2017 has been an eventful year for me, with so many new things for me to experience and learn, thank you to my wonderful teachers this year for sharing your knowledge and friendship. I started the year performing “La Dolce Speranza”with the RCM classical orchestra, conducted by Ben Palmer. The summer brought with it the opportunity to be involved with the premiere of BambinO at the Manchester International Festival, followed by a tour around the North West of England and then on to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, finishing in the Autumn with performances in Glasgow. This was such an exhilarating show to be involved with and I loved every minute of it. My year ended with two performances of Handel’s Messiah, one with Chamber Orchestra and the other with a Baroque Orchestra. In between the performances, I sang my first cantata, Handel Psalm 112 ‘Laudate Pueri Dominum’ with the Thames Philharmonic and Choir.
Christmas Festivities start tomorrow and I’m going to enjoy a well-earned holiday. To close off the year, I wanted to share with you one of the arias that I have been working on over the last few months which I hope you enjoy. It is Kommt ein schlanker Bursch gegangen, Ännchen’s aria from Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber. I have also included the original lyrics and a translation by Robert Glaubitz. Thank you to George Todica for his wonderful accompaniment on this recording.
Kommt ein schlanker Bursch gegangen,
Blond von Locken oder braun,
Hell von Aug’ und rot von Wangen,
Ei, nach dem kann man wohl schauen
Zwar schlägt man das Aug’ aufs Mieder
Nach verschämter Mädchen Art;
Doch verstohlen hebt man’s wieder,
Wenn’s das Bürschchen nicht gewahrt.
Sollten ja sich Blicke finden,
Nun, was hat das auch für Not?
Man wird drum nicht gleich erblinden,
Wird man auch ein wenig rot.
Blickchen hin und Blick herüber,
Bis der Mund sich auch was traut!
Er seufzt: Schönste!
Sie spricht: Lieber!
Bald heißt’s Bräutigam und Braut.
Immer näher, liebe Leuchten!
Wollt ihr mich im Kranze sehn?
Gelt, das ist ein nettes Bräutchen,
And the youth isn’t any less beautiful?
When a slim youth walks by,
Blond of hair or brown,
Bright of eye and red of cheeks,
Indeed, you can definitely look at him.
Of course, you lay your eyes on your bosom
After the manner of a modest maiden;
But by stealth you raise them again
If the boy doesn’t notice.
If you should catch his glance,
Then, what’s that matter?
You will not be blinded,
You become just a little red.
A little glance here and a glance over there,
Until the mouth is also as bold!
He sighs : beautiful one!
She says : beloved!
Soon, they will be Bride and Bridegroom.
Always nearer, beloved glow!
Do you want to see me in a (bridal) wreath?
Don’t you think, she is a nice bride,
And the youth isn’t any less beautiful?
Wherever you are I hope that you have a wonderful time over the Christmas Holidays and that as 2017 draws to a close that you have a fabulous New Year in 2018.
Happy holidays ❄️🎄💫☺️ smiles hedy
I hope you had a lovely Christmas holiday, smiles to you 😊
Best wishes
Charlotte
Wow!!!! Charlotte so lovely to see and hear you performing. Thanks so much for sharing and perfect timing as lovely to listen to this Xmas morning. Wishing you and your family and friends a very Merry Xmas and safe and happy holidays. Enjoy your well earned rest.
I hope you and Stephen had a super Christmas holiday, I had a lovely time, back to work today 😊💕.
Best wishes
Charlotte
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A Merry Christmas with Lots of Joy And Happiness.
Joseph
I hope you had a lovely Christmas holiday Joseph, joy and happiness to you also. 🙋🏼🎶.
Best wishes
Charlotte
Merry Christmas Charlotte. On my blog today I have a video of a wonderful performer singing Ave Maria and it made me think of you 🙂
Aww thanks for thinking of me Stephen, I hope you enjoyed my new video 😊.
