I had a wonderful coaching with Mary Dibbern. She and I worked on the German Lied I planned for our midterm recital that evening, we also went through 3 of my arias to help determine which to sing for our final performance. We opted for “Poor Wand’ring One.” She helped my tweak my cadenza at the end and spots where I need to take time so my pianist or hopefully as the case will be someday, conductor, will know when to come in/ give the cue to come in. I will be singing in Mary’s master class on Monday, so she and I looked at French diction for the last 5 or 10 minutes. We also had a nice little chat about possibilities for my next step. She’s worked for a few opera companies as a pianist and vocal coach. I’m considering more and more either going for a second masters somewhere specifically in opera or getting my Artist’s Diploma. Without the experience performing complete operas there will probably be few young artist programs that would be willing to accept me. Mary said many times the young artist is thrown right in into supporting roles (some of which are quite large) or even covering a main role.
After the coaching I had a quick make-up lesson with Yvonne. She and I worked on a few technical things and ran through my German Lied. She and I walked to lunch together.
After lunch I caught the bus home and showered, did my hair and makeup in preparation for our midterm recital. I had a quick dessert with Martina and all the girls before running to catch my bus back to school. We all walked over to the little chapel together where we were performing. Everyone sang really well. I know I could’ve done much better, but everyone said it sounded good. I’m excited to sing in the master class on Monday because the piece I’m singing, “Après un Rêve” by Faure, shows of my voice much better than the Lied did.
I caught the bus home after the recital and arrived just in time for the cook out. We all sat around the grill and cooked sausages on sticks. After a long and relaxing dinner, we enjoyed a small cup of coffee and played rummy again.
We had a lot of fun in German this morning to the point class started to go over. I had to leave because German ends at 9:30 and my lesson begin at 9:30 in St Marks across the street. In my lesson we worked on “Après un Rêve” in preparation for Monday.
When I left my lesson there was a fire truck, ambulance, and a couple cops all parked in the plaza in front of St Marks and the college. They were all just standing around. I walked into the college and found out that there was a guy up on the mountain behind the school threatening to jump. I’m assuming nothing came of it if that story was true because all the vehicles have since left.
This afternoon we have a Salzburg Festival master class to attend given by Jurgen Flimm. We are all quite excited to see some of the singers we saw last time again. Especially the Baritone Vladimir Kapshuk (whom many of us have friended on facebook) and the true Bass (who’s name we still do not know). A few of us ran into Vladimir yesterday as we were leaving our recital. When a few of us had gotten to the plaza between the college and St. Marks I swear I saw the bass, but no one else was paying any attention so couldn’t confirm it.
Tonight after the master class we are all going to the Augustiner Brewery. It is right down the street from the college. The plan is to have dinner and our first beer will be paid for by the program (meaning we already paid for it when we paid tuition).
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