Very exciting weekend!
I participated in the Elgin Opera voice competition, in Division III, which was open to singers ages 19-26 years old. The preliminaries were on Saturday. I went in, did my thing (sang my normal audition aria) and went home. Got an email at 9:30pm that night telling me I'd made it to the semi-finals! I did a happy dance and went to bed.
Got up the next morning, and went back for the semi-finals. Again, I went in, did my thing (the same aria, plus one art song that the judges chose) and went home. Got an email at 8:30pm announcing the Finalists, and once again, I had made it!
This is huge for me. Yes, it's a small company in the suburbs of Chicago, but I've never made it past the preliminary round of any competition I've done. This feels like a result of all the hard work I've been doing this year just for my technique and my presence on stage. I've put in many hours with my coach, taken lessons with different teachers, done acting classes, and continued to perform wherever and whenever I can. And it's culminated into a lot of good things lately.
Making the finals in this comp means that I have a spot in their summer program as well, which will run through June 1-July 11 (all in the evenings/weekends though, so I can keep my job :) ) and feature a fully staged opera, a scenes concert, and several other concerts throughout the 6 weeks it runs.
So I can do that in addition to the Boheme I've been asked to do in August...can't wait to blog about what it feels like to get into Musetta's character!
An awesome weekend! and I can't wait for the finals on April 11!
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