The Diction Police Classical Masterclass
Mon May 26, 2025
9:45 am CDT
Erie Room
9:45 am CDT
Erie Room
Classical/Opera
High School
Undergraduate
Young Artist/Emerging Pro
General Information
Practical Diction for Classical Singers
Presenter
Ellen Rissinger
Ellen spent much of her career as an operatic vocal coach throughout Germany. In July 2019, she returned to the US full-time, and is currently Assistant Professor of Opera Coaching and Collaborative Piano at Temple University. She continues to work with opera companies as a language coach and gives masterclasses on lyric diction at universities. She also performs recitals of songs by women composers with soprano Toni Marie Palmertree. Ellen is fluent in German and English, is conversant in Italian, French, Spanish and Modern Greek, and continues to work on her conversational ability in Russian.