Hello everybody! Well, it's that time of the semester again! Finals are drawing near, and Chad is buried under a mountain of case books, so I'm doing my wifely duty and taking over the blog for the week! His first exam is a week from today. However stressful the exam period will be, I'm personally happy it's here, because that means Chad will soon join me in Germany! In about three weeks from now, he should be completely stress-free, perhaps enjoying an aperitif on our lovely balcony! Speaking of our balcony, we have a new addition growing on it! Last spring we were delighted by the green vines that decorated the posts, but they apparently grew a lot during the summer, and now there are little purple flowers blooming! I believe it's wisteria, and once they're in full bloom, our balcony will be so colorful!
The current state of our wisteria.
I have been busier than usual this past week, since I'm involved in two shows at the moment. As Chad mentioned, I started rehearsals for a new production in Frankfurt called The Rake's Progress, and have been in rehearsal pretty much every day for that. I'm also still doing performances of the Magic Flute, and since the cast has changed, I've been rehearsing with the new cast members. Yesterday I was literally running between rooms at the opera house, going between one rehearsal and the other! These operas were written more than 150 years apart, so you can imagine that the musical styles are quite different! I must admit, I was rather tired by the end of the day! My last Magic Flute is on Sunday, and even though it's a delightfully fun show, I will be glad to focus on just one opera!
Since The Rake's Progress is a new production, that means most of our rehearsals take place in a special rehearsal hall which is not at all near the opera house. I won't say it's in the middle of nowhere, but it sure feels like it early in the morning and I want to buy a coffee on my way, and there isn't anything nearby... Anyway, it prompted me to go out and buy a new (to me!) bicycle, since the subway can actually take longer than biking! I went out bike shopping with the American tenor who is singing the lead role in the opera (and with whom I went to Juilliard!), since he saw a used bike store in his neighborhood. There were two bikes that fit our price range, and I tried the pink and purple one, since it was more "girly". Of course, the other more "manly" bike didn't actually end up fitting him, and he started coveting my pink bike as we were on our test drives. Too bad for him, the bike suited me just fine, and I ended up buying it! Don't worry, he got a different bike the next day, but not before giving me a major guilt trip! :-) So now we're all getting in great shape by biking to rehearsal! If I bike to each rehearsal, I end up biking about 1 hour and 40 minutes each day! Not bad! Now the weather just needs to warm up... Those mornings are cold!
My new bike! Her name is Dazzler. I don't know
why I felt the need to name my bike...
So that's pretty much my life right now! All opera, all the time! I'm very excited for Chad to arrive in Germany, and am very happy he'll be around for the premiere of The Rake's Progress. He'll probably arrive about 10 days before we open, so he won't have to deal with my busy schedule too much! Then we can just focus on being together - one of our favorite pastimes. :-)
Have a beautiful week!
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