Monostatos

Monostatos’s part in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, spoken in German — Act I to Act II, 3 tracks, 4 minutes, 46 lines of text.

Spoken slowly by an opera singer whose mother tongue is the language of the score, one line at a time, with the phonetic transcription underneath. Slow a phrase without changing its pitch, loop the line that will not sit, and read along as the voice moves.