This week I start rehearsing with Tacoma Opera for the second show of the season, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. Tacoma Opera is presenting a double bill of Pagliacci and Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti – there is no chorus in the latter production so we...
Last weekend I had the last of a series of jazz gigs with Cyrille Gosselin at the new location of The French Bakery in Bellevue. At a French bakery, of course we included some French songs in our set – Cyrille sings most of them, but we also included my jazz...
I’ve had an embarrassing semblance of a website up for at least a year now, with the intent to update it with news and anecdotes and pictures relating to my artistic endeavors – all those things that may be interesting to a very small subset of the...
Last night I woke up to a very strange sound. I could have sworn there was a man somewhere in my house, singing softly to himself. Since my husband is currently away with the army, this was a decidedly strange thing to hear. I sat bolt upright and listened carefully....
The first play I ever did was a community theatre production of Hans Christian Andersen in my hometown. I was five years old, and my role was “Anna,” the smallest girl in the town and the inspiration for Hans’ story of Thumbelina. I got to ad-lib my...
