English 4- Blog 2

 Everything I am going to write happened at the Teatro Universidad de Concepción, in 2014 on August 29 and 30, you may ask why 2 days, the answer is simple, because it was a double presentation of an opera in which I had to sing.

The opera in which I participated is called Carmen, by the composer Georges Bizet, and on this occasion it was conducted by a Canadian conductor named Julian Kuerti.

The opportunity to sing in this opera came about because I belonged to the choir of the Salesian school, and because of a competition between schools we had to compete to see who could participate. The interesting thing about the competition was that we had to sing in French, so an external teacher from our school had to come and teach us the lyrics and pronunciation.

The atmosphere in the presentation was very quiet, only the orchestra could be heard, the silences were really silent.

When it came to singing, I felt confident, since there were several of us in the choir, so we helped each other, the only fear was going out of tune, but that had improved in the singing lessons.

A funny memory for me was that before entering the stage I started sweating too much and a mother of the children in the choir told me that next time I should put flour under my armpits. 

It was a very nice experience, plus the opera is very beautiful and enjoyable.

Thank you very much for reading.