Leïla

Leïla’s part in Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles, spoken in French — Act I to Act III, 8 tracks, 19 minutes, 225 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.