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From:  Mezzoid@a...
Date:  Sat Sep 2, 2000  4:19 pm
Subject:  Good news!


I wanted to wait to post this until I had contracts in hand, but they came
yesterday, so here I go:

I've been cast as Pilar in Hiram Titus' ROSINA (a sequel to MARRIAGE OF
FIGARO) at the Skylight Opera Theater here in Milwaukee. It is the comic
role of the landlady - haven't received the score yet, so I don't know just
how much I have to sing, but it's a weekly salaried role as opposed to the
chorus hourly wage/per performance fee, so it's obviously not a role that
doubles as chorus (better check the contract just to make sure). Rehearsals
start 2/26, we open 3/23 (I think) and close 4/8.

I also received a call from the Milwaukee Symphony this week asking me to
sing in a trio for a pops concert to be held 10/21-22-23. We will be singing
Jerome Kern's "Bojangles in Harlem".

The great thing about both of these gigs was that I received phone calls
without any warning from the companies - I did not audition for either of
these jobs, and in fact, Skylight declined to hear me this year at both their
fall and spring auditions (which depressed me greatly at the time). The
second job was a referral from a director for whom I did a freebie last
summer in an Irving Berlin revue (she's also one of the singers in the trio).


It has taken 4 years for me to be cast in an opera with an existing company
in this city (I did Dorabella last year with a company just starting out). I
just feel so relieved!!!

Christine Thomas, Mezzo Soprano
Wauwatosa, WI

"Humility is the acceptance of the possibility that someone else can teach
you something else you do not know already, especially about yourself.
Conversely, pride and arrogance close the door of the mind."
-- Arthur Deikman, The Observing Self

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