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I'm an opera singer who can sings mezzo-soprano roles. That

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means I play a variety of young princes, kitchen boys, peasant

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girls and queens. Some composers, such as like Puccini, don't

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give to mezzo-sopranos any parts, but I have had a lot of work

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in every operas by Verdi and by contemporary composers. As I

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cannot afford to turn down good roles, sometimes I have a

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complicated timetable. Last year I have had to commute daily

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between Uruguay, where I was performing in the evening, and from

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Argentina, where I was rehearsing during the day. It's surprising

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what you can get used to do!! Rehearsing takes up most of an

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opera singer's time. By the end of this year I will have given

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63 performances, and had rehearsed almost every day of the

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year. I always look forward to performing in the front of an

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audience. Recently my part in Greek meant I being on stage and

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singing for most of the 90 minutes of the performance. On the

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other hand, in some operas I have a few lines to sing. Often

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when I get at home after a performance I can't sleep because the

music is still in my head.