Berlin, Tamino, Studying...

Hi there! This week has been really nice. I have been practising and working on some excercises Camarena recommended me to do, specially on the high part of my voice and I am happy with the way its working. I continue to put on my voice the repertoire for the Opera Gala that is coming at the begninning of July and also for the Haydn work I must learn. Also, I started learning the text and notes of Lustige Witwe for the upcoming season here at the Theater in Wuerzburg.

This week I managed again to go to Berlin, this time to visit a friend and go to see again Lucia di Lammermoor at Deutsche Oper Berlin, with Rolando Villazon. I must say, few weeks ago I was wondering wether he would perform such demanding role, and to my misfortune, he did not perform and instead one of the tenors of the ensemble sang the role of Edgardo. It was his debut and for my own experience I know how difficult role and challenging is, so he did well but I was expecting more from a theater like Deutsche Oper, that is all.

As you may have read in previews blogs you know that I really like jogging, but to be honest I have not been jogging since long time, this week I did go twice and the first was while in Berlin at the Tempelhof. It was really early and sunny and already warm but cool enough to run around it, I guess it was before 8am, and there were already people going as well, I really recommend it.

While in Berlin I was staying at my friends house, her name Anna Luise, and she had Birthday, I did not know, so it was a surprise for me and actually it was a great time to be there for her Birthday. She loves sweets so i bought some very nice baked goods and we had coffee in her balcony and ate some. Plus we sang to each other, as a friend of hers is staying at her place as well, he is a pianist, so he played with us. It was such a nice time.

Today we had performance again of Magic flute and ti went really well, the audience was really nice and I enjoyed singing Tamino, but my clothes are so warm, winter like and I was boiling and sweating a lot, specially the first half. Today was really warm and with the lights of the stage and the singing sand jumping around, just made me be so sweaty, but I kept drinking water throughout the performance, that helped a lot.

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