This weekend I am HONORED to do a performance of Messiah with my former voice teacher and mentor, Sarah Holman. Dr. Holman was an incredible influence on me in college, and I can’t imagine being the singer I am today without her. I love how our relationship has grown over the years into being cherished colleagues and friends. Performing together is just icing on the cake!
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Today I finished a 3-performance run of Rachmaninoff’s “All-Night Vigil” with Cappella Romana in Portland and Seattle. What an adventure! It was my first time to perform the entire work, and also my first time to perform the beautiful (and deathly challenging) tenor solos. As I sit at home and recover, I think, “I am so tired!…Wow, that was beautiful!…It’s like a massage for my ears….I’m so happy I did that.”
Alas, life moves forward. After spending December with lots of Handel’s Messiah and various other performances, and then these Rachmaninoff concerts, I hardly have time to relax before the next project. Up next is excerpts from “Madame Butterfly” by Puccini with Portland Opera. (How’s that for “something completely different?”) I’m honored to be performing preview performances with the Portland Opera Studio Artists in preparation for the company’s mainstage production of “Butterfly.” This will be my first time singing Pinkerton (the tenor role in this opera), and it is some welcome new territory in my repertoire. I’m enjoying spending this week and weekend in Walla Walla, Washington performing with the Walla Walla Symphony. I’m performing with frequent collaborator conductor Yaakov Bergman and great soloists and new friends Beth Madsen Bradford, Charles Robert Stephens, and Sarah Parnicky. We performed a recital of opera and musical theater hits on Thursday night, and tomorrow we’ll be celebrating Christmas with Handel’s Messiah.
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