On Mar 19, 2004, at 9:19 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Mozart asks the singers to sing "-o e il" on a single note. The note is a long one, but you will never hear a singer divide it in three; rather, it usually comes out "Quest' e 'l fin" or "Questw'il fin"
You're right that it usually comes out as one or the other, but I'd argue that the first singer got it right and the second got it wrong. To turn an "o" into a "w" is distinctly anglophone.
I should add the caveat that I'm familiar with opera and art song singing from roughly 1750 to the present. If conventions were different before then, I might not know it.
mdl
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