All my best wishes
Charlotte
I really did enjoy it. A great performance and I think also it is nice that it is in German as it brings a different dynamic than one in English or Italian. Well done Charlotte, I hope 2018 will be even bigger and better, Stephen
Beautiful, Charlotte. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Thank you John. I hope you had a lovely Christmas holiday, I had a week off which was super, back to work today and in college tomorrow.
Best wishes
Charlotte
Merry Christmas Charlotte. Thank you for sharing your recording, it is absolutely beautiful. Have a brilliant holiday, rest, relax and enjoy😘
Glad you enjoyed it Gill thanks for listening. I’m hoping to share a couple more soon. Had a lovely rest with everyone, saw a couple of great shows, I hope you and Terry had a good Christmas too.
All my best wishes
Charlotte
Merry Christmas and a very happy and successful New Year! ✨🎄✨
Thank you Elisabeth, I hope you had a super Christmas too.
Best wishes for the New Year,
Charlotte 🙋🏼
Thank you, Charlotte, I had a pleasant Christmas, half work and half pleasure. Happy New Year!
🥂💛✨ Elisabeth
Merry Christmas
Thank you Jovina I had a lovely rest I hope you had a lovely time too.
Best wishes
Charlotte
Bravo, dear Charlotte! Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and more and more success in 2018! 🙂
Thank you Maria and thanks for watching my video. I wish you a super 2018 too.
Best wishes
Charlotte
🙂 More & more fabulous projects in 2018, dear Charlotte! Thank you!
Wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you and thanks for watching my video, I hope you had a lovely Christmas.
Best wishes for a happy New Year
Charlotte
Christmas blessings, Charlotte. Enjoy your well-earned rest 💙💜💚
Thank you I did enjoy it, eat too much, watched too much tv 😆. Back to work today and in college tomorrow.
Best wishes for a happy New Year
Charlotte
Thank you, Charlotte. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Thanks for listening and visiting lovely to hear from you, I popped by your blog just before Christmas.
Best wishes
Charlotte 🙋🏼
Thank you so much for the gift of your voice for Christmas. May you and your family enjoy the season that dreams of made of!
Thanks for listening to my video GP I hope you enjoyed the Aria. I had a super restful Christmas I hope you did too.
My very best wishes
Charlotte
My holidays are rather quiet lately, but your arias and performances are always welcome to break up that monotony, Charlotte. Keep up the excellent work and studying in 2018 and I’ll be here reading and listening!!
Give your family my best wishes for the new year as well.
GP Cox
Merry Christmas Charlotte.
Love the video,the song is beautiful.
Enjoy your time over the holidays, and have a well earned rest.😘🎅🎄xx
I’m glad you liked the video 😊. I hope you had a lovely Christmas week I did and that you get over your cough quickly.
All my best wishes
Charlotte 💕🙋🏼
Merry Christmas! Lovely performance, Charlotte.
Thank you I’m happy you enjoyed it thanks for watching 🙋🏼.
Best wishes
Charlotte
Lovely, lovely and special Christmas present to us, Charlotte. You performance was fantastic and I can see your acting skills are growing by leaps and bounds! Merry Christmas to you and yours, dear Charlotte.
Thank you for watching and your lovely feedback Noelle, I’m working on the acting so I’m glad you enjoyed my first recorded attempt 😀.
My very best wishes
Charlotte 💕
Thank you Charlotte, this is the first time I’ve heard your beautiful voice. A lovely Christmas gift! Sending love and wishes for a merry Christmas and wonderful new year.
Thanks for watching my video and your lovely comment. I hope you had a super Christmas.
All my best wishes
Charlotte
You received a standing ovation – Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! <3
You must be in my audience every time 😀😘.
I hope you had a super Christmas holiday.
All my best wishes
Charlotte 🙋🏼💕
Wow wow wow !!! Charlotte !! Bravo ! Great singing and acting, really very very nice !! Very proud of you my friend ! Happy to see you and George ! Have a great Christmas time , a nice end of year . wish you the best !
Merci beaucoup Pascal.
