For the past couple of months I’ve been working with a director to construct a show which gets its first performances later this week. Despite the “everyone’s a creative person” school of thou...Read More
Would you like to sing? Opera? Yes. That’s great. Well if you do there are a number of ways you can do that. It’s going to take you about 8-10 years to train. There are no job guarantees a...Read More
So here we are on the penultimate rehearsal day of Falstaff. The general is tomorrow, and we open the run of seven performances on Saturday. This job typifies everything that is simultaneously wonderf...Read More
At the venue where I am rehearsing this week, my eye is caught by a postcard advertising a concert by a singer I don’t know. On reading the accompanying blurb, I discover that she is not only th...Read More
Last night I sang a concert in Edinburgh with the Berkshire Choral Festival. That’s Berkshire, New England, not Royal Berkshire. It was the closing concert of a week’s course – a sor...Read More