The travels of an opera singer
The travels of an opera singer
On a sunny winter day in July, 2022, I arrived in Brisbane. In a few months time I would be singing the mezzo-soprano solo in Mahler’s 3rd Symphony, and I had come to the city for 48 hours to run through the score with the conductor, Simon Hewett, and to do a round of publicity …
Many months ago my attention was drawn to a 25 minute, comic one-act opera monologue written for mezzo-soprano based on the words of American cooking personality Julia Child. The friend and colleague who sent me the music said he could imagine me singing the role, suggesting it would be a fun piece to perform at …