I would get vaccinated every two weeks to not lose two years of work ever again. I’m serious. Every two weeks. Jab me up. I would also get vaccinated every two weeks if you told me by doing so I was saving one human life. Even if they were a trump supporter or hated Mariah Carey.
Opening Night of
#AKHNATEN
at
@E_N_O
! My 4th ENO opening night, 6th Akhnaten opening night and 9th
@philipglass
opera opening night. Thank you
@openspacer
for a decade+ of the best adventures!
Elton John just said on his radio show “women are making the most interesting music in the world today” Hey opera companies! What’re you programming written by women? Not interested in returning to live shows with just Mozart/Bizet/ETC. Audiences are going to show up. Be bold!
Omg stop with the year end emails asking for money and stop putting the artists who have worked for your company/venue on these mailing lists. Especially when we’ve hardly worked in two years. ✌🏼
Best birthday ever. Thank you for all the love. I got to spend the day on stage at The Met closing the most beautiful show and sharing a bow with Philip. Hard to beat this one. Here we go 38!
#Akhnaten
@philipglass
@MetOpera
@A_R_Costanzo
It is officially my birthday! And in just a few hours I get to close the most meaningful experience,
#Akhnaten
at The
@MetOpera
, and take a bow with
@philipglass
. Best birthday gift ever. Here we go 38. Come through!
Wow I get to perform in the Olivier & Grammy Award winning global cultural sensation
#AKHNATEN
tonight for a sold out crowd at the largest West End theatre, the “people's palace of entertainment”, The London Coliseum. Life is good. Dream big.
Real talk. I’m S T R U G G L I N G. I’ve lost over 100k of work due to
#covid
. Haven’t worked since March, haven’t received
#unemployment
since June. And about to lose my
#AffordableCareAct
healthcare. But I just donated a few bucks to
@JoeBiden
.
#VOTE
. Please. Please.
I drove him two hours round-trip to get his monkey pox vaccine, he didn’t thank me and when I dropped him off he broke up with me. 😂 the bar is looooooooow
Listen... all I’m gonna say is I’m wearing spanx today for the first time ever and mad props to all my ladies who’ve been doing it every audition, gig and formal event their entire careers, lord have mercy, I RESPECT YOU SO DAMN MUCH. Men are babies. YOU already knew this.
Today was big...had my first ever audition for a major role in a major film, like major major. This pandemic artist experience is beyond wild. Ended the day singing virtually at Birdland in NYC reconnecting with my Broadway roots. Not a bad Monday at all. 💤❤️💤
Happiest of birthdays to this mountain of a human being. So very glad you were born and so deeply appreciative of your immeasurable contributions to our world. You changed my life forever and I love you
@philipglass
! Wishing you the very best year ahead.
Thank you sincerely to everyone who joined us yesterday for the Live in HD broadcast of
#Akhnaten
from The
@MetOpera
. Your love and support means the world to me and sharing this moment with you is something I will never forget. All my love to you!
free streaming operas I am a part of:
AKHNATEN
tonight, June 20 through June 21
BREAKING THE WAVES
ongoing through August 31
RUSALKA
July 5-August 18
BILLY BUDD
July 12-August 25
Today was rough. I’ve lost count of how many of my friends have this nasty virus. Most are hanging in but some are in very bad shape. It’s not just about losing our jobs anymore, we are losing people. Please please please please please stay home.
#COVID19
#StayAtHome
#coronavirus
So excited to share the live broadcast of
#Akhnaten
with you tomorrow! The fun continues during the two intermissions, I’ll be live on camera with
@JoyceDiDonato
just before the start of Act III. It’s not too late to join us, find your cinema below!
Just wanted to leave a note to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the love, kindness and support. This is obviously a very difficult and sorrowful time and we have a long road ahead of us. Thank you and my love to you all. ❤️
No, I’m not leaving showbiz. I’ve decided to be way more selective about who I work with. Opera - I’m self-managed now. You know where to find me. Theatre/film/tv/commercial - Professional Artists NYC, MGMT Artists LA & Atlas Talent NYC/LA. PR - Bryan Buttler Media Relations ⚡️
@NYCMayor
Yeah if they were exposed they should be tested. There should be enough testing to not have to fight it out over who should be tested first. Send help!
Just reflecting that if I retroactively retire from performing live my farewell to the stage would be closing Akhnaten at The Met on my birthday, singing Wotan naked at a lower east side burlesque club and a mini national tour of a solo show. Sums it all up. I’m good with that.
So last night I’m on my patio unwinding the day and this guy sticks his head out his window to shout down that he loves and appreciates what we did to the space. It had sat empty and very unkept for many years and his windows overlook our backyard. Made my day.
#LOVE
Want to say a big thank you to our awesome
#ENOAkhnaten
audiences, especially the many who are standing in the back of the house for three hours to be with us. It’s a beautiful thing to see so many people filling the
@E_N_O
Coliseum
That’s a wrap! Great couple of days with HBO. Huge thanks to my NYC theatre/film/tv agents of 13 years now, Professional Artists. It was GREAT to work again and spectacular to feel SAFE in the supervision of a huge team of healthcare professionals while working! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Was going to wait to announce the cancellation of my
@carnegiehall
recital November 30 but here it is. Fret not, the exciting program I’ve planned with so many cherished collaborators will go on but in a new way and with a much broader reach 💅🏼
So today...callback via vid conference for a national commercial, work session with a composer for a new opera, audition for a tv show...sorta like old times but all in this room...
#showbiz
#pandemiclife
I recently tried to be with a man who didn’t like dogs, beaches or The Beatles. And that was just the tip of the iceberg, that one that sunk the Titanic. WTF was I thinking? I need an independent panel of experts to start vetting guys. I’m really not good at it.
Last night I filmed a tv audition and in the scene I had to snort coke. I thought I was so clever to use protein powder as my prop cocaine until I accidentally *actually* snorted it and uncontrollably sneezed for several minutes while crying. Full out. Hope I get that gig though.
Just did my last audition of 2022, officially holiday vacation time. I bought myself a brownie and a coffee after like I used to do when I first moved to New York, and was feeling squirrelly after auditioning.
Went ahead and got the
#Akhnaten
tattoo I’ve been thinking about since we opened at
@E_N_O
in 2016. Next up
@MetOpera
! November 8-December 7, Live in HD worldwide November 23 ☀️
So if you didn’t know
#operasingers
are also pianists,
@MetOpera
#athomegala
lifting the veil on that one, proving once and for all that opera artists are the olympians of singers, the gladiators of the stage.
Just paid off the last of my ex husband’s debt, 4 years and 37 payments later for a leased car he got repossessed after we split 🤪 don’t marry someone you wouldn’t want to divorce and thoroughly vet peeps, honestly ask for tax returns cuz some of these boys ain’t never filed
The Classical Post
#Award
for most innovative singer – baritone goes to
@_Zachary_James_
. Congratulations and thank you for sharing your wonderful vocal abilities with the world!
Just a heads up I’ve decided from now on I’m taking this 12-year-old, barely read, no one cares account in a new direction and mostly it’s just gonna be a time capsule for myself so I’m probably gonna say some things that make absolutely no sense to anyone but me. As you were!
My boyfriend works at the best hospital in Philly, 2nd best in PA, top 20 USA. Staff instructed to wear surgical masks into the building each day, masks rationed 1 per week per person, told to reuse them daily. Unacceptable!
#covid19
#coronavirus
@GovernorTomWolf
@PhillyMayor