An indispensable guide for modern singers, this rare resource offers exercises and instructions for attaining the absolute breath control, vocal sheen, evenness of tone, agility, and elegance of the 18th-century Italian vocal technique. Includes studies for scales, turns and trills, vocalises, solfeggio studies, more. Damorea was the famous French soprano who created at the Paris Opera (1825-35) the principal roles in Rossini's 'Le siege de Corinthe', 'Moise, Le Comte Ory' and Guillaume Tell and in Auber's 'La muette de Portici', being known for her pure tone and stylish ornamentation.