All the folks involved in the festival seem really nice. I’ve gotten to meet all the vocal and conductor interns over the last couple of days. One pleasant
surprise (which would not have been a surprise if I had taken the trouble to read the cover of my score) was finding Shanna Norton and her husband Sean Kelly
here; Shanna and I were at the LBJ School together; long-time friends of the Rosenbergs, she’s been the harp mentor here
several times, and Sean is in charge of the production of the opera.
I told Anna, the woman singing the Queen of the Night, that I was gonna fall in love with her as soon as I heard her sing her aria…that song gets to me everytime (as long as it is done well, and she does it well).
More “by the ways” yesterday: Found out that I was also singing the role of the Priest in the recitative with Tamino. Better adding stuff than taking it away.
🙂