Guillaume Tell – Sombre forêt

“Sombre forêt” from Rossini’s Guillaume Tell, spoken in French — 3 minutes, 14 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.