Naomi Gurt Lind wrote:
> Open-vowel Italian works for me; closed-vowel Italian works for you. > Ultimately the conductor and stage director will have the "right" answers!
And I'd like bring uyp the one area of Italian diction that I'm told makes Italian sound "wrong" to a native speaker: not "stopping" the double consonants (the correct technical term is be welcome).
Of course, I don't know this from my own experience, since I don't speak Italian, but I've heard this criticism often from Italian-speakers about failing to speak the double consonants correctly being the most common Italian diction mistake Americans make. I think if we all were perfect with double consonants, no one would complain about out open/closed e's and o's. (And I find that really hard to do properly, myself.)
Peggy
-- Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA "Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile" mailto:peggyh@i...
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