physical manifestation

I have been really preoccupied with "A Christmas Carol" recently, which opened last weekend with moderate success. I have been really physically and financially exhausted since then. Right now I have a sinus infection that is seriously holding me back.

It takes so much energy...we do these exercises to emphasize the gesture and the line of the phrase. It feels like swimming, I'm moving my body and arms around so much. She calls it physical manifestation...and apparently does it a lot in her own repertoire training. I used to do stuff like that when I was in high school. I haven't really done it since then. I guess it helps keep everything legato. But it does help perpetuate the energy.

Keeping mental placement has been especially difficult recently. In this show, I am singing in a legit music theatre style and belting in the second act, considering I am playing two different characters. And I haven't really been listening to any opera repertoire recently. I think there really is a mindset that you have to be in, where to place the voice and all that. Listen to opera, think opera.

But anyways...a good voice lesson, sickness aside.

I need to find a French aria and English one too.