Mozart | Ian Sidden

Opera Scenes: Mozartiana

Last night, the Dona Ana Lyric Opera’s (DALO) Opera Workshop presented its Fall opera scenes program. I have been helping Prof. Zimmerman with the organization, and last week I became the conductor for the scenes. That means that I made my conducting debut last night.

The scenes are a

Vocalise: Belmonte Leap Plus Seconds

This vocalise is based off of a phrase in the aria “O wie ängstlich” from Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail.

Breaking Down a Phrase

Dealing with coloratura passages is tricky. They look imposing, and the tendancy may be to just dive in and hope that you may come out of the other side. The result is usually a big mess and a disheartened spirit. Now as a tenor, I am having to face my own weaknesses

Recent Work

This past week was spent working on three major projects:

First, I needed to quickly learn the Mozart trio “Cosa Sento” from Le Nozze di Figaro. I will be playing the Count in New Mexico State University’s opera scenes program in April. That will be a lot of fun, but it was