HUGE, GINORMOUS NEWS!
OK so I don't know what to do with myself right now because I'm so excited!
I'm at work, minding my own business when my cell phone rings. I reach over and look at the number and think, I dont know this number...and it's been my policy not to answer often because I don't like wasting my daytime min, esp when it's a bullshit call. However, today is the day that I usually head into the city for my voice lesson. Unfortunately, the stupid strike is causing major problems with that...so while I didnt recognize the number it was a (212) so I thought what if my teacher is trying to contact me....so against my usual judgement, I answered the phone and boy was that a surprise.
On the other end of the line was a gentlemen who is the director of the New York Opera Forum, which I auditioned for many months ago. I am being cast as Gilda in their 2006 performance of Verdi's Rigoletto! Needless to say I did not see that coming. Honestly, when he first heard me, he felt that my voice was too big, and heavy for the role. He told me that he spoke w/ various people and they told him that he's listening wrong! lol He also said he's sure I'm going to prove him wrong, and has no doubts I can do it because I'm a student of the voice teacher I'm currently with.
Now I'm not saying all of that to gloat. I honestly feel quite humbled from this whole thing. I've been singing w/ - /for my teacher and other students in her studio (who I much more experienced than I am) in various recitals/showcases this year and they have all worked with this gentlemen before. I've been flattered by their encouragement and acceptance along w/ their dismay at this gentlemen's hesitancy to cast me. It's an amazing feeling to me to have come out of college knowing that I had a lot of work to do and that I'm the bottom of the barrel and be accepted by these amazing singers, especially in NYC. So I'm sharing this news with you because I rather feel like, I'm about to get my first big break. I've been feeling like the hardest thing to do was to get my foot in the door, get cast in something, make some connections and get my first PROFESSIONAL performance under my belt now that I'm no longer a college student. This is just an overwhelmingly amazing way to ring in the year 2006!
I hope this year brings good things to all of us, especially my fellow performers, be you in a band, or a fantabulous comedy/music duo, or a future name in folk/rock or a countertenor/composer. I hope we all get our "big break" whatever that may be for you! thanks for letting me share this exciting news, and humoring me if any of you read it at all.
~xoxo ~ much love
I'm at work, minding my own business when my cell phone rings. I reach over and look at the number and think, I dont know this number...and it's been my policy not to answer often because I don't like wasting my daytime min, esp when it's a bullshit call. However, today is the day that I usually head into the city for my voice lesson. Unfortunately, the stupid strike is causing major problems with that...so while I didnt recognize the number it was a (212) so I thought what if my teacher is trying to contact me....so against my usual judgement, I answered the phone and boy was that a surprise.
On the other end of the line was a gentlemen who is the director of the New York Opera Forum, which I auditioned for many months ago. I am being cast as Gilda in their 2006 performance of Verdi's Rigoletto! Needless to say I did not see that coming. Honestly, when he first heard me, he felt that my voice was too big, and heavy for the role. He told me that he spoke w/ various people and they told him that he's listening wrong! lol He also said he's sure I'm going to prove him wrong, and has no doubts I can do it because I'm a student of the voice teacher I'm currently with.
Now I'm not saying all of that to gloat. I honestly feel quite humbled from this whole thing. I've been singing w/ - /for my teacher and other students in her studio (who I much more experienced than I am) in various recitals/showcases this year and they have all worked with this gentlemen before. I've been flattered by their encouragement and acceptance along w/ their dismay at this gentlemen's hesitancy to cast me. It's an amazing feeling to me to have come out of college knowing that I had a lot of work to do and that I'm the bottom of the barrel and be accepted by these amazing singers, especially in NYC. So I'm sharing this news with you because I rather feel like, I'm about to get my first big break. I've been feeling like the hardest thing to do was to get my foot in the door, get cast in something, make some connections and get my first PROFESSIONAL performance under my belt now that I'm no longer a college student. This is just an overwhelmingly amazing way to ring in the year 2006!
I hope this year brings good things to all of us, especially my fellow performers, be you in a band, or a fantabulous comedy/music duo, or a future name in folk/rock or a countertenor/composer. I hope we all get our "big break" whatever that may be for you! thanks for letting me share this exciting news, and humoring me if any of you read it at all.
~xoxo ~ much love