Acis & Galatea (20 & 21 October 2007)
Hi everybody! I will take the chance to advertise the chamber opera that I am performing in, Handel's Acis and Galatea, this coming Sunday (21 Oct 07) 5pm at Singapore Art Museum Auditorium.
What is chamber opera? It is simply a small-scale opera in every sense of the adjective...shorter, performed in a small hall, limited staging, limited acting. Our Singapore Lyric Opera does BIG BIG BIG operas! Singapore hasn't seen much of chamber operas...so this is a niche operastudio is trying to fill!
I will be playing the role of Damon, Acis' sidekick...basically telling everybody what they ought to do. This will be my first operatic role! Though not a very comfortable one for me initially as Damon is cast as a tenor....when I am not really a tenor (maybe not yet?)...hmmm...not too sure what my fach really is...
Took me months' of work to be comfortable with the tessitura of the two arias that I am singing... Finally, I think everything is in place. And I am glad I took up this challenge, without which I won't have made audible improvement! If you are free, please do come! Contact me for tickets at rimb97@yahoo.com.sg.
But if you are tight on budget (this opera is $25 bucks!) or time, then I would prefer you come to Love & Live III, as my air-time in the recital is at least three times greater than in the opera.
Check it out at everyone's fave encyclopaedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acis_and_Galatea.
What is chamber opera? It is simply a small-scale opera in every sense of the adjective...shorter, performed in a small hall, limited staging, limited acting. Our Singapore Lyric Opera does BIG BIG BIG operas! Singapore hasn't seen much of chamber operas...so this is a niche operastudio is trying to fill!
I will be playing the role of Damon, Acis' sidekick...basically telling everybody what they ought to do. This will be my first operatic role! Though not a very comfortable one for me initially as Damon is cast as a tenor....when I am not really a tenor (maybe not yet?)...hmmm...not too sure what my fach really is...
Took me months' of work to be comfortable with the tessitura of the two arias that I am singing... Finally, I think everything is in place. And I am glad I took up this challenge, without which I won't have made audible improvement! If you are free, please do come! Contact me for tickets at rimb97@yahoo.com.sg.
But if you are tight on budget (this opera is $25 bucks!) or time, then I would prefer you come to Love & Live III, as my air-time in the recital is at least three times greater than in the opera.
Check it out at everyone's fave encyclopaedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acis_and_Galatea.
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