Last Falstaff of the season, preparing, summer break...
Hi there! I hope you are well. This week was an intense one, I am preparing for moving out of my current flat, so as you can imagine a lot of packing is being made and a lot of things to organize. Today I had the last performance of Falstaff and also the last performance of the season. My Akiho just came back from her holidays in Japan few days ago and came directly to Wuerzburg to see Falstaff and to help me with the moving, thank you Aki. I am incredibly grateful for this season and the roles I learnt and performed (Don Ottavio, Edgardo, Fenton and Camille de Rossillon). It was a very nice season but everything comes to an end. This time not only the end of the season for me, but as well the end of my time in Wuerzburg as a member of the soloists at the theater. I took the decision last October to quit the theater at the end of the season, in order to persue a career as freelancer and find new challenges and make music somewhere else. I want to make a broader network as an artist and being in Wuerzburg did not allow me to reach other opportunities. I passed several during these last 8 seasons, and I am now ready to join the pool of thousands of singers trying to make their on way on this difficult but incredibly and noble profession. For eight years this has been my home, my place to grow, a place to learn and get to know and work with other artists and learn really this job. To sing in any condition possible both body and mentally. To be in an ensemble in a middle house in Germany is really challenging and you work a lot and have many and I really mean, many performances with different repertoire at the same time. I cannot stress enough how important is to have a solid technique and lots of understanding of your own capabilities as well as one's limitations, in order to cope and get through sometimes very challenging times, where one performs multiple occasions a week. But I can say that it has been incredible to learn this job for the last 8 seasons at Mainfrankentheater Wuerzburg. I owe much of who I am now as an artist to this Opera House.
Facing now and onwards to the future, of course I have fears and doubts but I also have the strength to keep going, no matter the struggles I will give keep giving my best. I have been in very tough situations during my whole life, so this is yet another big challenge, it is not the first and for sure not the last of many to come. I also count with the support of my Akiho and family. So I am now looking forward to my new present and future. I will keep working on my voice and I will be challenged to my limits and I will find out how resourceful and capable am.
I have come to the end of a beautiful chapter of my life, after singing hundreds of performances and many roles over the last 8 seasons here in Wuerzburg. I am grateful to all my colleagues, orchestra, choir, dirigent Enrico Calesso, Operndirektor Berthold Warnecke and Intendant Markus Trabush for trusting my work and my voice as an artist for the last 8 years. I want to thank also every person who came to see the performances and the support they showed us with their applause and bravos. I am thankful to all the costume department and make up, who were always attending to us so that we are ready to go on stage. To all the people behind the stage, that help to bring the whole performance together. To all of you thank you. I will always take you where ever I go in my heart.
Now I look forward to move out next week to my next destination. And after I have settled down, then, and only then I can enjoy few weeks of well deserved vacation. Like every week, I keep doing my 4 time a week excercise routine although somedays are very difficult. I keep reading R. Holiday and Tolstoi.
I hope you are well and take care. See you next week.
