Brunhilde & My Operatic Past

Brunhilde was delivered just prior to Thanksgiving, and I have not had time to write about her until now.

I was a little concerned when her box arrived as it had sustained some damage in transit.

Things looked okay when I inspected her, though. I was very pleased that she had such subtle dappling.

Despite the mold being twenty years old, I had never looked closely at one before. I'm not a big drafter collector and she is also a shelf eater.

Those jagged nostrils gave me pause, enough so that I looked online for closeups of her nose and then sent photos to a friend for her insight. Apparently that is normal for the mold.

Brunhilde did not stay here with me long - although I considered it due to her connection to opera. I don't think I've ever written about it here before, but I am a former opera singer. (More than once I have donned a helmet and parodied Brunhilde, a character in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.)

That connection to opera was not enough to entice me to keep Brunhilde, lovely though she was, so I packed her up and sent her on to a friend who really wanted her.

If you're interested in reading more about my operatic past, here is a blog entry in Teachinmama about the other musicians in our opera troupe and then a couple of funny onstage moments when Music City Son Cole performed with me in The Inkeeper's Wife. (He was five or six at the time.)