The Daily Copy

Ninety-six years ago on this day, passes to the other side one of my favourite composers of all time: The great Giacomo Puccini, creator of “La bohème”. Musetta is one of my dream roles; I remember listening to ‘Quando m’en vo’, sang by my dear Anna Netrebko with goosebumps and astonishment on the bus, every way back home from class. “One day… one day”.

The recurrent emotional whirlwind in the middle of practice shows me that I’m not mentally calm and something is out of place. After little hesitation, I realized I need to go back to a fantastic exercise I learnt in third grade: Writing five lines of an…