A New Direction for this Blog... and my Life

I have spent the last 8 years working away at being an opera director. It has led me into all kinds of projects, from adapting shows for kids in Florida to premiering experimental shows in Texas to directing Shakespeare in California!

Today, I’m getting ready to leave all of that behind. Why? I lost my way. I lost my direction.

Now, you may be thinking that a director losing direction is kind of funny, maybe even a great example of irony. But really, I lost direction a long time ago.

You see, my dream was always to become an opera singer, and that is core to who I am. Opera lives at the nexus point of music and storytelling, and that’s me in totality! However, I gave up on that dream as a result of bad self-talk and bad experiences in the conservatory system. Directing was a way out of a hard place, and it involved part of my core passion: a director tells stories. A director gets to work with musicians, but a director does not make music. And so half of me felt unfulfilled.

A person can only go so long without meeting their full set of needs, and mine includes singing.

I am going to write another post exploring the post-conservatory experience, and then I will be bringing you along on the journey of a 34-year-old singer embarking on a career in opera. Along the way, I’m going to share what I’m learning, in hopes that it is helpful to someone else on their own journey. Who knows where we will end up!

Stay in tune…