Rare Earth

Rare Earth

The page is turning from summer to fall.  Every year I look forward to the crisp autumn mornings and the return of the rain.  But especially so for me this year, since summer has been a challenging one, full of highs and lows… both for me and for this...

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!”...

Pagliacci and Summer Redux

Well, there went my new year’s resolution to actually start blogging regularly!  Pagliacci was a lot of fun, but unfortunately I fell ill during the run and had to miss the last show (and the cast party, horrors!).  I got hit pretty hard with a flu-like virus...

Pagliacci at Tacoma Opera

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...