Glitter and be gay candide

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Hello everyone wishing you all a pleased June. I’d prefer to start this week by thanking the fantastically talented George Todica who unleashed his brilliance on piano during my final recital at the Royal College of Song and kept me calm and sane in the days before the recital on Monday morning, even suggesting using print shop when my trusty printer wouldn’t work on Sunday!

I had to dash off after the performance and a quick lunch with friends and family to Croydon on the other side of London to start rehearsals with Surrey Opera https://www.surreyopera.org/  for their production of Bernstein’s ‘Candide’ and my role as Cunegonde.  I’d spent some time getting the role ready before the rehearsals and with the deal of my brilliant singing teacher Rosa Mannion and terrific coach Simon Lepper I put ‘Glitter and Be Gay’ as the terminal aria in my recital which after 40 minutes of near continuous singing was quite a high note to ask my voice to end on!

Bernstein was mentioned in the conductor Marin Alsop’s interview I’d read when I was reading up on Women in Music, he was her mentor and teacher. She credited him with this piece of counsel ‘morality is very si