Hey Galahad, and any other opera lovers

[CapeCodTenor]

If you are able to, there's the Mozart Opera "La Finta Giardiniera" will be on at 2:00 PM EST on www.operacast.com. The st ation is RADIO STEPHANSDOM from Vienna, Austria. Go to "Schedule this week" for Monday thru Friday and scroll down 'til Thursday. My opera dept. did this opera my Sr. year in college. I played the role of Don Anchise, who is in love with Sandrina. It's a good opera.

 

[BelleMcNally]

Very cool! Thanks for the heads-up.

I performed in the opera every year at college, and still love listening to/seeing it performed--esp. Mozart.

 

[CapeCodTenor]

Very cool! Thanks for the heads-up.

Hey, no prob. Glad to be of assistance.

I performed in the opera every year at college, and still love listening to/seeing it performed--esp. Mozart.

Really? Were you a music major, or did you just do it for fun? I was a performance major. Got my degree in Voice Performance with an Opera Emphasis. I got into opera because I love listening to all the voices intermixed with the orchestration. I use to listen to the Met. broadcasts every Saturday when I worked.

eta: www.operacast.com is a great web site for opera from around the world.

 

[accomp]

www.operacast.com is a great web site for opera from around the world.

Thank you so much for the link! I need to bookmark it.

 

[BelleMcNally]

Really? Were you a music major, or did you just do it for fun? I was a performance major. Got my degree in Voice Performance with an Opera Emphasis. I got into opera because I love listening to all the voices intermixed with the orchestration. I use to listen to the Met. broadcasts every Saturday when I worked.

I started off in pre-med with a vocal performance minor; I ended up dropping the minor and picking up theatre & anthropology, but I kept up with voice lessons all four years. The opera was open for anyone to audition--although majors got most of the leads. I was lucky though, since most of the profs knew me from my original minor. I did give a senior recital, simply because I had enough vocal training and music theiry credits to qualify for one...but I don't think I would have really enjoyed staying with the music program hardcore...they were *very* traditional and I butted heads with the department numerous times on the topic of exploring more 20th atonal stuff (their interest in such things pretty much began & ended with some of Barber's more experimental stuff)...but we pretty much agreed to disagree and I have nothing but great memories.

 

[CapeCodTenor]

I started off in pre-med with a vocal performance minor; I ended up dropping the minor and picking up theatre & anthropology, but I kept up with voice lessons all four years. The opera was open for anyone to audition--although majors got most of the leads. I was lucky though, since most of the profs knew me from my original minor. I did give a senior recital, simply because I had enough vocal training and music theiry credits to qualify for one...but I don't think I would have really enjoyed staying with the music program hardcore...they were *very* traditional and I butted heads with the department numerous times on the topic of exploring more 20th atonal stuff (their interest in such things pretty much began & ended with some of Barber's more experimental stuff)...but we pretty much agreed to disagree and I have nothing but great memories.

That's cool. I was required to do a Jr. and Sr. recital. I didn't want to, but had to - I'd rather perform in a staged production than stand there and sing. I guess it was for the greater good for my performance abilities, but I still didn't like it. Our school's Voice Dept. would get each student to sing in every major language and contrasting styles, so for the atonal...if you wanted to tackle it go for it. Now our Composition Dept. would prefer their students to compose in atonal. Some, most actually, voice teachers would have their students perform something in atonal so they got the chance to work those skills.

As an Opera emphasis major, I was usually given some kind of role for most of the operas. I was one of only 3 tenors in the dept. so I usually got something. I wasn't always guaranteed a major lead, but I always got something.

So you now have a minor in Theater and Anthropology, or a double major? Anthropology, that' pretty cool. Do you miss it at all? Do you regret getting out of it sometimes? Once I got out of school I pretty much gave up on the dream of wanting to make it big in the opera field. Not to boast, but I think I have a pretty darn good voice, it's just that I don't trust my technique. What my voice teacher did my freshman year, and I didn't realize this until about a year go, is try and change my technique and that just screwed me all up. Untill that point I was fearless. I'd audition for anything, but not anymore. Oh well. I still take lessons and perform from time to time with local community theater groups. So I'm basically having fun in my lessons now. I'm singing broadway as well as classical.

Thank you so much for the link! I need to bookmark it.

No prob. If I can enrich someone's life through music then I'm more than happy to pass along a good music site.

 

[BelleMcNally]

So you now have a minor in Theater and Anthropology, or a double major? Anthropology, that' pretty cool. Do you miss it at all? Do you regret getting out of it sometimes?

I still take lessons and perform from time to time with local community theater groups. So I'm basically having fun in my lessons now. I'm singing broadway as well as classical.

I had a double major of pre-med & anthro (focusing on Archeaology) with a minor in theatre. I actually just finished up working with a Shakespeare troupe for a year (I'm currently working as a secretary), and did some singing with that. I'm headed back to Med School next year, and it kinda hurts to give up performing as a career. Like you, I'd like to think I have a lot of talent--but the lifestyle just doesn't appeal to me. The uncertainty and the odd hours and constant unemployment would get to me after a while.

The town I'm moving to for school had some really great community theatre, though, and my fiance is getting his MFA in Acting, so I'm hoping to keep it a part of my life.

If not I can always torture my patients by making them listen to me sing!

 

[CapeCodTenor]

I had a double major of pre-med & anthro (focusing on Archeaology) with a minor in theatre. I actually just finished up working with a Shakespeare troupe for a year (I'm currently working as a secretary), and did some singing with that. I'm headed back to Med School next year, and it kinda hurts to give up performing as a career. Like you, I'd like to think I have a lot of talent--but the lifestyle just doesn't appeal to me. The uncertainty and the odd hours and constant unemployment would get to me after a while.

I had three choices of majors I wanted to go into, 1) Music, the one I chose, 2) Archeaology, not because of the Indiana films, but because I love history and 3) Architecture, I hate math so that wasn't going to happen. So I got my music degree in hopes of making it big...but, like you, I the short periods of employment followed by long periods of, "Where's my next meal comming from?" just didn't jive with me. So, I'm working as a paralegal in a law firm here in Boston. I love my solid paycheck and beni's too much.

 

[Mandabella]

Thanks for the link!