The truth, the whole truth, and nothing else but the truth.

It´s not gonna be very popular but here it goes.
As a teacher when a student or singer comes to me and says that he went to a place and it was so boring…I always answered “Even if you don´t learn anything new, you´ll learn what not to do!” And this was the case in The Hague. It was a boring rehearsal with not a good teaching method. This happens all around the world, therefore also in Portugal. Instead of going from the general to the detail, they go the other way round. What happens? Singers get bored, the singing goes flat, and the music is killed.
I felt sorry for the composer. To see such a lovely piece being taught like that…it was getting in my nerves. Well, better rehearsals will come, because worse is impossible!