The brain works in mysterious ways. When we see parts of a familiar figure, we can recognize it and see the whole of it because the brain will complete the missing parts. Happens all the time. Now I just listened to one of the pieces of music that have touched and moved me the most, […]
Kategorie: Chantez, chantez!
My singing teacher gave me the Habenera from Carmen. World famous and very cool but still there is something myterious about this person. Unfortunately I can’t remember so much of Katharina Herb’s Carmen, who – by the way – published one of my photographs on her website! So I started reading the opera’s story and […]
On evenings like this I find myself transfered into some kind of emotional vacuum. Rehearsal with orchestra, Chichester Psalms and Lobsgesang. I don’t get tired of this amazement… when I push the play button of my CD player it might be that things don’t exist in reality and if they do or did, they are […]
It is pretty much exactly five years ago – it was the time of autumn support singer auditions. I knew I would have to sing there. Sister Anne took me to the French courrier, just before midday prayer. I did the first song but after messing up the canon she said the redeeming words: I […]
Okay, now comes a little tribute to a woman that has brought so much joy to my life over the last weeks (with the help of Mr Rossini I must admit). I’m enthralled by that voice, that face, that expression — I admire the eloquence which brings out the brilliance of this language — I […]
Also der Mezzo-Sopran an sisch… I found another YouTube video that makes me feel a little bit like a burbling semi-idiot. No – I think no mezzo-soprano should convert to tenor, that would just make them less attractive^^ [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJcuqaelqwE] (I think you need to jump to minute 1:15to get to the actual singing. And for […]
We sang Otello tonight, this time finally dressed up neatly and without study stuff on the lap. I had read about the opera’s story a couple of months ago, but the summery had been far to complex to not mix everything up with the plot of some other opera I read right afterwards. A bad […]