Arkel

Arkel’s part in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, spoken in French — Acts I, IV and V, 3 tracks, 11 minutes, 175 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.