Why Music Can Move Us to Tears
3 Steps to Cracking the Casting Director Code
Step 1. Let go of what you can’t control.
And the most challenging part to accept? Most of them are completely out of your control.
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Here are the most common…
- You’re too tall
- You’re too short
- You’re too pretty
- You’re not pretty enough
- You’re too handsome
- You’re not handsome enough
- You’re too fat (…)
Step 2. Focus on doing your best work.
If your audition is good – if it’s highly competitive, complex and specific and you NAIL IT from beginning to end – they will remember you.
Step 3. Don’t kick yourself if you don’t get the part.
You know what often goes hand-in-hand with rejection?
- Self-judgment.
- Anger.
- Despair.
- Negative self-talk.
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Interview: Emanuel Rimoldi, Pianist
Who or what inspired you to take up the piano and pursue a career in music?
I believe I’m a pianist because of a profound instinct which was born in me from the first time I touched a piano. When I began to study it, from the beginning, I knew that there was nothing else I could do in my life.
I even remember how I chose between piano and violin, saying that I like the violin but piano is a part of me.
Who or what were the most important influences on your musical life and career?
Well, I have many who’s because many people and events influenced my musical life:
I had several teachers, some were exceptional, some not so much, but I found all useful somehow because I could understand how I want to play and how I don’t want to play which is actually equal important!
But probably the event that made the biggest change in my playing was encountering the Russian piano school at the Moscow Conservatory where I studied for 5 years under the direction of Elisso Virsaladze.
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Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur
The story begins…
Count Maurizio and the beautiful actress Adriana Lecouvreur fall passionately in love. But their affair is threatened not only by their mutual preoccupation with their respective careers, but by the furious jealousy of the Princesse de Bouillon, Maurizio’s cast-off mistress.
The real story of Adriana
The title role of Cilea’s opera Adriana Lecouvreur is inspired by the 18th-century French actress Adrienne Lecouvreur, one of the greatest tragic actresses of her era, particularly known for her interpretations of Racine’s heroines. While Adrienne did indeed have a long-term love affair with Maurice of Saxony (who had also attracted the attention of the young Duchesse de Bouillon) it is thought that her early death – despite rumours of poisoning – was from natural causes.
Cilea’s greatest hit
Adriana Lecouvreur was the only successful opera by Francesco Cilea, a contemporary of Puccini who, unlike many Italian composers of his generation, was not particularly drawn to verismo opera. Adriana’s premiere in November 1902 at the Teatro Lirico, Milan, met with acclaim from public and press alike, not least because the great tenor Enrico Caruso was singing Maurizio. The opera soon toured internationally, and in recent years has re-entered the regular repertory.
⇒ Adriana Lecouvreur runs 7 February–2 March 2017. Tickets are still available.
The production is a co-production with Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Vienna State Opera, San Francisco Opera and Opéra National de Paris, and is given with generous philanthropic support from The Friends of Covent Garden.
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[News] West Side Story Makes It To A Major US Opera Stage
Houston Grand Opera, announcing its new season, claims to be the first major US opera house to be staging Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story:
West Side Story: Francesca Zambello directs first major American opera house presentation of Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Jerome Robbins’s beloved musical, featuring soprano Andrea Carroll and tenor Norman Reinhardt (April 20–May 6, 2018)
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How the Films of Hayao Miyazaki Work Their Animated Magic
Hear Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters”- solo piano, Scott D. Davis