As I indicated previously, this was a long year, and I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. So I’ve decided that I’m taking a break.
Not from teaching, although I have condensed my schedule significantly, and not from singing, although there won’t be that much of it during the summer.
I’ve decided that this summer is going to be spent getting some things together. I want to tweak my website, I want to organize my life a bit better, I’m planning some remodeling, and I’m having (joy of joys) eye surgeries in July.
I’m going to take a break from writing every Tuesday and Thursday, and just writing when I have something to say.
(Of course, I always seem to have something to say, but I don’t want to have to feel obligated to do it on particular days. I don’t want to think about SEO, or keywords, or anything besides what’s in front of me.)
I know that I will be writing about:
the upcoming house concert that I’m hosting for Emma Langford on August 12
the NATS 2022 Conference in Chicago, for which I am departing next Thursday
how excited I am about some new opportunities I am considering
And I’m sure that other things will come up. And maybe I’ll write more often than 2x/week if something tickles my fancy, or maybe I’ll skip a week here and there until the fall.
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If you are interested in finding out how you can work with me this summer (and beyond), please contact me!
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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