Today began the "regular" schedule here at AIMS. All of the orchestra members are here, so the chorale will meet at a regular hour (as opposed to 11AM on Sundays) and rehearsals for concerts begin. Weekly voice lessons, stage artistry, diction, audition techniques and vocal coachings also began today.
Mondays through Thursday will be packed for me. I'm attending daily german for both level one and level two. Level one to have a strong foundation on the basics and level two to move forward and keep a fire in my belly to get better. I also have three one-on-one diction lessons this week- two in german and one for both french and italian. It is sufficient to say that this, plus the masterclasses, and endless seminars, I'll come out with a full notebook!
I also stopped by the "operetta room" today. Two lovely ladies are in charge of the operetta concerts here and they basically pick out songs for you, have you learn them and then decide if they want you to perform them or not. They assigned "Leise erklingen Glocken vom Campanile" to me. (a Barcarole song that translates to: softly the bells of the bell tower of Venice ring out). It's beautiful, floaty and fairy tale like. In other words; I'm in love! I get to return to their room tomorrow to sing it for them and get a little coaching on it. (I'll then take it to my German diction coach, a reserved, academic brittish woman with perfect German, on Wednesday to make sure I sound relatively authentic.)
Hopefully I'll be cast to sing something while I'm here, but either way, I'll be plenty busy!
Fortunate as the experience is, the schedule means my sightsinging will be held off until at least Saturday. I've posted a picture I took at the top of the Schlossberg as a reminder that I AM in Graz, not just in a big University building!
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