I've been thinking about my senior recital a lot lately. Maybe because I am actually getting excited for it. Weird. I've always loved The Phantom of the Opera and when the movie came out I was obsessed with it. I loved everything about it, even bought the sheet music and learned every song - not only the voice parts but the piano too. Now I probably won't sing anything from the show at my recital... I feel like it's so well known that I wouldn't do it justice. Everyone knows it. Well who knows, maybe I could attempt. But what I may do is draw some inspiration from Emmy, my supposed doppelganger. People tell me I look like her, and my aunt once told me that my cousin watched the movie and during the scene pictured above said, "Mom, look it's Rachel!" and he insisted we were identical. I'll take that as a compliment. Singing "Angel of Music," she looks pretty angelic to me! I also feel more connected to this show now because I was able to actually go the the Paris Opera House this summer, where everything was actually filmed, and even went inside this very theatre... talk about surreal. [Side note: the opera house was by far the most ornate and opulent place I have ever been to. Even beat out the Palace of Versailles and the Royal Palace in Madrid. Simply unbelievable.] So, for my senior recital I may be drawing some inspiration from this... I may just have to find a pretty dress like this one and perhaps leave my hair down and curly... I may already have an idea... :)
Although you never know, I don't want to give anything away now do I?
Stay tuned... recital this fall... heh heh heh
