Gertrude

Gertrude’s part in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, spoken in French — 33 seconds, 6 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.