Mélisande

Mélisande’s part in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, spoken in French — Act I to Act V, 9 tracks, 23 minutes, 361 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.