Australia Audition Update
I record for my audition in one day and I! Am! So! Excited!
I am also especially excited because I KNOW Iām ready for this!!! Iām in top condition, I have one last rehearsal with my accompanist before work tomorrow, then Iāve taken all of Tuesday off just to be able to focus on this recording and this recording alone.
I am DETERMINED to get into this choir, I want to perform at the Sydney Opera House so badly, so Iāve put my all into learning this piece.
As Iāve mentioned before, my audition piece is Il Mio Bel Foco in A Minor by Benedetto Marcello. Itās a song of undying love and faith, where the singer is professing that their flame for the recipient will never fade, and how their love is true to their light alone, however far they may go. Taking note of what professorās have told me from previous voice juries, Iāve been sure to experiment with the speeds and flow of the piece, giving it a natural rise and fall with each section, as Iāve been told I need to have more rhythmic contrast between sections. Iād like to think Iām singing it similar to how a wave flows on the ocean; a slow buildup, a crashing speed, then a recoil back, readying for the next crest.
During one of my rehearsals the other day, for the first time I felt myself truly immerse in the song, not too focused on getting every Italian syllable correct, nor worrying over my conducting to my accompanist, but all I felt was the music. We rehearse in a church, and this was the first time in days that we had seen the sun amidst a flurry of rain and storms. I never knew which way the light slanted through the stained glass windows in the morning until that day; a beautiful rainbow of light broke through a cloud, falling upon myself and the piano. With every shadow was an outline of red and blue on its dark edges, a splendor of greens and oranges spilling onto my open sheet music; it was breathtaking, and helped me to truly articulate the emotion of the piece, for I longed for that moment of colour once more, and knew no other experience had been as this before. I honestly wish I had been recording my rehearsal then- it was the most perfect run through of the song we had done ever.
Now when I sing this song, I remind myself of that brilliant painting of lights, what I felt when the shine fell over me, and I make my want for another such instance known in my singing.
Iām ready to begin this final leg of this journey- let us hope that Australia is where it is taking me.
