Hello everybody!
After a couple of slow days, we've had a full day of rehearsal today on Samson and Delilah. Last night was the chorus music with the conductor. The chorus carries a lot of responsibility this season - they have three performances of Boris Godunov this week, plus they are memorizing and preparing to stage Samson, then the next show is Il Trovatore which also has a HUGE part for the chorus. Lots of notes and lots of words - in three different languages in this case!
Today has been a lot of high energy rehearsing. It's pretty exciting when an opera begins with a huge chorus of Hebrews, then Samson's aria inspires them all to go out and fight the Philistines, and so they take out the Philistine general Abimelech. We usually wait HOURS, through several acts of glorious music, for the diva to finally die of comsumption.... not here! We've got a murder right out of the starting gate!
I'll write more about the different elements of the show in future posts. If you have something specific you'd like to know about, please leave it as a comment so I can answer it on the blog!
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This is fun - keep it going!
How do you subscribe to get email notices when you update your blog? I am not finding a link to sign up.
Penny
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