I think I need to put away "Trübe Augen." Every time I sing it, I feel like I'm hitting a brick wall and at the end I need to take a nap. It shows a lot of great things about my voice, but right now it just sounds strained and like there's no space. So probably not the best thing to bring to auditions ( Read more... )

I decided to apply to Seagle Music Colony for next summer. They're doing Le Nozze di Figaro, and I was like, YAY. But they're also doing Carousel. And part of me would just kill to play Julie Jordan. I just miss musical theater, and I find that things click into place really well when I sing it. So along with "Deh vieni," I sent them the ( Read more... )

Oh my God, what do I want to do with my life?!

All right. A quick singing/auditions logistics post ( Read more... )

Things of which I do not approve:

-video games/computer games/toys that simulate school before kids go to school.
-markers that only draw on special paper that's included in the package
-kids' TV shows that aren't smarter than they seem

That's all. Dinner and quiet night in tonight.

~Anne

I'm not going to Green Bay for the Czech competition. Really wanted to, but then sang "Trübe Augen" in studio class and Terry told me that there was no way this aria could be technically ready in two weeks (or really, more like one and a half), not to mention that what with my recital and being sick this week, I haven't ever sung through my Czech ( Read more... )

I've just re-read Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility production diaries.

Home at 3:30 a.m. in a taxi, arseholed. I stumbled into my bedroom where Harriet Walter (who'd come down specially and was sharing my room) was already asleep. She sat bolt upright ( Read more... )

Oof. Thank goodness that's over. I'm going to the music library today and making copies of some things I've been dying to learn. Yayyyy!

( I wore a red dress and it was awesome! )

Recital in two hours. Ahhhhhhh.

Although I did just figure out how to put eyeliner on my lower lid, which is really exciting and it makes me look glamorous like whoa. Yay!

Ahhhhh, nervous.

~Anne

Well, there goes my last grad school application. Now all I have to do is send out some supplemental stuff--pre-screenings, performance programs, transcripts and the like--and then wait. Eek!

Lalalala. I am so ready to go. I love Rice. I hope they like me.

~Anne