If I never did anything new, I’d still be:
- Working at Fleet Mortgage Corp. as a customer service rep
- Living in Waukesha in a townhouse I didn’t really want to buy in the first place with my first husband
- Singing in the Florentine Opera chorus
- Dreaming of doing more with my life
I wouldn’t have:
- Moved to DC in the first place
- Sung with Washington Opera
- Moved to Baltimore to go to Peabody (which involved leaving my first husband)
- Met and married my second husband
- Moved back to Milwaukee (there are some quibbles about that but…)
- Sung in Chicago with Lyric and other groups
- Become a voice teacher
- Started my blog
- Run a 5K (twice)
- Started singing cabaret
- Moved back to Baltimore
- Sung in New York
- Opened Mezzoid Voice Studio
- Started the Curiously Stronger Performing series of workshops
- Met an incredible number of phenomenal friends, colleagues, and students (and students who became colleagues, colleagues who became friends, etc.)
I would have been:
- Unhappy
- Unfulfilled
- Incurious
I am now:
- Happy
- Fulfilled but looking for more ways to branch out
- Still curious

What are you afraid to try?
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Christine Thomas-O'Meally, a mezzo soprano and voice teacher currently based in the Baltimore-DC area, has performed everything from the motets of J.S. Bach to the melodies of Irving Berlin to the minimalism of Philip Glass.
As an opera singer and actress, she has appeared with companies such as Charm City Players, Spotlighters Theatre, Chicago Opera Theater, Opera Theater of Northern Virginia, Opera North, the Washington Savoyards, In Tandem Theatre, Windfall Theater, The Young Victorian Theater of Baltimore, and Skylight Opera Theatre. She created the role of The Woman in Red in Dominick Argento’s Dream of Valentino in its world premiere with the Washington Opera and Mary Pickersgill in O'er the Ramparts at its world premiere during the Bicentennial of Battle of Baltimore at the Community College of Baltimore County. Other roles include Mrs. Paroo in Music Man, Mother Abbess in Sound of Music, Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, both Hansel and the Witch in Hansel & Gretel, and many roles in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. Her performance as the Housekeeper in Man of La Mancha was honored with a WATCH award nomination.
Ms. Thomas-O'Meally received an M.M. in vocal performance from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. She regularly attends master classes and workshops in both performance and vocal pedagogy, and is certified in all three Levels of Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method. Her students have performed on national and international tours of Broadway productions, at prestigious conservatories, and in regional theater throughout the country.
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