Thank you for my lovely Christmas photo montage.
j’espère que vous avez passé un joyeux jour de noël
Best wishes
Charlotte
Merci Charlotte. Oui, un noël joyeux et calme avec ma maman et plein de souvenirs lumineux.
All the best for you.
Merry Christmas to you and your family,
Thank you Bob, we had a lovely Christmas week all together this year, very rejuvenating. I hope you had a nice holiday too.
Best wishes
Charlotte
A very Happy Xmas to you and all your family, Charlotte
Happy Christmas Martin, I hope you’ve had a lovely relaxing day today.
All my best wishes
Charlotte
A lovely video, such fun to watch as well as listen to. Happy holidays and a well-deserved rest to you!
Thanks for watching my video and your lovely message. I hope you had a happy restful holiday too.
Best wishes
Charlotte
So lovely! Happy Holidays!
Thank you 😊 I hope you had a happy Christmas too, do you get much time off over this holiday?
All my best wishes
Charlotte
Thank you. We had a wonderful Christmas. We usually have a couple of weeks off. Happy New Year!
It’s great to hear you, Charlotte! This is lovely. Thank you so much!
Thanks for listening Peter, I’m hoping to share a couple more videos over the next month to update my you tube a bit. I hope you had a super Christmas break, did you get to see many performances?
All my best wishes
Charlotte
Thank you for sharing the video. Your singing is beautiful! All the best to you.
Thanks Nanette, I hope you had a nice Christmas and that you have a great New Year.
Best wishes
Charlotte
That sounds great! And loved watching you as you expressed the words. Of course, being a bit of a modernist, I like the scene where they make the bullets best, but that is a fun aria.
As a former caster of bullets, I suspect that scene would also resonate for me, Trent!
Not just bullets, but magic bullets… Guaranteed to strike their target. Well,the first six, at least. We won’t talk about the seventh. Musically it is often held up as one of the first signs of the chromatic side of the Romantic Era music.
Thanks Trent I appreciate you watching my video 😊. I will have to look more into the chromatic point you made below, that’s interesting and i’ll do some research into it.
Best wishes
Charlotte
A lot of music text books talk about it – The Wolf Glen Scene – so it should be hard to find.
Thank you for your music. And, Merry Christmas.🎄🎁
Thank you Ray for watching 😊. I hope you had a super Christmas.
Best wishes
Charlotte
Wish you happy merry Christmas
Thank you Amritpal I had a lovely family Christmas, too much eating and watching a box set on tv. Back to work today and in college tomorrow for classes.
All my best wishes
Charlotte
Lovely. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Many thanks for sharing your wonderful talents.
Thank you and thanks also for watching my video.
All my best wishes
Charlotte 🙋🏼
Merry Christmas and happy new year.
Thank you Mazhar we had a lovely family Christmas. I wish you a happy New Year too ✨.
Best wishes
Charlotte
A wonderful performing for Christmas and the New Year! Thank you!
Thank you for watching and your support and encouragement throughout 2017 I always appreciate your lovely comments 🙋🏼😊.
My very best wishes
Charlotte
Sehr schön gesungen!
Frohe Weihnachten und alle guten Wünsche für ein glückliches Jahr 2018!
Herzliche Grüße
von Constanze
Danke 😊.
Ich hoffe, du hattest Frohe Weihnachten und wirst ein frohes neues.
My very best wishes
Charlotte
Thank you for sharing your gorgeous voice! You are quite an actress too as you display the emotions of the song! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🤗😘💕xx
Thanks so much Janice, thanks for listening to my video, I’m hoping to post a couple more to update my YouTube. I hope you and all the family had a super Christmas holiday.
Best wishes
Charlotte
Thank you, Charlotte. Have a wonderful 2018 with many successes and more adventures! hugs xx
Merry Christmas, Charlotte! What a lovely recording; thank you so much for sharing it with us. Kommt ein schlanker Bursch gegangen is one of my favourite songs–one of the first I ever learnt. Though of course you sing it much better than I could; it has been so delightful to listen to how your voice has just grown over all the years you’ve been blogging and recording! Enjoy your holidays at home with your family, and I wish you all the best for the year ahead!
