Having you recently been cited for an idiomatic violation by voicing that bilabial fricative in the wrong place? A new podcast might be able to help.
The Diction Police is the brainchild of Dresden-based vocal coach
Ellen Rissinger. The Diction Police's goal:
...to enhance singers’ study of diction by hearing the text of songs and arias spoken by native speakers, to give a broad range of opinions from native speakers on their own language, and to give singers practical tools for practicing and learning foreign languages.
A noble cause indeed. Here are DP's podcasts to date:
- Episode 1: Heidenröslein and Der Gärtner with Nadja Mchantaf and Hans Sotin.
- Episode 2: Italian art songs and a discussion with Fabio Centanni.
- Episode 3: three Zauberflöte arias and a discussion of [ä], [r], and the German schwa.
- Episode 4: Gretchen am Spinnrade with Netta Or, Die Post with Markus Marquardt, and a discussion with Hans Sotin.
- Episode 5: Nathalie de Montmollin on Fauré and an interview with Philip Shepard
- Episode 6: Offenbach and Schumann with Stephanie Atanasov and Markus Marquardt, and diphthongs with Markus Henn.
