The most unexpected things happen in life and many times what we imagine comes true, maybe not in the same way we imagine it, but very similar.
When I was a teenager I was a very introverted, solitary girl, I didn't talk much, I went unnoticed, nobody noticed I existed, and I didn't develop activities that required me to show myself in front of an audience. But that didn't mean I didn't have my tastes in music and art.
I remember at one time the play Dracula directed by Pepe Cibrián, which was actually a musical, became very famous in my country, Argentina, and I got the complete play on cassette. Do you remember the cassettes? I was crazy about that play, but more than anything I was crazy about singing the songs and I imagined myself singing them in a big theatre.
I had learnt every one of them and the tones, even though I knew nothing about music, I imitated what I heard and dreamt of being a soprano. Many dreams as a teenager. I would sing the songs when I was alone at home and I would even stay up in the early hours of the morning singing.
I reached my 17th birthday and the last year of high school. And that year there were two events, one was a musical, Beauty and the Beast. I wasn't going to act, I wasn't even going to do it, but I wanted to participate in some way, and the person who directed the play, the literature teacher, knew what I was like: very studious but very shy.
She gave me two leading roles in the play: I was in charge of making, drawing and painting the posters that would be put up all over the school, let's say I was in charge of marketing. And I would have an assistant. And on the other hand, I was one of the people in charge of setting up the scenery and changing it quickly when each act of the musical and theatre play changed. I was very happy because I did something I liked, but without appearing in front of an audience.
But at the end of the year there was the big high school farewell event coming up and I was attending a religious school. The event was the day they sang goodbye to the Virgin Mary. For this, the music teacher, Miguel, had to give all the girls a singing test, we were all going to sing, all of us. I wasn't spared from that one.
When it was my turn to do the test and I finished it, the teacher stared at me and I thought what I had done wrong. I didn't speak, remember, I was too shy. He said to me: you are a soprano. He said it with a surprised look on his face and even I was surprised. I never stopped practising Dracula in private.
It was a month of learning the farewell song, practising on the church organ and on 24 November 1995 the day came when all my classmates and I became a choir. It was a very special, emotional and beautiful day, and I fulfilled one of my dreams without anyone knowing about it. And I was in front of a big audience.
I will never forget these two events, and although I have no record of them I carry them in my heart.
It is very nice to recount these experiences from my life, even though they are far away in time. Thanks to
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the beautiful weekend themes he always presents us with.
Thank you all very much for reading me today, I wish you a great weekend. See you soon.
Amonet.
All photographs are my own.
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