Steel, Spunk, and Grit – Why I’m Not a Soprano
(That sound you just heard was my voice teachers of yore choking on their collective arpeggios.) The news was a shock to me, too. I’ve spent the last almost ten years training to be a lyrical ingenue soprano, equally comfortable in both the classical and contemporary genres. I have spent countless hours preparing to pitch myself to the theatre world as a Galinda in Wicked, a Laurie in Oklahoma, and even a Maria in West Side Story, (if I could ever tan enough to pass for His