I met an opera singer.

For real! And it was AWSUM.

 

Reality check: nothing kinky, sordid or taboo. I met a very interesting person, who is an opera singer. And I love opera. I love my Madama Butterfly, La Boheme, Dido & Aeneas… I tend more to Puccini, Verdi and Purcell, since I haven’t had the exposure I’d like to the Germans and French that I’d like. But that’s another topic altogether. We can talk about Mozart some other day.

I met her while helping with a promotional photo shoot for a local event, and during the shoot, she was asked to help relax the models by singing. She did the 2nd aria from Tosca, “Vissi d’Arte”, and filled a bright warm Spring morning with a presence and richness that blew me away. Wow.

We got to talking, and I offereed her the chance to record or rehearse sometime at the school that I teach at, since dealing with such technical precision as an operatic voice would be a good learning experience for my kids, and frankly, I’d love a chance to hear her again as well. So she takes me up on it! Woohoo!

What I didn’t realize till later, was that everyone considered it my recording session. Actually, it was to rerecord her performance with an orchestral backing so that it would be better used in the promotional materials. But I was the one who put people together, arranged times and setup things. In fact, I was not aware I was so focused on making this happen.

The session was great; a wonderful experience. So why is this event so important to me right now? Here’s why…

This very nice person, full of grace and passion for her work, became a trigger for activating a bunch of ideas I’ve had for some time. And I’m going to see about making them happen. I need to learn alot of new concepts and tech, so that’s fun and aggravating, but I have set a time window of the Fall. I want to put alot of my ideas in place and then meet with her and her fiance and see what they think, and hopefully, we can arrange the materials, venue and advertising to promote her work, as well as mine.

It’s weird looking back over the past week or so already. All I can do now is be faithful to the idea gnawing on the inside of my head, and do all I can to make this work.