Charlotte

tiny opera-singing lawyer. she/her/elle. RTs = 📚, in 🇺🇸/🇫🇷

[Charlotte @BiadeMedici]

@wetropolitan Not sure about heat per se but had a conductor comment once after a tough rehearsal on a freak 80-degree day in Feb that humidity definitely can impact intonation

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@20002ist 😬😬

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We sopranos need to team up and find the 19th-century colleague who pissed off Ludwig van Beethoven. Thanks, girl #ninthsymphony

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@20002ist Okay but this goes so hard

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@Derrick_NYC okay but they should put a bench in the station

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20-minute wait at rush hour for a downtown F, severe menstrual cramps and not a bench in sight to sit on a Lexington Ave-53rd Street 😭 @NYCTSubway hello

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pov: singing Bach when you are a dumbass who can’t keep track of the accidentals

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I’m a Baroque and early-music soprano with a church background. Probably won’t be the first time I hear this. But as someone who doesn’t do this professionally, and so doesn’t get routine positive feedback in the form of $/people hiring me, remarks like this fuck with my head

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I’m still angry about this so I’m going to tweet something that should be absolutely obvious: if your musical duties involve hearing avocational musicians in an evaluative or audition context, you need to be exceptionally careful and thoughtful in how you give feedback

[Charlotte @BiadeMedici]

✅: I hear a lot of tension that’s constricting your sound, working on that will help open things up
❌: it’s a very small voice, so I’m not sure it would add much. (Then, in a followup email) I would suggest seeking out a smaller ensemble. For your small voice

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and honestly I'm grateful because now I'm fully just like ✌️ their loss ✌️

[Charlotte @BiadeMedici]

lol I got nasty audition feedback but sort of an equivocal PFO so I sent a followup and got an EVEN NASTIER response

[Charlotte @BiadeMedici]

why did my brain do this

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Domine Deus, Mass in B Minor, BWV 232, Johann Sebastian Bach (1748-1749)

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Your moment of magic ✨

[Charlotte @BiadeMedici]

@CressNC agree. this is Connecticut

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Charlotte Remember How To Sight Read Anglican Chant Challenge 💀

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lmao I just sang my first Brahms Requiem and my voice haaaated that. so maybe not a soprano 1 yet

[Charlotte @BiadeMedici]

I did it!!

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