Greetings,

I'm looking forward to performing Bluebeard this fall
in Oakland, California. It was quite a suprise
finding out about the San Francisco Conservatory
performance just a couple of years ago! We ("Shoebox
Opera") are also doing a chamber performance, that is,
with piano, and will start rehearsing in July. The
venue will be the Chapel of the Chimes, a columbarium
designed by Julia Morgan whose chapel, I noticed while
performing La serva padrona, has seven doors.
Amyrose McCue Gil will sing Judith and Skye Altman is
the pianist. In the meantime, I'm making Hungarian
flashcards, reading, adding bits to the wikipedia
articles, and hunting for non-singing translations,
which are harder to come by than I expected.

Of course it would be too much to hope for a book like
Timothy Cheek's Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech
Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire very soon when
we're still waiting for it's like on Russian, but
have any of you come across a useful chapter or
footnote somewhere on sung versus spoken Hungarian?

And have any of you explored the opus 15 & 16 songs?
They are a bit hard to come by on record...

Richard Mix



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