Empress : Kaiserin

Wenn wir Italienish beginnen

So closed is the chapter on German Lieder, and it seems that we've worked ourselves into Italien operatic arias.

Frau Lim intends to bring me through one entire month of arias from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. The selections are the arias from Susanna, the Countess, Cherubino and Barbarina. Hooray, hooray! It excites me so, because Marriage of Figaro is one of my three favourite operas (the other two are Rossini's Barber of Seville and Puccini's Tosca). I shocked Frau Lim with the extend of my knowledge on Figaro when I hummed and half-sang the titles she mentioned to me. But still, singing the arias with professional help is going to be a new experience, and of course, much much more fun. I recalled tonight's evening when we worked on Batti batti o bel Masetto from Don Giovanni (also from Mozart) and I, struggling for breath at the end of the aria commented after singing that "it's crazy". It's sweet to hear Frau Lim giggle - and she agreed too: "Ya, the modern singers really said that's crazy."

So I'm looking forward to the Figaro arias. The strange coincidence is, our local opera company is performing that at the second half of the year too. Not that I'm performing or involving myself in any part of that production, lol.

posted by empress @ 4:50 PM