Home for two weeks!
Unbelievable, but I'm home for two weeks after being on the road for 3 months! I've really been looking forward to the opportunity of preparing for the next 2 months of performances, but unfortunately I've been fighting some kind of ear-infection/sinus-infection/now-seems-like-a-cold-but-at-3:30AM-goes-back-to-feeling-like-a-sinus-infection-again.... very, very annoying. I don't have a voice doctor here in Italy since I'm not here that often, and finally decided to start taking my emergency antibiotics today after three weeks of hoping things would eventually work themselves out. Hopefully the antibiotics will get me back in shape in the next few days so I can get back to work!
In the meantime, the weather has been just beautiful, so I'm hoping to get out and do some gardening over the weekend! It's time to trim shrubs (my job) and plant the garden (Hubby's job), and we just bought a new lawnmower today- the manual kind that has rotating blades and doesn't use electricity or fuel... I feel so virtuous! I hope that feeling holds up as I'm shoving the thing around cutting grass tomorrow!
I just finished a 10-day stint in Firenze recording an opera of Vivaldi, and though we were working a lot I did get a bit of time to wander around. The season has been unusually warm, and it was lovely to have the chance to walk and sightsee a bit. I had been there many years ago, but I always appreciate things more the third or fourth time around... a slow learner, I guess! The recording was very intense, and took a lot of concentration; I hadn't sung Vivaldi recitative for a while, and it's amazing how different it is from Handel (which I've been singing a lot of lately). It was nice to have the change, but I have to say I'm happy to get back to Handel recits again... probably just because my ear has become more attuned to the harmonic progressions he uses. Vivaldi had some very interesting and sometimes unexpected (to my ear, at least!) jumps harmonically speaking, that were hard to get used to and took some extra focus.
Must run because Hubby is taking me out for gelato (poor me....)
Happy Spring to everyone!
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In the meantime, the weather has been just beautiful, so I'm hoping to get out and do some gardening over the weekend! It's time to trim shrubs (my job) and plant the garden (Hubby's job), and we just bought a new lawnmower today- the manual kind that has rotating blades and doesn't use electricity or fuel... I feel so virtuous! I hope that feeling holds up as I'm shoving the thing around cutting grass tomorrow!
I just finished a 10-day stint in Firenze recording an opera of Vivaldi, and though we were working a lot I did get a bit of time to wander around. The season has been unusually warm, and it was lovely to have the chance to walk and sightsee a bit. I had been there many years ago, but I always appreciate things more the third or fourth time around... a slow learner, I guess! The recording was very intense, and took a lot of concentration; I hadn't sung Vivaldi recitative for a while, and it's amazing how different it is from Handel (which I've been singing a lot of lately). It was nice to have the change, but I have to say I'm happy to get back to Handel recits again... probably just because my ear has become more attuned to the harmonic progressions he uses. Vivaldi had some very interesting and sometimes unexpected (to my ear, at least!) jumps harmonically speaking, that were hard to get used to and took some extra focus.
Must run because Hubby is taking me out for gelato (poor me....)
Happy Spring to everyone!
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posted by Frogge at
10:02 AM
4 Comments:
Vivica,
I am sure that you sing beautiful with ear-infection, sinus-infection or not(smile).
Ciao Vivica…, my name is Jorge (I hope that you remember me) we met in Minneapolis several years ago; by the way how is Hanna? I hope that everybody is doing well.
It is so good to know that you are coming to MN again. I will get my tickets for your performance with Schubert Club and hopping to see you after and maybe to meet your husband (lucky guy).
I am working with a consulting firm now(as an Auditor) traveling to many different States all the time, however, I will be in MN for your presentation on 06/09
I am always reading about your successful career…oh I also forgot to get my tickets for the “Fracture” movie …I got to run too.
Happy Spring to you too, see ya' later
Buona fotuna
Jorge
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Anonymous, at 12:44 PM
Greetings Vivica:
I'm glad you're blogging again.
In a prior post
I praised your performance of
'La tarantula e un bicho mu malo', from 'La Tempranica', and I still think it sounds very nice.
Do you also have a liking for any Bach Cantatas? I think my favorite is Vergnugte Ruh (I hope that's spelled right).
It seems to me that Bach had a special liking for the mezzo-soprano voice.
When will you, if you plan to, record any Bach arias?...
Cheers from a Bach devotee,
Mario.
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Anonymous, at 5:55 AM
Hello Vivica,
Considering that this is a couple of weeks since your last posting, I am hoping that this finds you feeling better.
We went to see "Fracture" tonight. Because your scene was over so quickly, I was going to go back and ask the projectionist to rewind and play it again, but Mary stopped me and said I might get in trouble. However brief it was, it was fun to see/hear you.
I am a little confused as to whether you are the same Vivica Genaux that I have met. The one I know is so slender, she couldn't possibly be eating as much chocolate and gelato as you. Perhaps shoving the mower through the grass negates the gelato, etc?
Anyway, your blog entries are great fun to read. We look forward to seeing/hearing you in St. Paul. It looks like a good program.
best wishes
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Anonymous, at 6:09 PM
Hey Vivica,
I couldn't wait and ordered Atenaide from France. I got it last weekend and have listened to it enough in the last week that I am getting to know it. While good chunks of it are recycled arias from Orlando furioso, I love these versions of them. This is a great production with some of Vivaldi's most horrendously difficult arias--poor Guilaumette Laurens earned her money on this one. She seems to get the worst of them!
You are wonderful as Teodosio. Actually everyone is wonderful. Mind you, any opera with 4 low female voices is bound to be fabulous. Stutzmannis my favorite alto, and Romina Basso is great too. The trouble you said you had was not in evidence at all, and Laurens was also great. I wish they would stage this one with the cast on the recording. I'd fly anywhere to see that!
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