After so many blog entries, you'd think I would have learned my lesson NOT to enter a title before my post. Many posts didn't make it because some did not match the title, and some I lost interest in blogging about.
But that's me--I conclude quickly. Not an ounce of patience. Very stubborn and always convinced that my conclusions are right and true.
This title is and will be what I shall blog about today.
It takes a while to redirect my opinions, and many challenges and arguments to change my mind about a certain many things.
5 years ago, if you were to tell me that I'd be sitting by my piano someday, working through coloratura passages of roles like Zerbinetta, Adele, Juliette, Oscar, etc.. I would have said to you,
"You're shitting me"
I would have also offensively cried out that
"I have a dark voice, and a passion for the dark dramatic lyric soprano rep. I am not some dumb coloratura silly calculative soprano. I can barely reach high A."...
5 years later, here I am...reaching F's above high C. Crouching over my piano...Somewhat very angrily, somewhat happily, somewhat tearfully, somewhat cheerfully, somewhat very fearfully, somewhat very uncertainly working on Zerbinetta's aria, Juliette's Je veux vivre, Adele's Mein herr Marquis, and Oscar's Volta la terre...
Despite all of these drama, I found out that the process isn't half as bad.
I have a huge infatuation for the lyric soprano melodies, but my voice is not happy in it. The voice despised me for titling it "lyric soprano" and rebelled. It became angry and I became angry too. We were just not getting along...
Now, I'm finally listening to what my voice needs. It doesn't want to be ignored. The voice wants to be used to it's fullest capacity. And who knows? I may find more in common with coloratura characters than I think.
Titles change all the time.
I'm not gonna lie about how afraid I am...(I am kinda a wuss to begin with).
But there's a reason why people say
"If the shoe fits, wear it."
Thus begins my walk in my coloratura heels.
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