Studying, Munich, Florence…

Hi there! I hope you are well. This week was a calm but full of new ideas and lots of thinking. Now that I came back from Japan and still processing all what I experienced over a month there, I am coming back to my reality in Germany.

I am writing this blog from Florence, Italy. I just flew in, yesterday I travelled to Munich where I slept over in a hotel near the central station and then this morning took a train to the airport and landed here in Florence around 2pm. Since then, I checked in and went for a walk around the city, Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio, Ponte Vecchio, some piazzas, etc. Already go something very Fiorentino, Lampredotto, you should google it, I am sure it is not for everyone but I liked it. In Mexico we would call it a “torta de pancita”, more or less.

Tomorrow afternoon I will meet Jossi Wieler, ex Intendent from Stuttgart and my boss when I was there at the Studio. I did with him Osud by Leoš Janáček. I had very good memories working with him. We will meet at the airport and then rent a car and drive to Castello Montalto, where the wedding of my dear friend Verena Stoiber will be celebrated. I am looking forward to this, my mini adventure to Italy. This year is my third time here. The previews time in Bologna and Parma for the classes with maestro Bruson, now the wedding and I have the feeling I will be back soon again, just a feeling.

Working this week on some of my repertoire has be really useful, specially preparing 2 arias for the wedding of Verena, the Fenton aria from Faltaff and Prendi l’anel ti dono… from “La sonnambula” by Bellini.  At the same time I am reading a very interesting book translation by the very great mind of Jeanette Favaro Rueter, “The development of the singing voice” by Franziska Martienssen- Lohmann. It is a very refreshing approach to singing and I believe more and more on my on process as well on the whole idea of singing being really holistic. I would take sometime to explain myself, but you can for now google this lady and she has several books. Most of them in German, I do not know if there are other translations to her works. This book it  was given to me by Jeanette who has been a recent and a very important guide on my journey as a singer.

I keep doing my daily pages, daily reading of Holiday and Tolstoi, plus my 4 times a week routine exercise. Take care and see you next week.