Wow.

[unbound_spirit]

I sang for Licia Albanese today.  It was good.  She said I have a great "mezzo-voce" and a beautiful voice, which she thinks might turn out to be a spinto (really?) and suggested some roles she thinks I could do right now.  When I thanked her at the end, she pinched my cheek and said, "You sing, you sing!"  She's awesome. 

Last night was our very brief rehearsal for Thursday's performance with NJ Concert Opera orchestra.  I think it went well, and the conductor gave me another aria that he wants me to perform at the concert.  AND he wrote me an email this morning saying how pleased he was with my voice.  Sweet!

So now I have to keep practicing for Thursday, and then once that's over, start learning Acis and Galatea, and a few contemporary opera arias I want to take with me to California.  And one of these days I'll get to the beach.  I need a day at the beach. 

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[beachdog.livejournal.com]

For those of us tone deaf types:

Spinto (from Italian, "pushed") is a vocal term used to characterize a soprano or tenor voice of a weight between lyric and dramatic that is capable of handling large dramatic climaxes at moderate intervals. Sometimes the terms lirico-spinto or jugendlich-dramatisch are used. This voice type is recognized by its "slice," allowing the singer to be heard over a full Romantic orchestra in roles excluding, in particular, the most taxing of the Verdi, Puccini and verismo roles.

Spinto soprano: a lyric soprano with a fair amount of "pulp". As they have both a lyric and a dramatic quality, spinto sopranos are suitable for wide range of roles, from lyric roles such as Micaela in Carmen and Mimi in La Bohème to Verdi heroines like Leonora (in Il Trovatore or La Forza del Destino), Aïda or Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
Tenore spinto: the tenor equivalent of the above. They can sing roles like Rodolfo in La Bohème and Alfredo in La Traviata all the way up to Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca and Radames in Aïda.
To illustrate what a spinto voice is, and how it differs from a lyric voice, here is a link to a soundfile of Vissi d'arte sung by six different sopranos (on opera blog Parterre.com).

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From Wikipedia ... I still don't know what it means but it must be a compliment ... Congrats!!!

[pinkstiletto510.livejournal.com]

what roles did she suggest and what did you end up singing? (I'm a rep. nerd, i need to know these things haha)
congrats :)

[callmetothejedi.livejournal.com]

You sound really busy. I hope that you get to have a day at the beach too. You deserve a day of rest and relaxation after all of the hard work that you have done!

Also, congrats on all of the compliments that you have been receiving about your singing - you deserve it!