A few words from Broy

Hey All! You'll be happy to hear that Dan and Whitney made it to Frankfurt in one piece (well, two pieces if you want to be picky about it). We've already done a bit of traveling and have certainly exposed them to a lot of our favorite German cuisine. I've posted a couple of pictures below. The first is self explanatory and the second was taken in the picturesque town of Marburg. That's all I've got for this week but I'm happy to pass the blog baton on to Brenda for the rest of this post. I hope you're well and I'll talk to you next week!

Oh boy! The blog has suddenly changed voices! Now it's much higher, and doesn't make as much sense (I do tend to play crazy people you know...). :-) As Chad stated above, our friends Dan and Whitney are visiting. It's been super fun! The sad part is that I've been having about six hours of rehearsal per day for an opera called La Giuditta, so I haven't been able to give them the love and devotion they deserve. We open the opera on June 12th (yikes! that's coming up fast!) and it's been an interesting process. The opera was written in 1726, and the director has us switching between modern movements and more baroque movements. Now, the singers involved in this show are not baroque movement specialists, but thankfully we've had a choreographer to help us along! It's been a completely different process than the other shows I've been involved in at Frankfurt, and that definitely keeps me on my toes! I'm very excited for the premiere. I sure do love my life as an opera singer. :-)

That said, I'm already looking forward to my summer vacation! Chad and I haven't made any definitive plans, but we are hoping to spend some time in Italy before we come back to the States. I'd like to revamp my Italian language skills, since it's been 7 years since I spent a summer in Italy studying the language! One other cool thing about the rehearsal process for Giuditta has been the abundance of different native languages. Our director speaks French, Italian and English, and rehearsals are conducted in English, since that's the most common second language for people. However, the choreographer is German, but he speaks French as well, so the director speaks in French to him, but the choreographer speaks in German to me. Our conductor is Italian, so there's also some Italian flying around! I still love hearing four different languages every day, and it makes me want to focus on really strengthening my languages!

Well, I think I'll end it there, and spend some more time with our guests! I'm hoping to post a blog entry on my website when my schedule dies down a bit. Of course the website needs to be updated as well... Ahh, I'll think about that later! Hope you're all well! Much love!