It’s been almost a week since we finished our run of David MacIntyre’s Love In Public.  It was a great time and such a treat to have 10 performances of a new work.  It’s a short run for the musical theatre world, but for the opera/art song world, it’s nothing short of amazing.  I felt like the show really settled and new discoveries were made right up until the very end.  Every night each of us would get walloped by the beautiful words of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.  I think what I enjoyed most though was having conversations with grown-ups every evening.  It’s been hard to go back to spending all day talking to a one-year-old:  “Don’t eat the cat-litter!”  “Will you PLEASE eat something?” “Stop flushing the toilet!”.  Yup.  Combine that with the never ending cycle of diaper changing and washing and it makes for a glamorous life.

I’m moving ahead.  In one week’s time I have a concert with the Bach Choir for Mother’s Day.  I had no time to practice the repertoire during the run of LIP, mostly because I was fighting a sore throat and cough for the last 6 shows.  So now it’s a bit of a rush to get everything learned.  It’s going to be a wonderful mix of music though.  We’re doing the fifth movement of the Brahms Requiem, Schubert’s Mirjam’s Siegesgesang, Dvorak’s Songs my Mother Taught Me, Strauss’ Morgen and Vilja Lied from The Merry Widow as a little treat. I’m looking forward to it!  Now if someone wants to come over and babysit for a few hours every day so I can properly learn this music, I’d be in great shape!