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"Apparently there&amp;apos;s not a lot of overlap between Bachelor Nation and the classical music world. Opera singer Sharleen Joynt hit all the right notes with Juan Pablo Galavis on season 18 of ABC&amp;apos;s The Bachelor, but now that she&amp;apos;s back among the masses, she&amp;apos;s having a difficult time separating her real life from reality TV life. Resuming her career as a coloratura soprano has been especially challenging, the New York City resident said in an interview with WQXR.\r\n&amp;quot;I think that the opera world is very wary of me at the moment. It&amp;apos;s not easy,&amp;quot; Joynt, 29, shared. &amp;quot;Everything I&amp;apos;ve done so far in my life has been for that career. And so to be suddenly taken less seriously because I spent two months filming a reality show is a little heartbreaking in a way.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nShe added, however, that she went into the show &amp;quot;with no career expectations&amp;quot; and intentionally tried to keep her life as a singer separate from her life as a reality star. (She&amp;apos;s currently an understudy for a production of Richard Strauss&amp;apos; Arabella at the Met.) &amp;quot;I realized that it would make me some sort of a D-list celebrity, but in no way did I think at any point that it would really help my opera career,&amp;quot; she explained.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;That&amp;apos;s why the entire time I was even on the show, I made a point of not singing. They wanted me to sing at every turn,&amp;quot; Joynt said. &amp;quot;I made it very clear -- I was like, &amp;apos;I don&amp;apos;t want to sing in interviews. I&amp;apos;m not singing when I get out of the limo...&amp;apos; Even the time I did sing [on a one-on-one date with Galavis], I said no...but then when Juan Pablo himself asked me, he was super insistent...He wouldn&amp;apos;t take no for an answer.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nJoynt, who was one of Galavis&amp;apos; top contenders (if not the top contender), left the show of her own accord in the third-to-last episode of the season, saying she didn&amp;apos;t have enough of a &amp;quot;cerebral connection&amp;quot; with the sometimes linguistically challenged Bachelor. She still looks back fondly on the experience, though -- even if signing up for it started out as a joke.\r\n&amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s the kind of thing that is like brain-meltingly and numbingly glorious,&amp;quot; she joked of watching past seasons of The Bachelor with her sister, and adding that she just happened to be in the neighborhood when producers were holding a casting call in New York.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;You know the term FOMO? Fear of missing out? I would say that&amp;apos;s what it came down to,&amp;quot; she explained. &amp;quot;Honestly, it started out as a joke and sort of snowballed. When something like that is in your hands, and you know that it&amp;apos;s once-in-a-lifetime, even if it&amp;apos;s not highbrow once-in-a-lifetime, you still have a moment where you&amp;apos;re like, &amp;quot;I could really look back on this and regret [not doing it].&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;I would be lying if I said I didn&amp;apos;t have moments where I was like, &amp;apos;Maybe this was a huge mistake,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; she told WQXR. That said, &amp;quot;it was a fun experience. I&amp;apos;m a 29-year-old girl. It was a really cool experience that I&amp;apos;ll tell my grandchildren about someday...I only have good things to say about it overall.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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