Last Lucia, music, teaching...

This week was really nice. On Monday we had our last performance of Lucia di Lammermoor of this season. Next season will come again I believe around March. Singing Edgardo has been such fun and challenging experience. As you know from my previews blogs, I did a lot of research on it, and up until last week I went to see yet another performance of Lucia at Deutsche Oper Berlin, with Javier Camarena singing Edgardo, and he was great. You can read more about my experience with him on the blog of last week, here on my website.

Our last Lucia was really special for Akiho and I, we both learnt these roles here and throughout the 8 performances we kept learning and improving the way we portray the characters and the music. I personally love my last aria and the end of the opera, it is really challenging and I put all I have into it, there is no middle way there, it is all in or you are out. I am glad all the performances went well.

I also continue looking into the repertoire for next season, I went through the music of 2 different operas, some Hydn music for a concert, and opera arias for an upcoming opera gala in July. So, I keep myself busy and I am working intensively on the next projects.

I also gave some lesson to a Japanese tenor which I met last summer in Japan and it is going well, he is clever and trusts what I suggest to him. I am enjoying working with him, because I also learn a lot and I find so interesting how much one has to think before explaining a concept to the student. It is already hard enough to understand and sing well, but to explain to someone else is a complite different thing. Because singing is so much based on sensations and imagination as well as phisiological, to speak and explain the way to sing is easy compared to actually do it. Personally I find the challenge to convey my ideas to someone else and that he or she understands and applies it, is so fascinating and it makes me happy to be able to help someone. Specially on something I have spent years understanding, learning and putting into practice.

I hope you are well, take care and see you here next week.