Hello
there world! Was that stadium turned into a slaughter house or what? But I don't really wanna talk about it because quite frankly I don't give a shit about football. I didn't even watch any of the games! I have no patience to watch those games, I feel I could be doing something much more productive with my time.
Anyways this last Thursday was my birthday and I can safely say that I was
able to do everything I love and be with all the people that I love. I had a
fabulous voice lesson with my fabulous teacher. Sang Mozart who is one of my
favorite composers. Went to the book store and bought the other 2 books from
the Fifty Shades trilogy (holy shit it’s so good!). Had a great lunch with a
complete stranger who turned out to be super nice. Then I went to the MAC store
because I got a free makeup for my birthday. It was kinda terrifying during the
process of the make up because at some point I did think I was gonna look
ridiculous but once it was finished it looked AMAZING! I'll post a picture bellow.Then I went to a nearby
Starbucks to start reading Fifty Shades Darker (I got the pretty hard cover one
because they had run out of paperbacks). And can you actually believe that the
guy who sat next to me all smiles and nice manners actually scolded at me when
he saw the title of my book. Fucking jerk. Then I went to my aunt’s house where
we had popcorn, salame, cheese and chips while we drank Lemoncello and then red
wine and laughed and chatted and laughed some more. My friend Caio was to pick
me up but he was late because Prince Harry was visiting the building he works
in, how awesome is that, hun? When I got into his car I was extremely tipsy and
holding a bag of popcorn which I handed to him, a gift from my aunt. I got to
meet his new boyfriend who is really nice and very friendly and since traffic was
chaotic we had a lot of time to chat. I arrived at the bar I had told my
friends to meet me in 45 minutes late, they were all already there though. Then
I drank several mojitos and had a blast of a good time! We even read bits of
Fifty Shades Darker out loud for some laughs. Thankfully the book is in English
so the amount of people who actually had the capacity of understanding what we
were laughing at was small. Bottom line, GREAT BIRTHDAY.
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| that's me in the cool make up and with my happy drink! |
I’m real
excited because even though Brazil lost, what a humiliating game, I’ve
started prepping today for the two most important concerts of my year in Brazil, so fuck
football. First in the beginning of next month we will receive the lovely
Natalie Dessay and her husband. And I know, I know I might have bad-mouthed her a little bit
here for walking out of opera as if they were a worn out pair unwanted
Louboutins. But that was over a year ago so sod it.
She’s
doing this lovely, lovely, lovely chanson repertoire and I couldn’t help with
cheer and giggle as I saw the great list of Faure chansons I adore listed out! The
other ones I must admit I do not know but that’s the great thing about YouTube
and that great little program I have in my pc that downloads audios from
Youtube. I have over a month to become acquainted with these songs so I can
fully appreciate them when Natalie sings them.
I find that to most rewarding
because, for instance, even though I loved Jonas’ concert I didn’t know any of the songs he sang, not even one. And even though it was Jonas Kaufmann and he’s like
a God, I know I would have enjoyed myself much more had I known the music. Like
I enjoyed myself watching Gerry Finley sing Schubert’s Winterreisse. Gosh I can
remember like it was yeterday how Gute Nacht just pierced my heart and literally
made me cry, he drew freaking tears from me. And I want that experience
repeated because I ADORE chanson with an almost scary force, they just speak to
me. I’m not a very lieder person but chansons just hit the right spot. It's taste I
guess, but they get to me, and to have an actual French person (and not just any
person, it’s freaking Natalie Dessay) sing them it’s really something, so I’m
super excited. I’m probably going on both days, haven’t decided yet but
probably going to both performances.
And then
towards the end of next month one of the inspirations of my life nicest people
I’ve ever met is coming back. Joyce, the coolest opera singer EVER! I got the
news that she was scheduled to sing in São Paulo in August of this year a little
bit before going to NYC in October of last year and actually meeting her in
person. So I actually got to ask her about that engagement and she told me she
was super excited about coming back to Brazil and that the audience was simply
superb! But I must say I was expecting a repertoire of opera favorites for this
concert and when I saw it I was a bit shocked. Because I’m one of those
fans that knows basically everything she sings and then I felt at loss looking
through the rep and recognizing very few pieces.
