Episode 27

Happy 2011! We're starting back up again with a discussion of "Un'aura amorosa" and "De' miei bollenti spiriti" with tenor Giorgio Berrugi. We concentrate on some common suffixes with stressed o (-oro, -ore and -oso), intervocalic S and using consonants to create expression. Here are links to the libretti for Così fan tutte (scroll down to Aria No. 17) and La Traviata (scroll down to the opening of Act II). Just for the sake of clarity, on this episode we translated the word "esca" as "hook", but I double-checked this with my Harpers Collins Sansoni dictionary and the definition there is "bait, enticement". The language lesson website I mention in Episode 27 is Verbal Planet. There you can set up online Skype lessons with teachers from all over the world at your convenience. Please feel free to contact me here, on the Facebook page or directly at ellen@ellenrissinger.com with any questions or comments!