CARMEN Habanera : L' amour est un oiseau rebelle ; French diction, translation + score animation

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[@laurabernay]

This is using the French gutteral 'r' pronunciation. Be aware that in sung French the 'r' should be flicked using tongue and not the throat. It’s different.

[@frenchlyric2767]

Right ! Exactly what I wrote 😉 « For the french [r] : you can flip it (just one flip, don’t make a heavy roll), especially for classical singing. I suggest this choice because it’s historically correct, more understandable, and because it’s easier. Here I used the french spoken [r], so you can hear what it sounds like from a native. »

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[@patrickpowero.n.z.m2773]

Very useful,but the [r] sometimes slips back from the forward Diction lyrique position to the good speech velar position.

[@frenchlyric2767]

Thanks for your smart attention ! Yes, I made it on purpose : « For the french [r] : you can flip it (just one flip, don’t make a heavy roll), especially for classical singing. I suggest this choice because it’s historically correct, more understandable, and because it’s easier. Here I used the french spoken [r], so you can hear what it sounds like from a native. » Website @t Anyway, nobody is perfect and I may make one « r » the other way sometimes… Choose yours !

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[@frankG335]

@@frenchlyric2767 Good Lord, this is a resource that is priceless for singers! Thank you, thank you, thank you for your help! We should be paying you hundreds if dollars like we pay our vocal coaches, only to be castigated for not knowing it. Sheesh. I'm certainly not going to quibble!

[@kaylasky6456]

Of all performances, do you think there is a person who sang it best?

[@florenceschiffer]

Hello ! Thank you for asking. Please read the comments below and conversation with Alphaz UTN.

[@deboluccia]

Where are you from?

[@florenceschiffer]

Hi ! I’m from Anjou / Val de Loire, now living in Paris. Thanks for writing and listening !

[@alphazutn1274]

Was the opera ever sung by a native French speaker? Is there a recording? It's fitting that Carmen be played by a French woman.

[@florenceschiffer]

Excellent question ! Without any judgment about their performance : Beatrice Uria-Monzon, Clémentine Margaine, Nora Gubisch, for example. But nowadays it’s not always very easy to understand the words. Callas did it perfectly (her french was perfect), and understandable. (Ninon Vallin, Solange Michel for old recordings, and maybe others…) I’m afraid, very often french people are good at singing when… their parents came from other countries 🤣😭

[@alphazutn1274]

@@florenceschiffer Thank you for your amazing response!

[@alphazutn1274]

@@florenceschiffer Pardon me, but I think I misunderstood something about French here, isn't the R supposed to be like a gh rather than like an English R? Did Bizet intend the pronunciation of the R to be English-like? I just went briefly over the names you mentioned and all of them pronounce it like an English R.

[@florenceschiffer]

@@alphazutn1274 You are right, French "R" is closer to the velar consonant /g/ than it is to English "R". French spoken R is, well… as I do in this video 😉 When one sings, sometimes it does go backwards like an English R …? It depends on the vocal technique, but it should not sound English. It is not very sonorous, though. In the XIX, both for theatre and opera, the R was rolled (~ in Italian ou Russian) : it’s historically correct, it’s easier to produce that way if you’re not french, and more sonorous. This is definitely a choice to do, then 😁… with the other singers, the conductor or the stage director. 🧚

[@alphazutn1274]

@@florenceschiffer Very well. Thank you so much for your valuable time.