Ramblings on a rant

Dear twopeoplewhoaregettingonmynerves,

Do you not know what happens to people like you in the professional opera world? Seriously? Do you REALLY not know? Well, here's the low down: YOU GET CUT. YOU GET CUT THEN YOU GET BLACK LISTED.

Person-number-one, I don't care HOW amazing you are (not that you are but let's not go there right now). When you're an arse to your colleagues, you're not getting another job. Do NOT forget that there are oodles and oodles of talented people out there-- people who can sing and act just as well as you and look just as good as you-- or perhaps even better. What makes you think that conductors and opera houses will hire you, a freakin' JERK, when they can hire an actually DECENT person? Being a kind person isn't only the right thing to do, it's a professional advantage.

BTW, idiot: you're shooting yourself in the FOOT by treating your scene partner like CRAP. You've proved to me and everyone who knows that you're the weak one and that, if the scene falls on its face, it's YOUR fault and no one else's.

And REALLY, person-number-two? Seriously? Do you not understand that the LEADS' words play a part in your getting a performance? Talking bad about the leads when you're a cover? Saying that you're concerned about the lead's performance because you've apparently got AMAZING chemistry with someone and that the lead doesn't with the other? SERIOUSLY? The leads are leads for a reason. We earned it in the auditions. You've got to earn it DURING the process. I'm not insecure; I have no reason to be. I'm just astonished at your lack of strategy.

Crap talking gets you NO WHERE. Maybe you know what you're doing is offensive, then again, maybe you don't. Either way you've offended. No matter the intentions, the damage has been done. At school, it doesn't matter that much BUT, do you know what happens to COVERS in the pro opera world that do anything other than what they're told? This miiiiight come as a surprise but when they mouth off... THEY. GET. CUT. They get cut then black listed. The opera world is a VERY small one. Everyone knows everyone and word travels like wild fire.


Get your heads out of your arses. I'm sick and tired of this. I'm sick and tired of seeing people treated like CRAP.

With all the sarcastic love in the world,
Rachel