Christmas comes but once a year

Announcing the inaugural Christmas season of the Seasons Caroling Co! Ever since I moved back to Gig Harbor, I’ve been pondering the idea of starting a company to offer seasonal music to our community, and this year the pieces came together to make it a reality....
Pirates Redux

Pirates Redux

Exactly one month ago we started staging rehearsals for Pirates of Penzance at Tacoma Opera.  It’s hard to believe that it was only a month ago – the process was so intense that it felt like weeks went by every few days.  Pulling together a...
One Ring to Rule Them All

One Ring to Rule Them All

I have this interesting relationship with opera.  Not having gone through a masters program in voice like many of my opera singing friends, I sometimes feel like an opera ignoramus.  To a large extent, what I’ve learned about opera has come from performing in...
Pirates of Penzance – this fall!

Pirates of Penzance – this fall!

Announcing my solo debut at Tacoma Opera, as Edith in the Pirates of Penzance!  This is one of my favorite operettas – I had the privilege to be in the chorus of the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s production in 2006, and that was when I fell in...

Hey wow, turns out every opera singer is sick RIGHT NOW.

Overheard in an audition waiting room today: “UGH, my voice is so SCRATCHY today.” “It’s really going around, half the cast of the show I’m doing right now is sick.” “I can NOT sing before noon, my sinuses are so junky!”...