PacificOperaVictoria | Handwashing to . . . The Habanera @PacificOperaVictoria | Uploaded June 2020 | Updated October 2024, 15 minutes ago.
Featuring Mezzo soprano Megan Latham | Lyrics below!
In the era of COVID-19, washing your hands is anything but a 'quick & dirty' job! Health experts say we should use the proper technique and scrub for at least 20 to 30 seconds – as long as it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice. But who says you can’t sing something else?
Pacific Opera is here to help! We have created the Handwashing Public Service Video Project, a series of how-to videos featuring singers from our past and future productions, with music by your favourite opera composers and new words by Bill Richardson.
Watch (and sing along) as our opera divas and divos demonstrate proper handwashing procedures while singing popular arias to new lyrics.
Corona-librettist Bill Richardson is an author, humourist, former CBC radio host, and current corona-inspired balcony performance artist.
Handwashing to . . . .The Habanera!
Germs are vicious
They wish us harm,
They build their fortresses
On hands and arms.
Likewise elbows,
And likewise knees,
They seize our bodies
For their colonies.
Nasty microbes,
They sow their sins -
They plough their furrows
On our human skin.
Bed of roses you know it's not -
There’s just corona
In their evil plots.
Bad germs!
Bad germs!
Bad germs!
Bad germs!
Just take some soap
And H2O
And scrub like crazy
And those germs will go.
Just wash your hands
And soon you’ll be
Attending Carmen
At the P O V!
more "Handwashing to . . . " videos available at pacificopera.ca/event/handwashing
Produced by Rebecca Hass and Shine*ola Communications & Events
Featuring Mezzo soprano Megan Latham | Lyrics below!
In the era of COVID-19, washing your hands is anything but a 'quick & dirty' job! Health experts say we should use the proper technique and scrub for at least 20 to 30 seconds – as long as it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice. But who says you can’t sing something else?
Pacific Opera is here to help! We have created the Handwashing Public Service Video Project, a series of how-to videos featuring singers from our past and future productions, with music by your favourite opera composers and new words by Bill Richardson.
Watch (and sing along) as our opera divas and divos demonstrate proper handwashing procedures while singing popular arias to new lyrics.
Corona-librettist Bill Richardson is an author, humourist, former CBC radio host, and current corona-inspired balcony performance artist.
Handwashing to . . . .The Habanera!
Germs are vicious
They wish us harm,
They build their fortresses
On hands and arms.
Likewise elbows,
And likewise knees,
They seize our bodies
For their colonies.
Nasty microbes,
They sow their sins -
They plough their furrows
On our human skin.
Bed of roses you know it's not -
There’s just corona
In their evil plots.
Bad germs!
Bad germs!
Bad germs!
Bad germs!
Just take some soap
And H2O
And scrub like crazy
And those germs will go.
Just wash your hands
And soon you’ll be
Attending Carmen
At the P O V!
more "Handwashing to . . . " videos available at pacificopera.ca/event/handwashing
Produced by Rebecca Hass and Shine*ola Communications & Events
