Bel canto singing, with Jamie Caporizo (episode 14)
Mezzo soprano singer and pastoral musician Jamie Caporizo visits the pod to share something a little different: a research hole she would like to go down, but hasn’t started the research part yet. On the way, she teaches us plenty of other things, including the age when a female’s voice fully matures, what the Bel canto style of singing is, and a little bit about Leider. Take a drink every time Jamie says “another research hole” if you want to get tanked.
I was really torn between featuring a Sister Act pic or a pic of some opera divas… and I decided the former would be disrespectful, so I went the opera diva route. Pulled from a google search of “Cosi fan tutte,” the photo features Isabel Leonard as Dorabella (left) and Miah Persson as Fiordiligi. Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera.
SHOW NOTES:
The Singer’s Ego: Finding Balance Between Music and Life is a book by professional singer Lynn Eustis about the “psychological conflicts that make up a singer’s world.”
Did you know that sisters and nuns are not the same thing? According to the website Simply Catholic, a nun typically spends her life in prayer and work and silence in a cloistered convent, while a sister may or may not live in community, and lives an active life typically serving in health care or educational institutions.
Sisters of the Holy Cross is a Catholic congregation of religious sisters that Jamie worked with as a choir director in South Bend, Indiana. Ministry is an important part of their mission. They also acknowledge and speak out against modern racism, have publicly disavowed some of Trump’s refugee policies, and aim to combat climate change. You can read their statements on various issues on their website.
Jamie is still working with sisters in her role as the Senior Director of Mission and Ministry at Alvernia University. You can read the story of how the Bernadine Franciscan Sisters wound up in Reading on the Alvernia U website.
In my vague attempt to explain the concept of scaffolding in education, I only managed to explain a small part of it. Upeople.edu has a broader breakdown of the concept in their article What is scaffolding in education?
According to Brittanica, Frauenliebe und-leben (German for “Woman’s Love and Life”) song cycle by Robert Schumann, written in 1840, with text by the French-born German poet Adelbert von Chamisso. The text of the songs is written from a woman’s perspective. The text of the songs is written from a woman’s perspective, and all of Schumann’s songs for this cycle were written for the female voice.
From Jamie’s “Love in Stages” concert, that will soon also be a recording: Here are some links to performances of the songs Jamie mentioned:
Frauenliebe und-leben:
“If I Were a Bell” from Guys and Dolls:
“What I Did for Love” from A Chorus Line:
The song Jamie sang on the episode was “E amore un ladroncello” from Cosi fan tutte. Visit JamieCaporizo.com to listen to more recordings of her gorgeous voice!