So, I just sent in my application for The Metropolitan Opera. It's unlikely that I'll get it, but I simply would like to be invited to audition. Lol, I feel like I've been out of the game for so long, it makes me worried that maybe it's been TOO long. I'm too old for the Young Artist Programs, now. I've been out of practice for almost 10 years. I've gained weight. I simply don't exude the characteristics of what I consider an artist anymore. But you know what? No time like the present to jump back on. Slowly but surely, I've been sending myself out there for auditions, small roles, little projects, just things that I can put under my belt, projects I enjoy, and theatre that I think is worthwhile. I still have that big dream out there though. Singing for cruise ships, doing studio work, getting background tour gigs. I don't want the limelight. I just want to get paid to sing and pay my cell phone bill, lol! So I'm going to restart this blo...
One morning, natural as the air she unfolded the limbs that threaded through velvet lowlands under a hush crying moon. Arms that once wrung soured water into careless dirt lifted themselves brown in the white heat of noon. She swelled her shoulders narrowed by half shade tenement cells and from a cavern that drank a million suns, a voice that roamed all the Gehennas of earth and spirit rode out on a sweet wind and she was singing. ~Maxine Clair