As promised, you don’t have to be on Instagram to know what I’ve been up to. Here are a couple of updates in case you missed them!

First: a video of me singing Surabaya Johnny (and showing off my German, poor pronunciation notwithstanding), at the La Jolla Community Center with Phil Dannels on the piano. __________________________________________________________

Next: VAMP (opera is dead)

I, for one, think it IS true: opera is dead. This is why I love it.

My spooky show VAMP (opera is dead) comes to Los Angeles at the Pacific Opera Project HQ on Sun., Oct. 4 @ 3pm.

featuring my good friend Randall Bills — whom I’ve known since before we both joined the ranks of the undead several centuries hence — and Yumi Hashimoto on piano.

I debuted VAMP in my backyard in April because I wanted to:
A) talk about Twilight
B) sing Olivia Rodrigo and Rosalía
C) lecture people on feminist implications of the portrayal of the vamp archetype in film, literature and OPERA
D) sing Evanescence

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Then: 11-month-old life update:

First of all, I live in San Diego again, my sacred non-ancestral home.

Not pictured: crying at the Ausländerbehörde, being yelled at by Germans on trains for speaking too loudly, gray gray gray winters/falls/springs, chronic underemployment alternated with bursts of numbing over-employment (this is not particular to Germany)

Moved back to San Diego because:

A) Wanted to

B) Friends

C) ☀️

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