Happy New Lunar Year, Everyone!

I DID IT!!!

Over 250 audio files in about 40 playlists for more than 30 hours

of Italian Opera libretti and song lyrics,

ruthlessly rattled off

syllable by syllable,

vowel by vowel,

doubling by doubling,

diction rules enunciated and explained!!!

WOHA! 

And it's just the beginning,

for it'll be growing daily, with every working hour.

I hope these enchanting cantilenas will open for you

the worlds they opened for me,

and will make any number in your trunk

sound new as if you'd never heard it before,

as well as incredibly easier to sing, because...

Diction is Music!

For Music was, originally, Diction:

nothing but the portrait of a way to speak: of a cadenza, an accento.

(Listen to the average Italian pianist play Bach to believe: ouch!

Bach definitely conceived his music in and for the German language,

whose articulation is not necessarily immediate to our ever-legato ear.)

By clicking the button below and logging in,

you will access about 2 hours of free audio material.

More than enough to start getting the feel of the Italian prosody and see for yourselves how far from being in its place can be

whatever we usually get the chance to hear around.

The minute your ear will get used to what's right, 

it will find unacceptable and unprofessional what isn't.

These recordings are behind many triumphant role debuts,

successful auditions, riveting reviews

(some received in spite of performances

not performed at 100% of the performer's physical shape -

because that's what this work does, too)

- and I'm sure they're not done doing their job.

I cherish this ever-expanding ARKive and the work that led to it deeply:

it wasn't simple to simplify things the way I learned to do, respecting their incredible complexity, but making them accessible for anybody, anywhere.

That is why, like any other library, this one too can only be visited,

but not downloaded.

Follow the instructions at the bottom of each ARKive page

to access its playlists further, or request new ones.

I hope the CANTARE ITALIANO ARKive will be a faithful friend

and servant for you and your students;

a haunt our community can grow in, and with. 

Health and Wealth,

and much Love to You All,

La Maestra