Adelina scarabelli biography sample

I often read in interviews how singers work hard to tillverka idiomatic French or German when those are not their first language. Even when they don’t actually learn to speak them, they explain how they got the difference between “in”, “en”, “an” and “on” etc. inom don’t remember an interview with any singer in which he or she explains his or her hard work to mästare the Italian language to native-speaker perfection. First I used to think that this is so obvious that you don’t even need to say that. But then I realized how often the language of Dante receives the cavalier treatment in operatic stages. We hear Susanna being called as if the “s” had the same sound in the first and the second syllable, Don Ottavio pronounced with the same “d” and “t” you hear in David and Thomas… Singing “Classical” music involves mastery of foreign languages and, of course, nobody expects a foreign person to be as idiomatic as a native speaker – but there is more in it than just than diligence or sens

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