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| Joyce being her awesome self! |
But no worries, I have already
downloaded every single one of the songs, including one by Villa Lobos that I
simply loved from an opera called Magdalena “”. It’s quite cool, this version bellow is sung by a great Brazilian mezzo soprano called Luciana Bueno. I remember the
first time I saw her live on stage I was extremely shocked at how good she was,
that was because she was playing the first wife in the musical “The King and I”
and all of a sudden there’s this huge gorgeous operatic voice amongst the much
shier musical theater ones. She was DA BOMB in that musical. Funnily enough
this same musical was conducted by my own voice teacher who is all kinds of awesome
herself.
But
anyways, back to the topic, Joyce’s concert which I’m super excited about plus
I’m taking ton of friends to see it and we will fangirl and it will be awesome.
From the stuff I do know she is doing only two Drama Queens arias, “Piangero la
sorte mia” which I one of my personal favorites so there’s a big YAY for that
and “Morte col fiero aspetto” which is also one of my favorites. But I would
just DIIIIIE (and this is the seventeen year old ´die´) if he sang Madre
Diletta, it’s my favorite track from the whole CD and it turns me into a puddle
of feels. Stuff that I didn’t know includes Haydn’s Ariadne of Naxos (I
downloaded a version with Vesselina Kasarova posted by my good friend Mike,
thanks hon!) and some Santoliquido (had no idea of his existence until today)
canzonettas. But I’m still hopeful for operatic encores, SEVERAL, pretty please!! If I can
expeculate, what I would love to hear as encores. Some Rossini awesomeness like
“Tanti Affetti”, “Una Voce Poco Fa” and “Non Piu Mesta”. Also some Baroque
bliss she does so well, like “Ombra mai Fu” or “Lasciami piangere”. Or Mozart,
what I wouldn’t give for “Ecco il Punto oooh Vitelia/ Non piu di fiori” or even
a simple “Deh Viene non tardar”. If she sang in French I would quite possibly
DIE (that seventeen year old DIE again), like “Je suis gris” or ANY aria from
Cendrillon (like THAT’s gonna happen).
Anyhow
I’m excited and since I’m SUPER UBER nice I’m posting here the repertoires both
are doing followed by links of the pieces in my favorite versions for us all to
get acquainted. My computer i kind of fucked up right now so I'll post the links when I can.
Natalie's and Laurent's Repertoire
Gabriel
Faure
Puisqu'Ici
Bas Toute Ame (V. Hugo)
Clair de
Lune (letra P. Verlaine)
Après un
Rêve (R. Bussine)
Mandoline
(P. Verlaine)
Les
berceaux (S. Prudhomme)
Prison (P.
Verlaine)
Fleur jetée
(A. Silvestre)
Pleurs d'Or
(A.V. Samain)
Henri
Duparc
Invitation
au Voyage (C. Baudelaire)
Au Pays où se Fait la Guerre (T. Gautier)
Soupir (S. Prudhomme)
La Vague et la Cloche (F. Coppée)
La Fuite (T. Gautier)
Francis Poulenc
Colloque (P. Valéry)
Calligrammes (7 poèmes de G. Apollinaire)
L'espionne
Mutation
Vers le sud
Il pleut
La grâce exilée
Aussi bien que les cigales
Voyage: Adieu amour nuage qui fuit
Fiançailles pour Rire (6 poèmes de L. de Vilmorin)
Leo Delibes
Les Trois Oiseaux (F. Coppée)
Charles-Marie
Widor
Nocturne
(A. Dorchain)
Qu'un Songe
au Ciel m'Enlève (V. Hugo)
Joyce’s Repertoire
HAYDN - Arianna a Naxos
SANTOLIQUIDO I canti della Sera
1. L’assiolo canta
2. Alba di luna sul bosco
3. Tristezza crepuscolare
4. L’incontro
ROSSINI Beltà crudele
La Danza
HASSE/HANDEL "Drama Queens”
Morte col fiero aspetto (Antonio e Cleopatra)
Piangerò (Giulio Cesare)
AMERICAN
SONGS
Beautiful Dreamer (Canção de Stephen Foster / Arr. David Krane)
Lovely
Jimmie (Jerome Kern)
Food
for Thought (Heitor Villa-Lobos de “Magdalena”)
ROSSINI Riedi al soglio (Zelmira)
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