Rehearsal.
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That’s about as distant a handshake as you can get, I guess.
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From the looks on the faces of the judges, it looks as if Connie has made them see a bit of the lux perpetua.
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Rivals meet in the hallway outside. Someone needs to take better charge of scheduling these things.
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“Deliver me O Lord from eternal death on that terrible day when the heavens and earth shall be moved, when you come to judge the world by fire. I am made to tremble and I fear…” Yep, sounds like an audition to me.
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The blind audition. Always terrifying.
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And a distinguished past musician enters into the picture.
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And we enter again into Tanya’s interesting fantasy life.
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Meanwhile Tanya Yip finds some music to relax to.
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Meanwhile, Connie Morton seems to be getting vocally formidable (though one always sounds better in the shower).
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For those among you who haven’t been to the opera in a while, she’s singing “Quando me’n vo'” from Puccini’s La bohème. And if you’re curious about what it’s like for real, here is a clip of one of my childhood opera crushes Lucia Popp singing it in a production at La Scala in 1979.