The lesson was a smash!!!! It was great to get back into the nitty gritty of just SINGING. the VOICE. Making SOUND with it. AND.....vocally....everything was totally smooth all the way through my register. I was even singing up to E flats.....which I've never actually been able to do in a lesson before, only on my own!! Then, Prof. Janzen told me that I had a nice voice, very workable and no major technical issues to work through...just keep working on solid support, etc etc etc. That was probably the best possible result I could have gotten....and now I just need to find some appropriate repertoire. He suggested Gounod...which was suprising, but hey, I'm down! Now what I could REALLY use is an accompanist so I can really rehearse this music!!!!
After the lesson I celebrated with a few beers in Cologne and stumbled my way back home to Duesseldorf. It was a great day.
Also, Eva's teachers from Yale are visiting us this week, and today we went back to Cologne to see the Dom and have lunch. Basically it was a way for me to have an entire day's worth of their time getting to know them and picking their brains about the Yale Opera program and how to proceed with my singing. And now, I want to go to Yale. The program is FREE....all you have to do is get in. Easy, right? WRONG. They only have a total of 16 singers in the program at a time. I have a lot of work to do but at least I have a goal to work towards!
I'm also falling in love more and more everyday with little Nepomuk. He really is the world's most adorable child. And he laughs and smiles at me everytime I look at him. We're in love. I had a really awful pang of sadness when I realized that he won't remember me at all :( I guess that's the way it goes.
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