Well the news of the day is that I have bonded with Desperate Opera Wife, a fellow opera blogger who is married to a former member of the COT Young Artists program and now living in Germany where he is a valued member of the Bavarian State Opera company. I have been linking to her website for some time. She promised to have a new post up this evening but as yet there is nothing. I hope she did not fall off her bicycle on her way home after a most enjoyable hour spent in the bar of my hotel. Her husband had an orchestral rehearsal this evening but I hope to meet up with them both again tomorrow. There are excellent American singers working all over Europe. But few, if any, are more of an adornment to their cities, in this case Munich, than this couple. I am happy if COT made even a small contribution to improving life in Munich!
We met up this evening with the Bertelsmann team - the same group that made auditions here last time, in 2005, such a pleasure. These are our two pianists - Peter Nelson and Celine Dutilly, stalwart contributors to Neue Stimmen for many years now.
I am now going to have an early night. Its only 10.15 - but a long day tomorrow.
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