Best regards,
Cate
I forgot to mention how fabulous your German diction is. I’ve lived briefly in Germany and had a German-trained teacher, as well as studying the language at university on the side, so I know how difficult it is to pronounce it as perfectly as you did. And your acting was just so fun! You really have an amazing career ahead of you, Charlotte. Keep it up!
Best regards,
Cate
Thanks for the compliment Cate I’m working really hard on my languages so I’m happy for your comments 🙋🏼. Keep your fingers crossed for me. Not long now before I fly the nest 😳.
Best wishes
Charlotte
I hope you and all the family had a lovely Christmas Cate, I’m glad I brought back a happy memory of your first song. I can’t believe how fast the time is going by in London, only six months until my Masters program ends. Hope we get chance to meet again this year.
All my best wishes
Charlotte
Wishing you and your family a belated Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year 2018 Charlotte! X
Thank you I hope you had a lovely Christmas and all my very best wishes for a happy 2018.
Charlotte 🙋🏼✨
Stunning! Wunderbar! What could be better than that? Well, I opened a second window and heard you sing a duet with yourself. Fabuloso!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it that makes me very happy and in stereo too 😀.
All my best wishes
Charlotte 🙋🏼✨
Oh well done! That was lovely.
Thanks for watching my video, so happy you enjoyed the Aria. All my best wishes
Charlotte 🙋🏼✨
Absolutely lovely, Charlotte. Hope your Christmas was all you hoped, and I wish you a very happy New Year.
Thank you for watching the video, very happy you enjoyed it. I had a lovely Christmas I hope you did too.
All my best wishes for a super 2018,
Charlotte
I wish you a very successful year and I’m sure it will be. x
Thank you, Charlotte, for your Holiday wishes and for the beautiful gift of your beautiful aria.
Thanks for watching Don so happy you enjoyed it.
All my best wishes
Charlotte 🙋🏼✨
Really wonderful! Such a pretty aria and you performed it so well! I hope you are enjoying your Christmas break with your family. Merry Christmas and a Happy and successful New Year to you, my dear xx
Thank you Clare for watching and your lovely message. I had a great Christmas break with all my family and caught up with my best friends too.
All my best wishes
Charlotte
Thank you for the lovely performance (as well as the accompanying translation). Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year! PM
Thanks for watching, my Nana always says she wished she knew what I was singing so I put the translation in with her in mind I’m glad you read it too.
All my best wishes
Charlotte
Thank you for the wonderful ‘present’ Charlotte. Superb – so good to hear you sing. Wishing you a superb come year.
Thanks for watching and your support all year. I hope you had a super Christmas with your lovely wife.
All my best wishes
Charlotte
Happy New Year Charlotte 🍾🥂💖👏🎼🎶🎶🎶🎻xx
BTW if you ever sing in the Opera House, Graz, Austria, we will definitely cheer you on.
https://www.art-event.com/en/events/oper-graz
I would love to visit and sing in Austria, thanks for your lovely support in 2017 Ralph I hope you had a super Christmas in your new home.
All my best wishes
Charlotte
Maybe we will see you here one day. We are looking forward to it 🙂 <3
Amazing Performance. Awesome.
Thanks Eric, I’m happy you enjoyed the video.
Best wishes
Charlotte
Hi! I’m so glad to see your site, you sing beautifully!
Hi, thanks for popping by and listening and leaving your message. 🙂
All my best wishes
Charlotte
Thanks!
I may be late to this post but this is beautiful! You are such a wonderful talent!
Thank you!!! You are amazing,, and I just loved the entire performance. WOW!
Thanks Resa, hugs to you 🤗 x
Best wishes
Charlotte
Hugs to you, too! I feel honored getting a hug from you! You are a special talent! 😀
Lovely!
Happy Chrismas and New Year