Friday, October 10, 2003

Sasha Castel---Questions You May Have

When and where was Sasha born?
I came into this world at 10:30 AM on March 16, 1973, at the NYU Medical Center Hospital in New York City.

Who are Sasha's parents? and the rest of her family?
Silvia Nancy Benfield Castel, an airline reservations agent and homemeker born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Her parents: Alexander, an accountant from London, and Sara Goldberg, a homemaker of Ukranian descent.

Naftali Chaim Kalinhoff, aka James Kalinhoff, aka Jimmy Sales, aka Nico Castel; opera singer, writer, and professor born in Lisbon, Portugal and raised in Caracas, Venezuela.His parents: Felix, a bicycle-parts salesman born in Indonesia of Austrian parents; and Margalit Castel, one of five daughters of a rabbi in Lisbon, born in Hebron in what is now the disputed territory of Israel/Palestine.

What does Sasha look like?
I'm 5 feet 6 and a half inches tall, with auburn hair (L'Oreal Feria #P64 Intense Red Copper, to be exact) and hazel eyes. I've got freckles on top of fair skin. Perfect strangers have commented on my resemblance to Jodie Foster, both in appearance and speech. I don't see it myself.

What does Sasha do for a living?
Little bits of this and that. For the past 12 years, she has been a supernumerary and usher at the Metropolitan Opera. She also does freelance consulting work for theater and opera programs throughout the world. In the past she has sold cookware, videos, classical CDs, cosmetics and healthfoods at retail.

What does Sasha do for fun?
Reading, baking, blogging, cold-process soapmaking, perfumery, traveling (when I have the money), shopping (ditto), tarot reading, and listening to opera.
What does Sasha aspire to be?
Any combination of the following, preferably all:

*Opera impressario. (impressaria?)
*Pundit.
*Philanthropist.
*Beauty mogul.

Is Sasha Jewish?
Mom is Ashkenazic and Dad is Sephardic. But I am not an observant Jew. I am intrigued by mysticism, esoteric traditions and the occult.

Where does Sasha live?
As of right now, Canberra, Australia. But that may change.

Does your left boob really portrude like Dangergirl's does on the top of your site?
No.
Sasha at 6:54 AM