daniel smith

Buona Pasqua a tutti! Happy Easter to everyone! Back from incredible Firenze (Florence) after two performances of Mozart’s Requiem in Figline Valdarno and Firenze. Although very spontaneous, what a fantastic experience! Florence is really a stunning city. Every morning I would wake up and walk along the river. Other than the concerts, my highlight was [...]

As I look out the window of the Eurostar, I can hardly tell we are going 300km per hour – it is so early in the morning that the fog is so thick and I can’t see anything! Eurostar? Even I can barely keep up with this trip. With only 15 minutes to pack my [...]

Here I am, sitting in the waiting room of Maestro Gelmetti’s office at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. Yes, waiting room, complete with red velvet chairs and ornate hand-carved tables covered in gold leaf. Today we have solid rehearsals from 11am to 8pm for Puccini’s grand opera, Fanciulla del West (Girl of the Golden West). [...]

Ciao tutti! Here I am sitting at the table with a fine glass of Frascati typing to you all whilst my chef for the evening, Agent Flying Ducks, my good friend from Australia, Braden, is cooking me up a feast – I’m very excited after a day of walking around bella Roma. It’s great to [...]

Ciao to everyone from 11km up in the air! Here I am, sitting onboard Singapore Airlines flight SQ222 from Sydney to Singapore… having JUST made it :P Travelling often, I was so excited that this time I was actually organised! and with plenty of time to relax yesterday and today before the flight. I knew [...]

No matter how often I get to travel, I am still completely disorganised :P At least the vaccinations are done, the hair has been made especially sexy and last minute clothes shopping for winter underway! Tomorrow night is my final flute performance here in Sydney before I return to Italy for a spectacular spectacular. On [...]

Thank you to everyone who came to the recital on Saturday night, so many great memories came back to me! The official count had around 700 people in the audience, so I had a wonderful night and it was an honour for me to perform back in Sydney again. We will be back! Possibly in [...]