Happy New Year After a nice vacation and a break from singing, I am back. I took a 3 week break from singing since I had been so busy last year and am now working my voice back into shape. I also noticed that I hadn't updated my schedule at all, so I fixed that this morning.

I am preparing for the Opera Scenes program at Gordon College right now. Even though I am not a student, they let me sing. I get to sing some fun scenes and they have one more tenor to work with, so it is a fair trade.

Next month is going to be busy as well. I have a concert each weekend. One is with Lakes Region Opera, a part that I won from the Opera Idol competition, and the other is with Mass Theatrica. I am very fortunate that the first two concerts have the same rep, so I don't need to pound different music into my head each week. The end of February has the Gordon Opera Scenes program traveling up to Vermont to perform for a crowd of Opera North supporters. We get that opportunity because Ron Luchsinger, who is the artistic director at Opera North and Commonwealth Opera, directs the scenes at Gordon.

The vacation was a wonderful and much need rest. We got to visit our family's on Christmas and the week surrounding it. I had a minor mishap and blew up our old computer, so on New Years Day I had to order parts and build a new one, which is running faster the 80% of computers benchmarked with 3d Mark Pro 2006 I might add. All in all, things are going well. I do not have an extremely busy spring lineup, which will give me time to work on technique and get ready for some bigger competitions this fall.

- Gregory - ¶ 10:07 AM