Monday, August 22
(S)Lacking Today
Dear Several Visitors to This Site from Major Opera Companies in New York, Chicago, and Seattle (Girl! I know who you are! Shhh!):
How can you have time to surf opera weblogs all day? Shouldn't you be learning how to cast a decent show (just kidding, sorta!)? It should be noted I've received no visitors from the internal networks of Dallas or Houston Grand Opera. Could this be a coincidence, or are they busy putting their discerning ears and eyes to work on their uncompromising productions and the wealth of excellent singers old and new that grace their stages?
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Anyway, no real update today. I awoke at 4:30 AM to write a short article on Meredith Monk for an upcoming issue of The Stranger. Monk will be performing at McCaw Hall (home of Seattle Opera! Will I be blacklisted?) on Monday, September 5th as a part of our annual Bumbershoot Festival. I'm hoping she'll be naked and dancing in a little pool of stagelight. Speaking of… lunchtime!
How can you have time to surf opera weblogs all day? Shouldn't you be learning how to cast a decent show (just kidding, sorta!)? It should be noted I've received no visitors from the internal networks of Dallas or Houston Grand Opera. Could this be a coincidence, or are they busy putting their discerning ears and eyes to work on their uncompromising productions and the wealth of excellent singers old and new that grace their stages?
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Anyway, no real update today. I awoke at 4:30 AM to write a short article on Meredith Monk for an upcoming issue of The Stranger. Monk will be performing at McCaw Hall (home of Seattle Opera! Will I be blacklisted?) on Monday, September 5th as a part of our annual Bumbershoot Festival. I'm hoping she'll be naked and dancing in a little pool of stagelight. Speaking of… lunchtime!
Comments
So first off, I must mention that I am drunk and have only been reading our weblog for two days. And that I am going to break up a relationship of a year-long (which is much at 23) this next weekend. And that I work for the Boston Lyric Opera (please don't let them know), and that secretly I am a singer and not an administrator. BUT. Your word, with their insistence, mean that they cannot be forgotten. How four saints of you. Opera: to be valid, cannot be a museum. It cannot. It will not. But it only will not with the cannots of many people. And many of those people are not currently involved with opera. So we must scream to get them involved. Or sell ourselves as season subscriptions. Or sing. Or do all at once. Do I seem like the type that would make it any other way?