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I am SO FREAKIN LUCKY. Do you know what’s in front of me? An entire mini orchestra that’s playing Mozart. And we get to sing with them. Guys there are violins. There are violins and violas and a clarinet and an oboe and and our wonderful pianist and the others will be here on Friday and I am just sitting here so freakin happy. It sounds so REAL. 💖 (Come see @CometOpera’s Tito Dec 1 at the Dallas Public Library and Dec 6 and 8 on campus)

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I love this quote so much. And the Leonard Bernstein one that always accompanies it in my mind: “To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.” Keep your fingers crossed for @CometOpera’s “Tito”! #Repost @opera.nova with @get_repost
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Isn't it true?
#operanova #operamusic #artmatters

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sous le dôme épais
deux soeurs chantent en français
l’une joue bien, et son art crée
et c’est son rire que je préfère,
elle ne cache pas son sourire.
l’amour est une soeur lontaine,
qui a dix-neuf ans maintenant
viens, gagnons le jour
quand on se revoit
et les soeurs, les soeurs chantent.
Happy birthday ya nerd @laurencarisssa, go rock everyone’s socks today and every day ❤️🌻❤️

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Guess where I am! @americanbaroqueopera for my first French baroque! (And scoping out the @sammons_center’s new setup a bit for Opera in Concert’s upcoming Gilbert and Sullivan concert 😉)

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According to Facebook I painted this sweatshirt 6 years ago, and I’m pretty sure I’ve reused it for three or four Halloweens since - you can’t beat comfy, simple, and an excellent character ❄️

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It was so hard to get a curtain call shot of the riot of color that was @thedallasopera’s magic flute!! Shoutout to seeing the legendary @samantha.hankey live for the first time, discovering the charming @acsoprano, and pointing out all the Clemenza crossover content with Avanti. (And an extra shoutout to the audience member who yelled “NEIN” when Papageno asked for a yes or no. You tried 😆)

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I love the difference between the vehemence of Handel’s Sesto singing “traditore,” and the disgust and pain of Mozart’s Sesto singing it. Things are a lot simpler when you’re not the traitor! .

If you missed last Sunday’s Opera on Tap performance, come hear me swear vengeance and read fortunes again this Sunday in the @muphiepsilondal recital series at the @dallaspubliclibrary! 📸 Ed Flaspoehler.

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Sometimes the Emerging Media History readings are useful for more than course objectives! Carly Kocurek's descriptions of the "technomasculine," the cultural archetype of the heroic boy gamer, could all be easily extended to hacker/techie Sesto's characterization in @CometOpera's "Tito" - young, reckless, isolated, anxious to prove himself, prone to breaking rules and causing trouble that may or may not backfire on the ones he cares about. (Quotes all from Kocurek's "Coin-Operated Americans," about American video game history and culture.)

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She’s beauty, she’s grace
I love this person’s face
She’s cute as heck and tough as nails
Her sense of humor never fails
I love her love for kids and pets
And I hope today she gets
Starbucks or something nice because it’s her 22nd birthday and I love her and she deserves all the fun ❤️❤️❤️ happy birthday @allison_ivey_ !!

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Y’all the @dallastheatercenter ushers will point you to THE BEST SEATS if you just ask 💖 Can’t wait to see @tiffanydesena @tia3kaye @chrisllewynramirez @megasmile and everyone else rock #InTheHeightsDTC!!

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It's hard to think of two looks further apart than last week's Glinda and this week's chimney sweep! Hashtag one-week 180? 😁 (Featuring our fabulous Mary Poppins and choir director, Amanda Hollis!) We have one week left of Broadway services - tune in next Sunday for Hairspray!

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It’s not every church where you get to sing “Popular” in full glittery drag queen fabulosity - twice in one day! And wow, people LOVED the music- they didn’t even let the finale accompaniment finish before they were ON THEIR FEET applauding. This really is a tiny but mighty choir. 💖

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What a treat to spend six weeks in Arden with #PWDAsYouLikeIt. What a treat to be so surrounded by love and joy and community. 💚💖💚
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That’s a wrap for Public Works Dallas “As You Like It!”Here are the Brierley Resident Acting Company members and their beautiful cast members! #ALLAREWELCOMEHERE #DALLASTHEATERCENTER #asyoulikeit #shakespeare #musical #Dtc #publicworks #publicworksDallas #PWD #actingcompany @dallastheatercenter

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From Rosalind’s lady-in-waiting (ft. Ruggiero hair again! I’m quite the gnc “lady”, which fits the play 😁) to a free-and-easy Arden-dweller! #PWDAsYouLikeIt had its open dress tonight and tomorrow we open for real @dallastheatercenter! We’re sold out, but check online to find how you can still get tickets via the standby line ✨

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One week from opening night!! Get your tickets online starting tomorrow at 10am!
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We've had our first run-through...TICKETS GO ON SALE TOMORROW at 10am online & on-site at our box office!
Link in bio for tickets & volunteer opportunities!
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It’s really delightful to sing your first 24 Italian Songs selection after learning Italian! This “Vittoria” has a lot more context and technique to back it up than my first “Pur dicesti” did. 💖
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Want to hear more? Catch me at the @artsmission variety show Jul 27!

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Still not over the sky, the light, the flowers, the colors, the art - and very definitely still not over the enthusiasm Santa Feans have for opera. Avanti and I struck up conversations with an art gallery curator who told us the name of a piano bar to drop in at if we wanted to network with the pros and sing some arias with the pianist “who accompanies whatsername, Susan Graham, and he can play just about anything in that repertoire from memory - just tell him you’re a singer and he’ll put you up onstage,” and a bookseller who excitedly recounted the events of Wimbledon to us and then spent half an hour in exactly-as-delighted conversation about Così and what themes and concepts the SFO production brought out - “I’ve always thought it doesn’t make sense for them to go back to their original lovers, yknow? And it’s not like it’s in the score, so it’s always interesting to see how that’s handled - but don’t tell me how it ends! I’m seeing it on Wednesday, and I usually go to everything twice but this one, I might do three times” (which we agreed was a good plan because a concept that wild definitely needs some rewatching). Normally, when you say “We’re opera singers,” people say “oh wowww, really, that’s so Unusual, where did you go to school, what do you want to do with that, are you a church singer, do you teach,” like they’ve got to figure out if you’re serious or you Actually Mean something more familiar. In Santa Fe, they said “Oh! Are you with the apprentice program then?” 🤩 No surprise, just - of course! The opera! We all love the opera here!

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Oh my gosh, y’all. I’ve gotta sing here. It’s an absolute marvel of design. (Also #SFOCosi was AMAZING, ridiculous, dark, and gorgeously performed by everybody involved 🤩)

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#mood (Alfred Mann’s translation “The Study Of Counterpoint” from “Gradus Ad Parnassum”)

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Suuuper desultory score study (like... reading the score on my phone while listening to the recording desultory 😆) on the plane to see Così at @santafeopera! The more Mozart the better, right? #SFOCosi #CometClemenza @cometopera

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