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Opera répétiteur life: our 2024-25 Opera Studio gang

Posted on 15.05.202526.07.2026 by Paolina

15 May 2025

Often, one of the opera repetiteur’s duties is looking after opera studio students in between productions, and I honestly love doing it.
Look at these young artists.
They ask questions that would never come to my mind, let alone the answers.
They see and rebel against every bit of bullshit in this world, and refuse to accept that this is the reality.
Their generation doesn’t have the problems we had, but they have and deal with many others we have no idea about.
They make mistakes, and they have the courage to admit them and to learn from them.
They are incredibly talented and somehow so often completely unaware of it.
Wherever they end up professionally, they are my inspiration, my hope, and my pride.
#grateful

2024-2025 gang:
Soprano Antonella Zanetti @antozanetti._
Soprano Nuada Le Drève @nuada.ledreve
Soprano Holly Brown #HollyBrown
Mezzo-soprano Laura Fleur @laurafleurmezzo
Mezzo-soprano Ester Ferraro @ester.ferraro
Tenor Filipp Modestov @fmodestov
Tenor Pablo Rubín-Jurado #pablorubinhurado
Baritone Bryan Sala @bryansala_baritono
Baritone Daniel Gallegos @daniel.gallegos.glez
Bass-baritone Irakli Pkhaladze @iraklipkhaladze
Opéra répétiteur Weronika Mackiewicz @weromacki
Opéra répétiteur & Kapellmeister Leonardo Moyano @leonardo.moyano.pianist

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The benefits of private teaching

Posted on 10.05.202526.07.2026 by Paolina

10 May 2025

When your student’s wolfdog meets Newton—and they have a whole yard to run and play in while I’m teaching #australianshepherd #czechoslovakianwolfdog #happydogmom

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Ravel’s “L’heure espagnole” mystery (resolved!)

Posted on 05.05.202526.07.2026 by Paolina

5 May 2025

(!!Nerd Alert!!)
The performances of an absolutely stunning new production by @mosheleiser and #patricecaurier are over, but I still haven’t figured out the point of one phrase in L’heure espagnole and. it. drives. me. crazy:

IÑIGO
Coucou !…
CONCEPCIÓN (rageuse)
L’allusion est de haut goût,
Par Saint Jacques de Compostelle !

Excuse me, what now? Saint James?? Why??? Ravel doesn’t do random. What am I missing?!
Leaving this here as a scream into the universe, just in case some Ravel specialist stumbles across it one day…
#ExistentialOperaQuestions#Ravel#geeky

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Polina Bogdanova - pianist/harpsichord player in Wolfgang Rihm's "Jakob Lenz", Bremen (Germany)
Polina Bogdanova - pianist during the master-class in La Monnaie, Brussels (photo by Hugo Segers)
Polina Bogdanova - pianist in Franck's piano quintett, Flagey (Brussels)
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