Saturday, June 5, 2010

Taos Opera Institute

Andrew and I had the opportunity to go to Taos New Mexico for 4 weeks in June. We had to audition and be accepted into the program. We worked on four aria or songs from operas in four different languages. French, Italian, German, (or Russian) and English. Andrew and I with Linda Poetsche the Program director.
Mary Jane Johnson is the artistic director of the program. During the week we had lessons and coachings with teaches from Chicago, ASU, Texas, and New York. It was great to work with so many different people and to meet so many different people.
We feel like we learned so much and grew a lot while we were there. It was a great opportunity to focus just on singing and performing and to not have to worry about too much else.
We performed at different venues every weekend on Fridays and Saturdays. These pictures are in Rhoda's a restaurant a busy place in the winter while all of the skiers are there but a somewhat slower place in the summer.
This is a view from our condo ( and Nathan) in the Taos ski valley. It was so beautiful and peaceful to be in the mountains in the summertime. It was really interesting to see the ski lifts and runs without any snow. They look a lot scarier without the snow.

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