Moriarty, one of the standard Italian diction books
used in the US, says that all ending unstressed e's
and o's should be open.
However, Colorni, the other standard, says they should
be closed.
Mike, point from Bergonzi well-taken. However, my
coach screams at me if I don't get the vowels right
(and he works for the opera house). He insists upon
open unstressed.
I have friends who have gone through the Met young
artist program and they both say they were taught to
open the ending unstresseds. Aspen summer festival
taught the same thing. Juilliard teaches closed,
however.
Italian people from the north (like Milan) will close
almost everything. Italian people from Tuscany will
close the ending unstressed vowels. Except that some
regions will open them. Italian people from the south
are impossible to understand no matter what they say.
:)
Isabelle B.
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San Francisco, CA
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