The third song that I am reviewing is L’ultima canzone performed by Angelo Goffredi.

The

clarity of this performance is okay. The singer was doing well, it was a YouTube video though

and the recording quality is the primary issue. This audio quality did not distort his diction

however, so I thought he would be a good candidate to observe.

The first verse was sang well, except for the second line. The second line got rather

muddied around the word “ancor” he gets back to relative clarity by the end of the line though.

In the first verse there was a variety of diction rules exhibited. There was a glide in the word

“Piani.” There was a diphthong in the word “nei.” There also were examples of both closed and

open e. The performer navigated all of these with confidence and relative ease. He was

accurate with his placement from what I could tell with from the video.

In the second verse these trends continued mostly, the performer did well throughout

this verse as well. The performer exhibited a fairly decent example of a gli glide in the first word

of the second verse “Foglia.” Later in the verse he sang the word “io,” I think that this particular

diphthong could have made the second vowel slightly shorter, so it truly sounds like a

diphthong. Other than that the second verse sounded great.

In the third verse the performer did his best work with the diction in my opinion. He had

clear consonants and vowels. He had a clear distinction between the closed e and open e. He

also had a few voiced Gs that he correctly performed.

The last verse is very similar to the second verse, with a few words replaced. On the same

words he performed them nearly the same which is good since he is consistent with his diction.
With the new words he also performed correctly like the word “che” he ignored the h had a

hard c and had the word correctly placed.

Overall, I think that this performer did wonderfully on his diction. He may not have been

Pavarotti, but he definitely knew what he was doing and was confident in himself. As I

mentioned earlier he was consistent throughout with the same words which is good, being

inconsistent without yourself can show poorly on many aspects of your singing. While the

recording quality was subpar I think that the performer rose above that and still impressed me

with the odds slightly stacked against him.