nailed the cadenza I've been wrestling with for a month

I finally got that run in the second aria to sit the way it's supposed to — not just technically clean, but actually breathing. It took forty-three tries and one very patient accompanist who did not once roll her eyes at me. The moment it clicked I felt it in my ribs before my ears heard it. That's the whole thing about this job, isn't it — some days a phrase just decides to let you in.