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Choeur Symphonique and Ennio Morricone

Singing with Maestro Ennio Morricone

I could feel goose bumps cover my arms as I heard the wave of applause of fifteen thousand people (Give or take an extra five thousand) as the orchestra took their seats.

I was about to step on stage of the Nimes Arena as a...

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Teenage Opera Singers

Joining Opera Junior

As Jerome Pillement continued talking, what he said seemed muffled, drowned out by the noise of my brain realizing that I’d succeeded.

I was in Opera Junior.

In a mix of exhilaration (and a small amount of outrage and not having been able to sing my second aria),...

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Young Opera Singer

My First Audition

I could feel my heart beating in my chest as I went up that elevator. A man wearing an extremely colourful Hawaiian shirt stood in front of me, my mother and her flamboyantly pink hair was to my right and my father stood to my left. Then there was me.

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