This week fuses text, rhythm, and vocal color into triumphant performance. You’ll refine diction, breath, and style, and post a final video for our Oct 1 Showcase.

📅 Daily Assignments

Day 15 – Onsets, Legato, Release

• Check clean onsets and endings; avoid clipped “-ria” endings.

• Prompt: Which word needed the most care for onset or release?
  📌 Cohort Check: Post a phrase with a tricky onset; peers offer one strength + one suggestion.

Day 16 – Vowel Core & Resonance

• Focus on bright Italian [i] and [o] vowels (e.g., Vittoria, mio). Keep them resonant without spreading.

• Prompt: Which vowel was hardest to sustain?
  📌 Cohort Check: Post a sustained vowel clip; peers note if the core stayed consistent.

Day 17 – Derrick Goff Livestream (Wed, Sept 24, 11:00 AM PT)

• Attend the livestream; drop questions in this thread or livestream thread.

• Apply one concrete tip from Derrick in practice.

• Prompt: Which of Derrick’s insights reshaped your approach?
  📌 Cohort Check: Post your “takeaway” and comment on someone else’s.

Day 18 – Phrasing & Rubato

• Experiment with rubato in bold statements (“Vittoria, vittoria”).

• Prompt: Where did rubato make the phrase feel more powerful?
  📌 Cohort Check: Post a rubato clip; peers vote: expressive or too free?

Day 19 – Consonant Clarity & Diction

• Crisp Italian consonants (double tt in “Vittoria”) without breaking line.

• Prompt: Which consonant cluster risked breaking your legato?
  📌 Cohort Check: Start a Consonant Relay—post one tricky cluster, tag a peer to imitate.

Day 20 – Full Run-Through

• Sing once on syllable, once with text. Add dynamics, phrasing, and bold energy.

• Prompt: What one interpretive choice defines your version?
  📌 Cohort Check: Post a clip; peers describe the character of your interpretation in one word.

Day 21 – Performance Video & Reflection

• Record and post your full performance (due Sept 30 for showcase).

• Include 2–3 interpretive choices in your description.

• Prompt: What changed most from Week 1 to now?
  📌 Cohort Check: Watch two peer videos; give one specific strength + one growth suggestion.

🎭 Fun Along the Way (Cohort Edition)

• Two Takes Challenge: Post one version “victorious,” one “pleading.” Peers vote which matches the aria’s spirit best.

• Feedback Chains: After posting, tag two peers for comments—and return the favor.

• Cohort Vote: As a group, vote on whose performance most captured the “triumph” of Vittoria, mio core.

🎥 Performance & Showcase

• Final videos due: Sept 30 (end of day, PT).

• Showcase livestream: Oct 1 — performances featured + winner cohort announced 🎉

📚 Scholarly Lens (Week 3 – Vittoria, mio core)

“In Baroque arias, the singer’s role is both musical and rhetorical: to embody the affect of the text. Clear diction, energized rhythm, and shaped phrases transform repetition into persuasive triumph.”
— Carter, Tim. Understanding Italian Opera. Oxford University Press, 2015.

✨ By the end of Week 3 you will:

• Sing with strong onsets/releases, stable vowels, and clear diction

• Shape phrases with confident breath and expressive rubato

• Convey rhetorical triumph through repetition and dynamics

• Post a polished performance video

• Celebrate at the Oct 1 Showcase with your cohort