Happy New Year, rehearsals, Ghibli...

Hi there! Happy new year to all of you! I started the week with some Mexican family at home, as I mentioned in my previews blog, aunties Tamara and Tabata with her husband Travis were here. On the first of January I gave them the basic tour of Wuerzburg which includes de Residenz, Dom, the center and its churches, and a view from the old bridge where you can see the Marienberg Fortress (huge castle on top of the hill). It was a quick but nice walk around town.

During the following days I had some rehearsals of Don Giovanni, we are finally finishing the first act and starting the second act. It has been very easy going rehearsal period for me and I am glad because the last 2 weeks I had several performances and I could distribute very well my energy, so I am glad I am singing Don Ottavio right now and not something bigger. This week I discovered "Candide" by Bernstein, and I find "Candide's lament" so beautiful and touching. The music is really nice and the whole work is really crazy but really nice, I guess it is intense for the audience. I have never seen it on stage but now I am very curious.

I continue reading "The daily Stioc" by Ryan Holiday and opened again the book " How not to diet" by Greger and it is really interesting to read. The first book I read of him " How not to die" changed my view on eating, specially my eating habits, and I am so grateful I found such book. It was about 4 years ago when I read it and it changed my life, litereally. I am also reading "Discourses" by Epictitus, which is very interesting and after reading Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, they all complement each other, although slightly different time lines.

To end this blog I want to say I saw yesterday in Chemnitz with Akiho, my first Ghibli movie at the cinema. The first Miyazaki movie I see on the big screen. His first movie I saw was with DVD, Chihiro's Travels. It changed the way I saw anime and the fantastic stories and rich culture of Japanese creators, and in general the Japanese creativity, and how they found in general through anime let their imagination run free. I have seen animes that are such masterpieces of the human imagination and creativiy and complexity but also with great humor and romanticism.

I hope you are well and please take care. See you next week.