#SONG LYRICS VIENNA WAITS FOR YOU FREE#

I found myself on my new favorite pasttime: one of those convenient rental bikes popping up in all the forward-looking cities of Europe (come on, America – let’s get with the program!), enjoying the first flickers of spring, taking in the beautiful fresh air, and enjoying the imposed silence! Ah, it was heavenly! Apparently Vienna HAD been waiting for me!!īut there was also work to do, although I was most happy to play the recreational tourist! It was quite astonishing, to say the very least, to step into the 352nd performance of this production of the Barber of Seville, which was first seen before I was born: to think of the singers who have come before me in this production, in these costumes, and with this orchestra overwhelms the mind to step onto the soil of this city knowing it has been walked by the greatest minds and artists the world has ever seen overwhelms the heart and to take “my turn” and meet the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera public for the very first time singing those ever familiar syllables, “Una voce poco fa” could understandably make the voice shake! Happily, Rosina is a good friend, and she carried me through the nerves and the excitement with all the Spanish will power she possesses, and I was one grateful mezzo! In a way, this kind of performance is exciting, because you must stay on your toes at all times (which should always be the case, I suppose – this particular situation just demands a different kind of concentration!), and to be sure, the sense of improvisation is thrilling as an artist.

#SONG LYRICS VIENNA WAITS FOR YOU FREE#

When will you realize.Vienna waits for you?”Īh yes … Vienna was waiting for me! Who knew?īilly? I took your advice, and I thank you for it! It so happened that my 2 days of rehearsals (yes, that’s not a typo: 2 days for my Vienna State Opera Debut, which is apparently nothing out of the ordinary!) straddled the Easter Weekend, so we worked a bit on Thursday, had Good Friday off, Saturday brought an afternoon rehearsal, Easter Sunday and Monday left me free to roam the town, and then the opening on Tuesday! I wasn’t particularly happy at first to have so much free time on the job when I could have been in NY with my husband, but as luck would have it, the time was a perfect excuse to keep that phone off the hook and disappear for that little while. It’s all right, you can afford to lose a day or two

Well, finally I did…these lyrics which have accompanied me through thick and thin finally hit home:Īnd take the phone off the hook and disappear for awhile

As habit dictates, I blasted his album “The Stranger” over my loud speakers at home recently while tending to the painting of new dry wall, the bottomless filing of programs and cards and photo copied music, the sneeze-inducing dusting of all the forgotten nooks and crannies, etc – you know, all the glamorous parts of a short homestay – and as his song “Vienna” rocked me through yet another pile of crumpled receipts, I found myself really listening to the lyrics with which I had sung along countless times, while never actually having had a context in which to put them. Slow down, you crazy child You′re so ambitious for a juvenile But then if you're so smart, then tell me Why are you still so afraid? Where′s the fire, what's the hurry about? You'd better cool it off before you burn it out You′ve got so much to do And only so many hours in a day But you know that when the truth is told That you can get what you want or you get old You′re gonna kick off before you even Get halfway through When will you realize, Vienna waits for you Slow down, you're doing fine You can′t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight Tonight, Too bad but it′s the life you lead You're so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need Though you can see when you′re wrong, you know You can't always see when you're right.To anyone who has read one of those “this is your life” articles about me, it may not come as a surprise to hear that I am a huge Billy Joel fan in fact, I still dream about singing back up for him at Madison Square Garden some day.

Song lyrics vienna waits for you