Gems Come From Research
So I am playing a nun in Suor Angelica. Knowing next to nothing about nuns, I went to YouTube to watch the only recent movie I could think of (excluding the Sound of Music) with nuns: “Sister Act” with...
View ArticleNew Roles (written 2008/06/09)
Hey all, so instead of playing The Novice and the Third Sister I am playing a combined role of The Mistress of Novices and the Abess in Suor Angelica. I have a new favorite song: Off to rehearse!...
View ArticleThings to Bring to Indian Head
Due the climate, location and venue there are a number of things which it would be a good idea to bring to the Saltnote Stageworks Festival in Indian Head Maryland. Bug Spray Sunblock Picnic...
View ArticleNew Favorite Musical Theater Song
This is Meredeth Inglesby singing Robert Jason Brown’s “Stars and Moon” from his song cycle “Songs for a New World”: It is hilarious–Anna Turner sang it beautifully as part of Sunday’s Cabaret...
View ArticleA new tool for learning music
I have been having a bit of trouble with my 3rd Genii harmonies in Pamina’s suicide scene from Mozart’s The Magic Flute (properly Die Zauber Floete as we will be singing it in German). My roommate, a...
View ArticleA blogger/singer’s quandry (reviews of Saltnote Stageworks 2008)
Saltnote Stageworks got a bad review from the Washington Post. Now, as a singer I am finding that professionalism dictates that I don’t have anything good to say I shouldn’t say anything at all. (Not...
View ArticleStuff I wish I had brought (and will bring on my next long trip)
My own mug, knife, fork, spoon, plate, grocery bag I really dislike the consumptive lifestyle of traveling–eating take-out that comes in Styrofoam boxes, eating each breakfast using 2 Styrofoam cups...
View ArticlePictures from Carmina Burana, Suor Angelica and Pagliacci
See the slideshow of images from Saltnote Stagework’s Carmina Burana, Suor Angelica and Pagliacci. All of the images for these shows can be found here at Lionel’s Public Gallery. PS: here is Soprano...
View ArticleTiny update (and tantalizing preview of Papageno/Papagena duet)
We are at crunch time for Magic Flute and that is eating a lot of my creative energy–but here is a tantalizing preview of what is to come of all of this work: the Saltnote Stageworks choreography of...
View ArticleCopyright infringement? You decide.
I am learning (and in two cases relearning) arias for my new voice teacher right now. One of the techniques I picked up at Saltnote Stageworks is YouTubing songs I am learning to hear other’s...
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