>be me, rodless
>staffless
>walking thru the valley of the shadow of death
>fearing evil
>see a guy next to me
>of course he's got a rod
>look closer
>staff
>asks me why i look so afraid
>mfw
was asked to sing for free for the baroque ensemble at school. said yes out of good will. missed a rehearsal. was fired. recieved an emergency call asking me to step in to replace a tenor (me). was offered $150 to sing the show i was originally slated to sing for free
Breaking News: The cost of a subway ride or bus trip in New York City will increase for the first time in eight years, from $2.75 to $2.90 by late August.
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@EvanstonPD
employed outside agitators to gas student protestors (My friends and colleagues) at Northwestern University. check
@copsoutofNU
for the full story, and show your support monetarily at their venmo, @ NUCNC. Solidarität!
@cia__asset
i used to do this but alternating between honey pretzel chips and tortilla chips (hint of lime) because the two taste sensations were deeply polarizing
girlfriend appreciation post i think i am in love. i've never met anyone with as sharp a pen and clear a head . and she can sing and she holds my love and i hers
i just sang opera and musical theatre before a live audience again.... inside... and literally almost vomited before because of 1+ year of performance anxiety. but i did it can i get a w
i can't say this on my main social media. but. principal tenor at my opera company has covid. i am singing the dress rehearsal with full orchestra. on 24hrs notice this is every singers dream/nightmare. and im so fucking ready.
booked a church job at an incredibly beautiful, HUGE, historic episcopalian church, 5 BLOCKS from my apartment!!! i am an employed nyc singer. can i get a w
Just a reminder to everyone that "The Great Gatsby" enters the public domain at 12 am on Friday. Get your revisionist stage adaptations, including musicals, started now!
being an opera singer is so embarrassing man i'm walking around saying shit like "i gotta practice my L's" like i'm a kindergartner w a spelling test tomorrow
no yeah that's cool you can interpolate a high Do at the end of the cabaletta that's cool.. i mean... if your rep is from before roughly 1830 that isn't really stylistically accurate. but i bet it sounds so good dude, you should do it anyway!!
i think my lowest point was hitting a shattered glass vape i found on the ground in evanston illinois and having burning hot globules of oil launch into my eyes and throat causing me to lose my voice for an upcoming opera i was singing the lead in. i lied and said i was sick.
i can't say this on my main social media. but. principal tenor at my opera company has covid. i am singing the dress rehearsal with full orchestra. on 24hrs notice this is every singers dream/nightmare. and im so fucking ready.
very hilarious that i am made to perform classical masculinity in opera school and chided for my reluctance in doing so when my greatest professional opportunities have been built on a R E J E C T I O N of that performance!!
when my various suitors are vying for my attention upon returning to boston but i am tracking down every operatic adaptation of ariosto's ORLANDO FURIOSO (there are 40 so far) and where among the 30,000 lines of text their plots fall
there is a systematic effort in musicology and pedagogy to convince young musicians of the supremacy of german musics and the inferiority of the italian/galant style and i'm so sick of it
this is a selection of a piece from Anna di Resburgo, notably the only extant opera by Carolina Uccelli. She was the only woman that we know of to have an opera professionally produced in 19th italy. I'm filling in for another tenor, who's sick (groundbreaking)
free unrestricted operatic singing is an unbelievable sensation. I close my eyes and can feel the room vibrating sympathetically with my voice. i can feel every cavity in my skull shake with resonance. i can shake the strings on my guitar from across the room with my voice.
still reeling over the c*p that came to the coffee shop where I work last week and asked, straight faced, for a cup of straight milk. With Ice. iced milk. gotta get strong bones for throwing protesters off their bikes, I guess.
part of the reason why bach is such a constant wellspring of inspiration to me is his stubbornness and practicality. he knew his style was outdated but stuck to what he loved using the resources available to him
i was in this production and in addition to prominent use of foot pics in the advertisements they have also taken 2 months to pay me. spent all the money on feet pix evidently
Kanye West delaying the livestream of his opera by over an hour and just playing his own music on repeat for everyone tuning in is the most Kanye thing ever.
#nebuchadnezzar
i think we as opera singers need to start writing music and start writing it for our friends who are not opera singers. and if you don't have any friends who aren't opera singers. you should make some. now
you see your honor when i was singing off the voice and crooning during that bach cantata i was actually doing a based caricature of the ""early music sound"" i would never really sing like that
judge: five thousand years in the pain Orb *bang*
zoe and i got into a verbal argument over whether someone would feel the vibrations in the apartments at the myrtle ave sto the train goes by. she said you wouldn't because "it's just noise". can someone back me up here. this is insane rigjt.
Of course that's your contention. You just got done looking at a chart of the structures of the larynx. You just got finished readin' some vocal ped guy - Richard Miller probably. You're gonna be convinced that breath and pressure management is the key to a squillante sound until
got into the finals of a competition whos application required no video (just repertoire selections ?), whose application i did while blackout drunk. i do not remember my submissions but i guess my shadow self telegraphed exquisite taste in her audition selections.
how does one embark on a daily practice of cultivating an optimistic revolutionary spirit, i.e. “a better world is possible!” sick of being a perpetual doomer all the time.
this + a j got me cleaning my room preparing for the great May Festival at which i will frolick and prance in a manner most unbecoming of an englishwoman