connecting to a spirit.

Last night I performed the role of Galatea in Handel's Acis and Galatea. For those who are not familiar with what that last sentence means it's a early english opera, heavy on the solos with not that many pieces for the chorus, a good piece of music in places. 

Can you hear my lack of enthusiasm? 

I have been discovering all sorts of things about 'my style' and how I feel about all sorts of things in the world. To add to the whole list of realisations over the past few months I had another one last night stood in a church in East Ham with my full length black velvet ball gown singing Galatea with a large number of my colleges accompanying. I do not connect to this style of English music, and believe me I have been trying to find something I love about it.

A few weeks ago I sang at the staff concert. I sang a beautiful Bellini aria from Monticetti e Capuletti (romeo and juliet) and even though I completely lost my way half way through, I was wearing scruffy clothes and had been sat in the office all day before hand, I felt elated.