I’ve recently become involved with Opera on Tap Berlin‘s production of ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann‘, which is going up on February 20/21 at the Stummfilmkino Delphi in Berlin (get tickets here). In singing the character tenor parts in the show, I’ve been able to experience a completely different kind of singing acting than I’ve experienced before. Sure, I’ve […]
It’s been roughly 5 months since my top-surgery, and I’m recovering incredibly well. I had read a lot of articles beforehand on how to deal with recovery, so I thought I was prepared, but in some ways I don’t think I ever would have been. There was about a month where I could barely move, […]
If you are at home and want to listen to good music and have some drinks its very easy these days to order a dial a booze delivery, often in under 1 hour you have your order done. I’ll be singing at Prachtwerk in Neukölln for Berlin’s first ever ‘Opera on Tap‘ on February 10th! […]
There are many splendors that Berlin has thus offered me in my short time here already: excellent coffee, compassionate friends, helpful strangers, bike lanes, an efficient subway system, and now a feminist porn movie awards event. The various criteria needed to be included in the award ceremony was pretty enormous. Here were the criteria: A […]
I don’t know if you have any experience in dealing with German bureaucracy, but I’m going to assume you don’t know anything, is that OK. OK good. Although I’m having a lot of fun in Berlin, there are a lot of official documents I need to have, and appointments I need to make, before I […]
Since I’ve been in Berlin, I’ve had only a few major priorities: Get a German phone number Get to know the city Practice German Find an apartment The other priorities have seemed to fall into place, but the process of finding an apartment in Berlin has been slightly more elusive to me. Coming from the […]
Being my second day in Berlin, I figured that the most logical next stop to getting acclimated to Berlin would be to weasel my way into the coffee scene. After reading this beautifully compiled article on Stil in Berlin, I decided to find what was closest to the Mitte where I was staying. Godshot it […]
Today was pretty interesting, I’ll give it that. In fact, today was two days, but when you’re traveling, any sense of time is thrown out the window. I woke up a bit earlier than my earlier, or my roommate’s alarm, and immediately showered, dressed, and started checking things off on the To-Do list I had […]