Posts Tagged “Katherine Jenkins”

Money, money, money

7 Commentsby Juliette  |  07.19.10  |  Latest News, Record Producing

Those of you who don’t listen to Classic Fm may not know that Craig Ogden, the fantastic guitarist who I duetted with on Venezia, has a new album out. James and I did a couple of arrangements for it and I’m pleased to say it went
straight into the classical charts at no.1. Not that we will benefit financially by it’s sales; if you produce an album, you get points on it (and we all know that points mean prizes, or rather money in this case). However, if you do the musical arrangement you get paid a fee but nil points (to be said in the appropriate Eurovision accent). Still, it’s nice to see something we were involved with do well.

Speaking of money, we received our PRS statement today which is always exciting as you earn extra money you didn’t More »

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Duet with Meatloaf

9 Commentsby Juliette  |  02.13.10  |  Latest News, Popstar to Opera star

Might be a long blog so I’ll do a 2-parter and finish off later. I’m delighted with so many different viewpoints and comments being about this show- makes for interesting reading.

So I got the call on Thursday saying Meatloaf wants to duet with an opera singer. Mad idea but a great way of raising my profile quite apart from the fact that I remember Meatloaf dominating the charts when I was a kid. He is a legend and what a thing to be able to say:

“I sang Bat out of Hell as a duet with Meatloaf”

They wanted to send a car straightaway but first I had to take both the boys to Kings for their regular bloods which can’t be missed as their levels have to be closely monitored. (As it happened we just got the results and Arthur’s medication has had to be increased so it was absolutely the right call not to delay them).

As soon as I got back from the hospital they whisked me to the studios for a rehearsal with Meatloaf. I met the musical director and asked for some music but he only had a lyric sheet for me. So this is Rock’n Roll – no music! I’m afraid us classically trained singers need dots to read so I was slightly More »

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Popstar to Opera star

19 Commentsby Juliette  |  01.19.10  |  Latest News

I saw a clip of this yesterday and can’t help but comment. Yes it was entertaining but what the popstars are doing bears no resemblance whatsoever to what is involved with being an opera singer. It takes years to train a voice to be able to sing in an opera house but the poor contestants have just a week per performance. I’m not surprised that much of the opera community feels it belittles their craft. More »

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