Out of full throat

Uff, I´m going through my schedule for this week and starting to get stressed. Tomorrow it´ll be a first lesson - online French at 10.00 and the last one it´s singing at 18.00 at the other side of Vienna. The whole day will be almost without a break. But one lesson better than the other one. Most of them are already in person, no more Zoom, so I feel that my motivation is back. Since my last blog it is already more than a half of a year and many things have happened. But let´s start at the beginning:
 In the January, after a long time of the online studies a crisis came - singing and psychical. (hah, it´s actually funny, that I´m having my crisis every year. Without these blogs I wouldn’t notice.)
It was a quite depressive time for me, we had a small class concert – just professor and her students and I sung so badly. My voice cracked and it was the first time I really was about to start crying. No motivation, no concerts with audience, no feedback, no energy – just a long time of working without result and without the effect. But, as I know already, such a bad time never last long, and neither did that time. I´m such a workaholic, just like my mother, so if the work doesn´t find me, I´ll fin it! So we finished our project in radio in Olomouc in the end of Jannuary (we were recording our song cycle  “Women, beer and singing” which I wrote the poems to - I already wrote about it in my last blog).
Afterwards we started to rehears the opera Ariadne auf Naxos at the university, I got sick – Covid came. Luckily for me, I was in the bed just for 3 days and afterwards I felt quite well. But the quarantine lasted for 2 weeks.... what to do in an empty appartement just by myself? Well, I wrote a theatre play which´s premiere will take place next year at our students festival Classfest. I can´t wait.
 I also asked my good friend – pianist and painter to do illustrations and create together a poetry book together. And so we will!  
With some work to do I am always happier! As a Christmas present I got equipment for painting, so I started to paint. I´m a seriously bad painter, but the process is really relaxing and that´s what I need sometimes. And I´m still singing a lot, and I feel much better in it! Better times are here!

 Last week we had the premiere of the Ariadne – it was beautiful. After a long time to stand on the stage and do some art with orchestra is the best feeling I know!
 But one project is over, another one is coming! In the second half of June I will rehearse another opera in Prague – with singers form National theatre – I feel unbelievable. It will be great experience!       In the summer there will be, hopefully, a baroque masterclass I applied for and than a golden moment of my summer – ClassFest! Our art festival. This year we will make much more than last year! A theatre play, two baroque concerts, jazz evening and premiere of a new founded opera by Giuseppe Scarlatti, which was mad in last 300 years just twice. And now we are doing it as well. Fantastic.
 I´m not running anymore as intensive as I did last year, I´m lazier and don´t have enough time... Not that you should by anyhow interested, I´m just writing it for myself to feel ashamed! Otherwise I´m really trying to stay positive tuned. The best thing is to make fun and make people laugh. On the stage or in the bar. The humour is the only way how to survive without psychological damage. Humour and work. So let´s work with humour!