Nostalgia

Sometimes it's not easy being a singer, working at an opera company where I've previously worked as a singer but now in a non-singing capacity. We've started rehearsals for our festival and this year, more than the previous two that I've worked here, I'm a bit overwhelmed with nostalgia.

First of all we're renovating the theater that we own. My first season as a singer coincided with a previous renovation. So this will represent the third incarnation under my watch and it has been a little emotional to experience.

And now rehearsals have begun for the the first opera that we'll perform in the renovated theater, which just happens to have been the first opera that I performed in the theater. There have been moments in my life that I remember with great clarity and the first sing-thru of Rigoletto in this space is one of them. I stood on the side, listening to our new cast (a very good one by the way) and I almost felt I was back almost 20 years ago (yikes!) at my own first rehearsal.

Life goes on and we all go on our own journey. But for a split second I was back in 1989 and very happy to be there.