Entering the cave

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek” –Joseph Campbell Tonight is the opening night of Three Decembers at Winnipeg’s Little Opera Company and this past week has been a rollercoaster of doubt, fear, excitement, triumph,...

No shortcuts

One more stream to ford (Kimberly Barber, April 2021) I’m not sure why I thought it would be trouble-free to return to rehearsing live opera after a 5 year hiatus…seriously! What was I thinking?!?! The last major production I did was for Tapestry Opera in...

Proud Mama

Me and my gals: Magic Flute Opening Night, May 6, 2022 (from left: KB, Midori Marsh, Jamie Groote–photo Anna Ronai) So…not sure if I should say it, given all the talk about boundaries in recent posts. But I can’t help myself: I am so proud of these...

A fine line

A fine line (April, 2022) Singing is vulnerable stuff. And as it turns out, teaching singing is pretty vulnerable stuff too. Teaching and learning are such deeply integrative processes that it is sometimes difficult to discern where the line between them is. The...