Random...

So what's been happening lately?

Well, Falstaff is well and truly over, which is both good and bad. Good because my life is a little less hectic; bad because it was loads of fun and i miss the cast and crew already! Little parts of the music keep getting stuck in my head and run around in there for hours, very maddening!

Having Keith Lewis (a tenor based in London) here at the moment has also been very interesting and more than a little inspiring. His recital on Sunday was spectacular, especially his lieder interpretation which i just adored, and I am so looking forward to Sat night's Beethoven 9, although i do have reservations about the sinfonia! Hopefully they will prove me wrong!

I don't think i've ever been quite as obsessed by singing as I am this year. The realization that Claire, Fiona, Michael and I are actually doing Hons and everybody else is looking up to us to set a certain standard is a strange feeling. The only downside to all my hard work is vocal exhaustion, which showed itself spectacularly at Monday's masterclass.. hurrah :p As a result I've had to take a couple of days off singing and feel myself becoming increasingly twitchy... Things had better be back to normal tomorrow or I shall be a very unahppy soprano indeed.

In other news, my job with ITS is faaantaaastic and i love them to pieces. I've honestly never had such an awesome job. I am soo feeling the love right now.

Three weeks til Carmen rehearsals start... that will certainly be rather different to Falstaff, considering the chorus alone is four times the size of our entire cast for the former!

Anyway yes, i do have lots of music to learn, Mozart, Barber, Mahler, Ross Harris, Gounod and maybe (fingers crossed) Verdi! :D

Edit: Claire says she is too short for anyone to actually look up to her...