30 June 2026
Fellow teachers, don’t make my mistake: before assigning an old libretto, read it yourselves first!
Especially if it says “make love” every other line…
Vocal coaching for Falla’s “El amor brujo”
Language coaching
Coaching Russian pronunciation for Prokofiev’s “Alexander Nevsky”
28 March 2025
“Rise, Russians, to a glorious war, to a mortal war!”—our incredible choir sang to me this morning, as I dutifully coached their pronunciation.
“Are you bloody kidding me?!”—said my brain, my heart, and every fiber of my being, before I lost it and worked the whole session in tears.
I don’t know what’s worse—the war itself, the world’s attempts to stop it, or the quiet horror of us simply getting used to it.
Masterpiece of music. Nightmare of a text. Phenomenal choir work (gracias chicos ❤️). And one devastated pianist.
Busy non-opera days: recitals, coaching and chamber music
9 December 2023
9 days, 6 recitals, 3 different programs with members of the orchestra of Palau de les Arts and with my students of Centre de Perfeccionament (plus intensive Czech coaching to our hardworking choir and page turning for @juliusdrakepiano who seemed to be very satisfied with my page turning skills 😁): done! It was a beautiful journey with @iriagoti @thomas.vinals @mikhail_spivak_violin #arneneckelmann #hyewonryu #abrahammartin and #davidmolina