All it takes is a phone call and a dream
Written by Michael Vass
Timing is everything
This truism applies to everything in life. From buying or selling stocks, hitting a baseball, crossing the street, asking someone out on a date to getting a starring role in a opera.
Yes, starring in an opera.
Adriano Graziani is the well-fated man who called into the Welsh National Opera – planning to get tickets for Friends of Welsh National Opera performance – and wound up getting an offer for the lead role. Not only did he take the offer, his performance was so strong that he will now star in that opera company’s production of La Bohème in 2009.
Now before every opera hopeful starts dialing the Metropolitan Opera, there is a bit more to the story. Graziani was a student at the Cardiff International Academy of Voice, and part-time singer when not at his full-time banking job. So they had heard him sing before. In addition the lead tenor had taken ill that day, and Graziani is a tenor.
So it was a combination of a lot of work before hand, talent, and timing that all came together. But once they did it was lightning in a bottle.
It’s kind of like Paul Potts – the winner of the Britain’s Got Talent television show. I featured a video of Potts before in the post The uplifting theme of 2007
Like they always say,
Success is 90% hard work and 10% luck
