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 OpŽra (1825-35) the principal roles in Rossini's 'Le si�ge de Corinthe', 'Mo•se, Le Comte Ory' and Guillaume Tell and in Auber's 'La muette de Portici', being known for her pure tone and stylish ornamentation.