I'm back from work. At last.
I wonder, how far goes the impossibility to teach an opera singer anything fairly simple.
What's easier than the difference between the two bars:
one - you count 1 eighth of pause, and sing seven.
another - 2 pause, sing 6.
Just count in mind!
1, pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-geno.
1,2, pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-geno.
No, some of them simply must begin pa-pa-ing on the wrong beat and spoil everything.
I felt like this exactly: