I am back from City Center. I got to visit with Rob's wonderful parents for about 30 minutes and that was nice. They are really fantastic parents, and I beleve they've become my surrogates.
Before I left, I spent some time working on the Madame Roberta/Aunt Minnie problem. For the past two years, Helmut Fischer, who represents a lot of opera singers, has sent me emails asking "Anything on the recording for Y_______?" She is an aging soprano I really like, The problem is, Aunt Minnie's song "Yesterdays" is for a bass. So, I had Curtis transpose the song from E-minor to G-minor and I sent a copy of the song to Dublin, telling them to contact Helmut on Monday and see if Y__________ was interested and to look over the song. I've been expecting an email from Helmut about her because I've asked them to see if his client Eamonn Mulhall, our leading man on EILEEN, is available to sing Ladislaw the Doorman..