Arturo Melocchi teaching Limarilli

The great Melocchi, teacher of Del Monaco, Corelli, and countless others. This is chiaroscuro, fully engaged singing. He teaches him how to properly cover ( I know some people hate that term) by going more towards OO in the passaggio while still trying to keep the integrity of the vowel and chest sound as much as possible. The OO and covering is pulling in proper falsetto muscle coordination into the sound as well as the covering muscles (infrahyoids) keeping the scuro and lengthening of the vocal