La Traviata at the Sydney Opera House

I saw La Traviata on Tuesday night at the Sydney Opera House. The singing was great, sets were amazing, orchestra played beautifully, it was quite the treat. Violetta was played by Lorina Gore, Alfredo was played by Rame Lahaj and conducted by Renato Palumbo. There is nothing like a live performance on stage feeling the energy of the performers and how it affects the audience. Of course Act III is heart breaking which was delivered with such conviction that the audience and myself were in tears.

I miss seeing operas and performing it. I need to get back involved in it. I'm so thrilled I was finally able to see an opera at the famous Sydney Opera House.

New EP in the recording stages!

Just finished recording my vocals for my new EP! Very excited about this one. It will be completely recorded in Australia :) 

Up next I'll be adding the extra instrumentation. A big thanks to Shawn Burgess for helping me immensely for this project! 

If you haven't seen it yet, check out my most recent video http://youtu.be/biKTEaZJb1U 

Thank you everyone for all your support and encouraging me to keep doing my music!! I can't thank you enough! Ox

www.moniqueangele.com

My final show in Sydney

My final show in Sydney, Australia will be Tuesday July 21st at Mr. Falcons in the Glebe. I've had such a great time performing in Sydney, meeting new people and hearing new musicians. Just wanted to thank you all for being very supportive!! Ox

www.moniqueangele.com

My bro's new company!

So my brother has started his own company called Vision FX.  All I can say is that it's pretty awesome, he's very talented and I'm super proud of him. It is a company that assists film-makers and video production companies to realize their creative vision through visual effects, 3D animation and digital compositing. He will be updated a demo reel soon! 
Please check out his Youtube Channel and keep on eye on Vision FX!!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAiWWcNFxYm7NbmG_3qWheQ

Blue Mountains

I went to the Blue Mountains for a 2nd time. Checked out Katoomba again and then the next day Wentworth Falls. My favorite was taking the Charles Darwin Walk in Wentworth Falls. It is absolutely stunning! Initially the walk is a quite peaceful nature trail with a flowing river and some small waterfalls. Then Boom!!! This pops up! 

All I can say is that the Blue Mountains is definitely worth seeing!! Not to mention it's a pretty good workout (walking steep steps right on the edge of cliffs). One of the best experiences so far in Australia! 

Hello again, new video!!

Hello everyone!
I haven't written in my blog for a really really long time! First of all I find it a little difficult keeping up with posting things on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram etc. that I thought what is the point of blogging when there are all these other social media outlets? Long story short I'm going to try to write a bit more and post what I'm up to.
This post is about a live music video that I just released a few hours ago on Youtube. I think this one is pretty special because it's my very first video recorded performance of a cover song! I haven't done many covers unless I was busking or performing more cover gigs. I'm trying to focus more on my own original material. Also since I'm currently living in Australia I thought it would be cool to do a cover song from an Australian artist. When I heard this song for the first time I was thoroughly moved by it. When I saw and heard live acoustic performances of Sia singing this song I was like, "holy crap this is so powerful!!" That is when I decided I need to cover this song its so beautiful. So with the help of the awesome videographer Shawn Burgess, we filmed this video by the fountain in Hyde Park, Sydney. It was a little chilly hence the scarf and jacket but it was a pretty fun and unique experience. I hope you enjoy the video, here is the link :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biKTEaZJb1U

It has been a while

Well I haven't written here in a while  :P Things are pretty cool right now.  Just came back from doing a show last weekend which was a great experience.  Did some keyboard tracking for my EP a couple of weekends ago.  I'm starting to work more which is very helpful when I have expenses haha!
This heat wave is a little too much right now.  I'm actually looking forward to more Fall weather.  Mmmm Fall apples make good apple pie