Opera Cake's "exi-jesus" is up. I hope you'll stop on by and give it some of your time. Some very thoughtful questions on it. I have my own questions too, and when the production is closed will try to give my own personal take.
And while I'm at it… ok peeps. Stop sniffling and crying onstage!!! You keep doing that, and I am get get crying too. Happened once singing the final Mimi's in Boheme. It was NOT pretty! You will forgive me if I start to hide in the corner and not mingle too much. It gets harder to do this the closer we get to finishing. You figurants are very dear folk. And this is a production that I will never forget.
Happy thoughts happy thoughts happy thoughts!!!!!!!!!!
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One question keeps in my mind ... the days-off ... what are the singers doing ... I work (and can say that I am a bit lost & I miss Parsifal a lot).
But You ?
Do you visit now Brusels & exhibition, other concerts ... etc ...
or do you stay in your hotel-room ?
Are you not bored with the travelling & the hotel-rooms ?
I think it must be a bit difficult (grade depending on each one of you) ... I think you must feel thrilled or even on the other hand ... very lonely !
Servaas
"Happy thoughts", yes, but I can't help thinking about "after" Parsifal. How strange to have lived so many years (no, I won't say how many!) and end up considering there is a life "before" and after" Parsifal.
Andrew, you might end up having to hide in a corner and having a sniffling crowd walking around you! Who knows, the 3rd act might even end up in a pool?
I go to the opera a lot, it has always been part of my life, I love the beauty of voices. It has been a privilege for me to stand close to you and your colleagues and listen to you sing...at certain moments I'm so concentrated on your
singing that I forget to do anything else!!! Badge 64
Dear Andrew,
For me too, there will be a before Parsifal and an after Parsifal. For more than one reason. I have been favored with being initiated to the opera art thanks to a great composer, bewitching music and story, talented singers, a powerful conductor, a sensitive and inspired director, a great and patient choregrapher, etc...
What else could I have asked for!
The closer we come to the end of this wonderful and awesome adventure, the more I bite my lips in the wings in order to not cry... especially when the "female choir" start to sing. This Saturday 20th, I'm not sure that I'll be as brave as I'm trying to be right now ... because then we will all be aware that it is really the end...
I have also one question for you:
How does your family cope with you being outside so often? How do you cope with it? Aren't you sometimes torn apart between living your dream/passion and living with your wife and your sons?
Nathalie
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