I found myself considerably less well - prepared to sing one of the roles I ' m understudying than I had thought , routinely missing cues from Maestro and , when asked , I claimed I did n't know one of the aria ( I go back and forth in my mind as to whether such was the appropriate answer : it 's definitely not performance ready , but I could ' ve stumbled through for rehearsal purposes , I suppose ) . Given how much I ' ve been talked up to this director and what a good impression I made from the first show , I felt very deeply ashamed by my failure here . Today was even worse .

Question: What type of profession does the narrator have ?
The narrator is a singer .