Full swing past summer

Well, my last blog was right before classes started. To be honest, it doesn't feel very different now than my crazy summer days---but I seem to have more responsibility and less will to get everything done.

Two Gentlemen of Verona (despite a quasi-nasty review) went really well. I've never done 7 runs of a show before, and though 1 or 2 nights were a little sparse, it was a good experience, and I'm certainly glad I did it. I thought I'd be a major bomb, but it turns out that a lot of people really liked me, and the diretor gave me a lot of nice compliments. Growing up around a lot of pretty good actresses, I always felt untalented (acting-wise). Perhaps I've grown into it a little more and now have something to offer. Not that I'm going to give up the singing, but if other acting opportunities pop-up, I may not be as shy about it next time.

My classes are going well, and are pretty non-time consuming. Averaging one class a day (plus choir) is great. However, having work until 6pm most days doesn't help to keep me focused on my academics. So far Italian has been mostly review, and my Postural Alignment class has been very interesting. We'll have our first assignment due tuesday, and I hope I make the time to work on the body exercises everyday.

As for my singing, I'm at a weird place right now. I'm amidst some kind of allergy/cold or whatnot, and the singing feels strange. So that's pretty annoying. Add wasting a lot of pratice time ruffling through different (more obscure) Italian operas for a new aria, and practicing practially goes the wayside. Plus, my aria package is under my belt...why bother going over it ad nauseum at the lesson?-but of course I still need to practice it on my own. Part of me definitely wishes I didn't have this job right now, so I could focus in on everything.

As pretty much any grad-student vocalist could tell you--Young Artist applications are awful. It takes millemiums to fill them out, and then you have to take another 1000 years to figure out how to get to the auditions. Within a month it'll be close to Thanksgiving time, at which point I'll be living in NY all but 8 days until New Years. Sigh.

Opera casting should be finished (on the most part), and now we all just have to wait to find out the results. Bah. It's already been a month.

Ok, suppose this is long enough for now. Hopefully by next blog I'll have got my shtuff together so I'll be prepared and not as stressed about all those auditions.