAPILL #10: #Falsetto (and diction)
OPERAPILL #11 - The Age of Turandots: Emancipation and Feminism in Opera
OPERAPILL #12: The vowel Æ and the Chinese shadows
OPERAPILL #13: How do I work? A Skype session with tenor Bruce Solomon
OPERAPILL #14: Why breathing in singing is overrated
OPERAPILL #15 - How the diction makes the character: a session with Jennifer Rowley
OPERAPILL #16 - Lo Stato dell'Opera
OPERAPILL #17 - Una Canzone è Rivoluzione
OPERAPILL #18 - Come sync under my Umbrella
OPERAPILL #19 - Ehi camerier! Where's my Milky Way?
OPERAPILL #20 - Singende Steine: "Perché non parli?"
OPERAPILL #21 - Non local vowels
OPERAPILL #22 - Singing NEAPOLITAN!
OPERAPILL #23 - Diction and Ornaments (aitches are BAITCHES!)
OPERAPILL #24 - Ad ogni EMOZIONE la sua DIZIONE
OPERAPILL #25 - How emotions affect diction (and viceversa)
OPERAPILL #26 - Puccini the feminist
OPERAPILL #27 - The State of the Opera(s)
OPERAPILL #28 - Batti, batti, o battimento
OPERAPILL #29 - Mimì, Giacomo & Jesus ("Permesso, scusi.. mi s'è spento il lume")
OPERAPILL #30 - The emperor has no clothes (yet we pay for them)
OPERAPILL #31 - Genealogia del linguaggio
OPERAPILL #32 - Leonora says Manrico is so HOT she may die
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