So yeah...I've never made a blog entry, but I feel today is just a need for it.
I had a FABULOUS voice lesson today and I just want to stand on top of a mountain and shout it to the world!!!!!!! As many of you know, I'm in school studying to be an opera singer. I've been going through a lot of trouble with this lately because I haven't been able to decide whether or not to do musical theatre or opera. Basically, I have a lot of natural instincts with musical theatre. It's where I got my start and what I thought to be my passion. I didn't start singing "classical" music until I began my undergraduate studie, and even then I was still apprehensive about it. It's out of my comfort zone and I have to work about 20 times as hard as I would to do musical theatre. Anyways, I got to perform my first real role in an opera this past Sunday. I played Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte, and had an absolute blast! It was basically a musical theatre role that required legit singing. Perfect, right?
So I finished my performance, and I was really upset. I had so many people come up to me and tell me how hilarious I was and they just loved me and I was their favorite part, etc. This was great, but what I really wanted to hear was "wow, your singing was great! You really moved me"...I know I'm selfish 😛. The thing is, I've been playing characters now since I started doing the whole "acting" thing. This was my time to show that I'm a decent singer, and I let my acting get in the way of it, and because of this my singing was just ehhh even though my character was funny as hell 😛. Anyways...now I'm rambling, but this is all relevant to what happened today.
So I had my voice lesson today and I talked to my teacher about what I should pursue. She was like "well, you have great natural instincts for character development and great comedic timing. I think you could be very successful in musical theatre with fairly little effort". I was like...okay. So I guess this means I should do musical theatre. My teacher asked how I thought Sunday's performance went, and I told her exactly what I just stated above. She then replied with...ah yes. I think it's time we start pursuing this singing thing a little more because it's obviously something you want. I've been waiting for you to say this since freshman year.
So we the vocalized and she took me ridiculously high hahaha. I was really excited and she was like "okay, now make fun of an opera singer". I did so, and she was like "it's funny, when you are "making fun" you are actually singing right". So we did this a little more and then she had me doing some arpeggios way high up above the staff. Then she told me to do it angrily, so I did. Then she played the queen of the night theme. If you don't know what that is, I'll post a link below. I legit almost piddled myself when she did. I was so excited. I have been wanting to sing queen of the night since I learned what opera is, but never thought I would be capable of it. So we then proceed to sing through "Der Holle Rache" and I'm just beaming because I actually CAN sing it...and not only did we sing it, she ASSIGNED it to me to learn and to perfect =o!!!! She then proceeds to tell me "from the moment I heard you, I thought this would be your role"...being that I have dog whistle notes in the stratosphere, plus a HUGE voice when I get above about an F. This is all technical shit, but basically queen of the night requires a very specific type of voice, and if you can nail it, you can make a career out of strictly THAT ROLE.
Anyways...I'm just exstatic right now. This is more bragging than anything, but I wanted to share in my success a little 🙂. It just was seriously the best voice lesson I've ever had, and it was so nice to be told for once that I actually COULD be successful in opera if I wanted to. I don't know where this is going to lead to, but I love that I have options 😀. EEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OINWEOINWOEINTOWEINTONW!!!!!!!!!!!!!11122233334444
Here is the fierceness that I'm now learning!!!
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I had a FABULOUS voice lesson today and I just want to stand on top of a mountain and shout it to the world!!!!!!! As many of you know, I'm in school studying to be an opera singer. I've been going through a lot of trouble with this lately because I haven't been able to decide whether or not to do musical theatre or opera. Basically, I have a lot of natural instincts with musical theatre. It's where I got my start and what I thought to be my passion. I didn't start singing "classical" music until I began my undergraduate studie, and even then I was still apprehensive about it. It's out of my comfort zone and I have to work about 20 times as hard as I would to do musical theatre. Anyways, I got to perform my first real role in an opera this past Sunday. I played Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte, and had an absolute blast! It was basically a musical theatre role that required legit singing. Perfect, right?
So I finished my performance, and I was really upset. I had so many people come up to me and tell me how hilarious I was and they just loved me and I was their favorite part, etc. This was great, but what I really wanted to hear was "wow, your singing was great! You really moved me"...I know I'm selfish 😛. The thing is, I've been playing characters now since I started doing the whole "acting" thing. This was my time to show that I'm a decent singer, and I let my acting get in the way of it, and because of this my singing was just ehhh even though my character was funny as hell 😛. Anyways...now I'm rambling, but this is all relevant to what happened today.
So I had my voice lesson today and I talked to my teacher about what I should pursue. She was like "well, you have great natural instincts for character development and great comedic timing. I think you could be very successful in musical theatre with fairly little effort". I was like...okay. So I guess this means I should do musical theatre. My teacher asked how I thought Sunday's performance went, and I told her exactly what I just stated above. She then replied with...ah yes. I think it's time we start pursuing this singing thing a little more because it's obviously something you want. I've been waiting for you to say this since freshman year.
So we the vocalized and she took me ridiculously high hahaha. I was really excited and she was like "okay, now make fun of an opera singer". I did so, and she was like "it's funny, when you are "making fun" you are actually singing right". So we did this a little more and then she had me doing some arpeggios way high up above the staff. Then she told me to do it angrily, so I did. Then she played the queen of the night theme. If you don't know what that is, I'll post a link below. I legit almost piddled myself when she did. I was so excited. I have been wanting to sing queen of the night since I learned what opera is, but never thought I would be capable of it. So we then proceed to sing through "Der Holle Rache" and I'm just beaming because I actually CAN sing it...and not only did we sing it, she ASSIGNED it to me to learn and to perfect =o!!!! She then proceeds to tell me "from the moment I heard you, I thought this would be your role"...being that I have dog whistle notes in the stratosphere, plus a HUGE voice when I get above about an F. This is all technical shit, but basically queen of the night requires a very specific type of voice, and if you can nail it, you can make a career out of strictly THAT ROLE.
Anyways...I'm just exstatic right now. This is more bragging than anything, but I wanted to share in my success a little 🙂. It just was seriously the best voice lesson I've ever had, and it was so nice to be told for once that I actually COULD be successful in opera if I wanted to. I don't know where this is going to lead to, but I love that I have options 😀. EEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OINWEOINWOEINTOWEINTONW!!!!!!!!!!!!!11122233334444
Here is the fierceness that I'm now learning!!!
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