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 […]
Kategorie: Hot Mezzos in Pants
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 […]
„Was haben die eigentlich immer mit den Jungfrauen?! Frauen, denen man nicht mehr das Kellerfenster einrennen kann, sind offenbar wertlos…“ Nachdem wir bei ticketonline.com für die „Print@home“-Funktion 2,50 Euro Porto zahlen mussten, waren wir letzte Woche endlich stolze Besitzer von Karten für Katharina Herbs neues Programm 400 Jahre Sex in der Oper. Nach unzähligen Stunden […]
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 […]
wie der singen lernen kann… Ich versuche mich mit Gretel gerade am Anfang der Hänsel und Gretel-Oper. Ich bin da ja ein bisschen traumatisiert. In der Grundschule haben wir das Doppelte Lottchen gelesen und dann auch diesen alten Schwarz-Weiß-Film dazu gesehen. Der Lottchen Papa ist Dirigent und das brave Lottchen muss dann mit seiner neuen […]
I’m either the girl who doesn’t get the guy, or I am the guy, and that’s fine with me. — Marilyn Horne, explaining the function of the mezzo-soprano.