A la fin!

I've come to the end of the festival.  And I'm actually leaving a day early!  We finally got all that sorted out.  We weren't supposed to sing in the last concert anyway, but the festival wanted us to stick around for some reason.  Finally they just gave us our tickets and told us that if we wanted to leave early we'd have to change them ourselves.  No skin off my back!

Tonight will be my first time singing the bass solo in Mozart's Sparrow Mass.  I don't feel like trying to spell it out in German right now.  There was an older singer singing it for the first three concerts, but he's French and so he left early and I'm left to sing it.  It'll be okay I guess, it's just that I've never had any rehearsal for it and that can be a bit scary.  Last night was also our second and last cocktail concert.  I opened the concert with Questo Amor, vergogna mia from Edgar by Puccini.  Then halfway through Ryan and I sang the duet from La Boheme.  I've performed both better before, mais c'est la vie.  I had a coaching earlier in the day with a principal artist here whom I've become great friends with and it was fantastic.  He and I have pretty similar voices (I think) and so I've wanted to work with him a lot.  It's just hard to get instruction in a coaching and then be able to perform it 7 hours later in the same day.  However, everything is a work in process.

After the concert we all piled into a car and went to see the sunset, or couche' de soleil (the sun going to bed).  It was the second time I've been to see the sunset here, and both in the same week!  Since we live on the East side of the island we never get to see it set, so one of the drivers very kindly took us to see it twice.  And at two different places!  Yes, pictures to come, but the Internet here is so bad it just takes too long.  Maybe I'll open a Flicker account and put things there....though I do have a Google account and could use Picassa....hmmm...

So, not much longer here.  I think I maaaaay have housing worked out for Florence.  It still seems weird.  But alas, all will work out in the end!  Until next time!