Happiness = An Opera Score

My Fledermaus score came in the mail. HURRAY! I feel like a real opera singer now. (ha)

It's smaller than I expected. The translation is more atrocious than I was expecting. It was so much work to get the score!

I called the Schirmer (ugh) distributor and asked for "The Bat" because Isabel told me to.

"I've never heard of that," the man says.

"You know, like Die Fledermaus but in English. The operetta by Strauss."

"Um, let me look."

I get terrible waiting music for a minute, then he comes back,

"You want The Hat? H-A-T?"

"No!" I answer. "The Bat. B-A-T. Like the thing that flies."

"Oh, one moment."

More terrible music.

"Ok," he says. "That's $41."

What? Isabel said it was $18.95.

"Are you sure there isn't another one?" I ask.

"Oh, yeah, here it is."

UGH. So I hoped to Orpheus that he got all my info right. And he did. My score came in the mail. Hurray! Its shiny redness is sitting on my bed pleading to be highlighted.

I'm also very excited about my honors project next semester. Tammy is letting me take lessons for honors credit. I'm doing a project on Mahler's Ruckertlieder. Ahhhh. Mahler + amazing poetry + research = love! Tammy is too good to me.

So much to do! This summer is anything but boring.