stend, stend, stend,

shut an interresting lyfe yu muss leeds.

akshooly, ahm nawt far behind yoo.

hay gascat……did joo get teh linkz ai sended u ???

whai yiss ai deed, ai njoyeded eet emmensly, ai tink our drumline cud lern menny tings frum taht top secret drum corp.

oh an bai teh wai stend, crazy train is (i’m told) one of my marchin’ bands signature songs, that and teh tuba cheer.

Reelee? (ai wuzn’t going to menshun teh “m s” - is, afterawl, as u sai Loltalian). Ai has sung Donna Anna, but ai can also do Zerlina.

Vorrei, e non vorrei. . .hmmm - ai mite hav to la la la a bit. Mai vocal score is at mai haus in town and ai am heer at mai Mom’s haus (with the beeg red barn) in teh countree!.

OK. La ci darem la mano, la mi dirai di si. (taht’s u, ov corse)
Vedi, non e lontano, partiam, ben mio, da qui.

Ai wud luv to do sum duets with u. Ai has never traied it liek this! Teh werds are slowlee retruning to mai brayn.

Srry to bust in on teh duet…….. frm Don Giovanni? Not fan: my Grampa (Papa) used to sing opera… and dat sounds familoliar…. go on, go on! Sounds nice!

*gets comfy in chare*

Wai thank u so much, 3heathens. But u must bee a bit ov a fan. Iz yur Grampa sumwun we wud know?

Ai’m sorree to say taht ai’m still strugglin a bit wif mai werds! Almoast there - just teasing around the ejus ov mai brayn. We cud skip to teh end - with the “andiam, andiam mio bene, a ristorar le pene d’un innocente amor.” but taht maeks it a bit short!

Mai hubbie sez I haz ‘big eers’ - likes all kinds musik… no, Pops sang long long ‘go… when I was a gurl, my Mommeh said I would sing scales wif him in the libbing room! Jes poplolar ’round here - ’bout 30 yrs ago! Bee-u-tiful baritone…. lufffed mai Papa mush… miss him mush! Took me to ‘ La Boehme’ and translated for me when I was a gurl… he’s whai I likeses lots of musik!

(He no nebbar luked like tis kitteh, doh - waz berry happie man! )

Gak! Wrong kiteh!! waz thinkin on dat odder, crabby kitteh!! LOL!

Ai wish moar peepl were liek yur Papa, taekin their liddle kis to teh opera and telling them whuts going awn. It paynes mee so gratelee taht so menee peepl THINK tehy don’t liek teh opera, wehn in fact, if given teh oppotunitee to get to know it, they wud probablee just luv it.

Fur sheer eggsciting theatre, there is reelee nothing liek it. But, ov corse, so menee produkshuns todai are - we calls tehm “eurotrash.” Is no lawnger reel theatre - but teh concept ov teh idioot stoopee direktor hoo ushulee duzint know enething abawt opera at awl.

Oooooh - sorree. Ai cud fill up teh next two pajes!! There. Ai’m awl calm again!

No ‘pologies needed! Haffent ben tu opera… or symphonie in tu lawng…. dat sillee ting called ‘life’ keeps inter…. nttur…. gettin’ in da wai! LOL!

A co-wurker liks to think he’z ‘kultured’ and tawks and tawks ’bout seein ‘Cats’ , ‘Le Miserable’ (I HATE it when peeps say ‘Le Miz’! Like dey no it sow wells!) etc…. I toll him onced day he shud go to ‘real’ opera sumtime! (don’t get me wrong - lurve Cats…. jus not de huge produkshin operas!)

He don tawk to me no moar ’bout opera…. LOL!

Whut u say there is so funnee.

Mai sister and ai has season tikkets fur teh Lyric in Shikago. Last monday wuz “Die Frau ohne Schatten.”
We alwayz taek teh trayn frum Meeshgun Citee - is mutch cheeper and eezeer tahn driving in. Awn teh way bak, a women awn the trayn asked us whut we had been doing in Shikago and we sayed we had been to the opera. SHE sayed “Oh, yoo meen ‘Phantom ov the Opera.” (which is currentlee playing in Schicago) an we just laffed an sayed - no, the OPERA,

But - hmmmpf!! NO WUN cawls “Phantom ov the Opera” just “Opera.”!!! Wun just says “Phantom.” Wuz just a hair - condescending - liek yur fellow!

Corse, ai luvs mewsicals as well. Awl theatre, akshullee.

Oh, doctorcat. Ai must tell u. Ai had just turned mai pyooter off fur teh nite - when ai herd (mai Mom is watching a silent moove awn TMC) the minuet taht Donna Anna dances with Giovanni in teh last akt.

Ai no is just coincidence (mai marvelous niece Jennifur alaiz says “but taht whut conicidences ARE!), but ai always finds it just a bit spookee. Happens to mee so offen. Sumtimes within teh MINUTE ov sumthing taht normallee never to rarelee coms up.

Is cosmic harmonee, JCH4K. Dere is onlee wun problem wif us singing La ci darem togevver–I iz mezzo-soprano, too! Can’t have duet wif two Zerlinas.

Is u familiar wif teh Duetto Buffo di due Gatti? Us cud sing dat. (Fur dose hoo don no Loltalian, dat is teh Comic Duet fur Two Cats. Is a howl. Litterally.)

Mah momma an poppa took me to opera wen I wuz a kid–saw Rigoletto an La Traviata. An mah skool useta hab feeld trips to teh Children’s Concerts by teh Boston Symphony. Dose was wunnderful. I wishes ebbery kittn cud has such oppur–opor–chances to lern about teh klassikle moosekick.

Mah poppa hadz teh byootiful barytone. Useta sing La donna e mobile before breffus.

syr ahm layte!

I lyks teh opera 2 - staged tho. Tehres only wun or two i lyks to lissen to wifouwt seein teh akshun play owt (Sonnambula an Orfeo ed Euridice)

ah onlee rly noes teh operas i haf dessined costyooms 4 tho - bel canto moastly. i did a grate Giovanni based on paintings by Goya. teh devvuls whut dragged DonG to hell were from taht famous payting of teh 2 owld laydees on teh balconee - wymens he dun rong!

tah big myoosicals of b’wy r sumtymes teh pleh, butt, as i iz an assissississtants on teh Wikkked, ah muss say: payin mah rent iz vry vry nyce!

Oh - ai sees! ai thot u ment u has a nice baritone voyce - nawt - u needs a nice baritone to sing the duett wif. Confoozilizashun is nao over!

Gud that u r a mezzo - we can has ENDLESS numberz of duets then - menee moar tahn just soprano & baritone! Ai is/wuz (but is fur intertubes purrposes) a lyric coloratura.

Yes - ai knows the DBddG. Ai has the mewsik at mai haus in town. Is grate fun.

ov corse, the werds ar moastlee “Meow.”

yeh, ; ‘miaow’ n ’sssssss’ (ai laiks dat bit).

nuther mezzo heer! caterwailing cross continints…