Der Rosenkavalier

I just got an email today offering me the chance to be a super in one of this summer's opera productions. It's a 4-hour long German comedy/melodrama by Strauss, which I must confess I've never seen, as I've usually shied away from 4-hour long German operas.

Parts were offered to me in all three acts, so that would mean long hours in the basement of the opera house waiting for my fleeting moments onstage in the spotlight. The glamorous roles are: Carpet Vendor, Courier#4 and Policeman. Really stretching my acting chops! ;-)

I jumped at the chance, silly me, even though I'm seriously anxious about a few relatively minor schedule conflicts and also about the overall extremely non-pragmatic and ambivalently conflicted choices I've been making in my work/money/career life.

I was led to reflect on how many years I've been facing this dilemma: since I first started supering back in 1995. I counted: I've been in 26 productions, sometimes the same opera in different years or different runs in the same season. Plus a couple of stray ballets, plays, film extra work and GlinkAppearances.

I like to play dress-up. NO, REALLY????!!!!????? We never realized that, Alb./Grove/Glinka! So I cannot say no when the oppportunity arises.

I just wish that I could figure out some flexible, decent paying work to do to support this avocation. Ahh, and one that doesn't involve trapping myself in some stuffy office...

Depressed Diptych Detail

This was another assignment from class, just more or less completed. We could do a diptych or a triptych on any subject. The main benefit of this assignment was that I learned how to spell diptych. (image semi-deliberately warped by Camera-Phone Pic--I have GOT to upgrade my computer/camera set-up!)

The other side of the diptych is happier and yellower but still with some blue depressed streaks. It doesn't feel as resolved as this side.

btw, this is one of those that you can see in better (if still blurry) detail when you click on the image.

I'm wondering if I should update all y'all on anything that happened in my life since late November when I was last regularly posting? There are one or two items of note. I'm still thinking about what I want this blog to focus on anymore... The one thing I mainly feel like sharing about is my artwork, and any other creative stuff I do or see, because I'm really trying to get some traction with it. Other stuff seems more private at the moment.

We shall see...

Testing the waters again...

I am still alive. Hi everyone. I am a bored person at the moment, so maybe I should start blogging again? Besides, I have nowhere else to ramble on about Re:Ality TV!

I have been lurking, here and elsewhere. (Krobbie)

I am still painting. No theater or opera or Madame G.

I'm kind of afraid to post this. I'm going through some depression right now, which sucks-- maybe writing here would help?

There is no way for this not to be kind of awkward. I'm not even sure how I feel about blogging. The comment-whoring of AOL Journal days seems so long ago!

Well, maybe I'll give it another try.