Dear Readers,
As the South-Eastern United States braces itself for yet another mid-week winter storm and the North continues to get blasted with arctic conditions that have become common place in 2014, the UGA Opera Theater is putting up Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore!!!
This Friday, Saturday and Sunday I will be singing Nemorino.
We are in production week which means, for those of you unfamiliar with opera/theater, we are on stage in costumes running the show Monday-Thursday. We have, in fact, been rehearsing the show on stage for over a week now. We had our "sitzprobe" this past Sunday - a sitzprobe is a musical run of the work without staging. Our final dress rehearsal might be cancelled due to weather conditions - frankly, our opening night might be cancelled for the same reason.
Keep your fingers crossed, and hope that this "storm" wont be too bad.
I would also like to endorse the show: The show is going to be fabulous! It is going to be streamed live, I believe through WUGATV - more on that as information becomes available. There is love, drama, quite a bit of slapstick, drunken debauchery, death, dancing, books, deception and loads of singing! What more could you ask for in an opera?
In other news, a good friend of mine: NYC-based guitarist/song-writer Danny Iuliano shared a video with me:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/05/ira-glass-the-gap_n_4725520.html
It a video worth watching if you're anything like me. It is worth watching if you're nothing like me but feel some self doubt or tend to run from challenges.
Best to you all,
thanks for reading
Joe
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