When your patchwork life is particularly crazy, how do to stay on top of the tasks, reminders, deadlines, steps and most important of all, getting the music learned? Stellar mezzo-soprano Lucy Schaufer starts a series of blog posts this week with “Tea and Pencils“, showing how she copes with a role with detailed color-coding and a stack of brightly hued pencils.
“Please don’t call the men in white coats. This is just the way I roll!”
Using color to organize her calendar, scores and more, the system she’s used for years is helping her gear up for the “Figaro Unbound” trilogy of Beaumarchais-sourced shows at LA Opera, a large, unusual project that would challenge anyone’s duck row. The post is the first in a series as Schaufer chronicles her journey through the Figaro stories, and she’s a delight — We look forward to reading, hearing and seeing more of her in the coming months.
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Figaro Unbound:
The festival has begun! Check out the Event List here (with some already in progress), and put them on your calendar now…
The operas — 6 performances each:
The Ghosts of Versailles by John Corigliano
February 7 to March 1
The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini
February 28 to March 22
The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
March 21 to April 12
