Well, we made it to the final week! After five weeks of staging in the rehearsal room we moved onto the Musical Arts Center stage on Thursday. This hall seats about 1,500 and is often compared to the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. We had a two hour rehearsal with orchestra on stage for the first time. It was such an experience! It is very difficult to hear the orchestra while singing on stage. I thought it would be completely the opposite. I couldn't believe how quickly my voice carried out into a hall that big. It was really exciting and gave me such a great boost of confidence. The maestro was happy with me and he even told me I had helped him keep it together with the orchestra. That was a really nice compliment!
This weekend we started piano tech rehearsals. These rehearsals aren't really for us, they are more for the stage technicalities. The production staff sets the lights, works through scene shifts, and sets props. This all gets set into place for our dress rehearsal week that starts tomorrow! It is so exciting to see the production come together. Everything comes alive with costumes, set, and lighting.
My performances will be on February 26th and March 4th. The Jacobs School of Music will be streaming the February 26th performance live on their website: http://music.indiana.edu/iumusiclive/streaming/ It would be great to have support from you all!
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Final Two Weeks
Opera rehearsal, on top of school, on top of preparation for other auditions and performances is a lot of work! I have been so busy I can hardly keep up!
I wanted to give a quick update about Faust's progress while I have the time to! We have been rehearsing for 5+ hours a day for the past few weeks with our director Tomer Zvulun. He is a great director. He has great vision but also takes a lot of care to incorporate the ideas we have come up with while preparing our roles. Tomer has been gone for the past week and a half because he has been directing a production at the Metropoliltan Opera in NYC. I'd say that's a pretty neat thing! We get to work with some of the best and I feel very blessed!
Today, we have our first orchestral rehearsal. This is the first time I have ever sung alone with orchestra. It should be really fun, but I am anticipating it to be difficult, too. It's hard to think about competing with the volume of a full orchestra. Singers have a specific quality in their voice, called the Singer's Formant, that allows their sound to be heard over an orchestra. Otherwise, we would be completely lost in the volume that an orchestra produces. It should be a fun rehearsal!
We head into the final two weeks of preparation after this weekend. Check back soon for more details about the past weeks and the upcoming weeks, as well!
I wanted to give a quick update about Faust's progress while I have the time to! We have been rehearsing for 5+ hours a day for the past few weeks with our director Tomer Zvulun. He is a great director. He has great vision but also takes a lot of care to incorporate the ideas we have come up with while preparing our roles. Tomer has been gone for the past week and a half because he has been directing a production at the Metropoliltan Opera in NYC. I'd say that's a pretty neat thing! We get to work with some of the best and I feel very blessed!
Today, we have our first orchestral rehearsal. This is the first time I have ever sung alone with orchestra. It should be really fun, but I am anticipating it to be difficult, too. It's hard to think about competing with the volume of a full orchestra. Singers have a specific quality in their voice, called the Singer's Formant, that allows their sound to be heard over an orchestra. Otherwise, we would be completely lost in the volume that an orchestra produces. It should be a fun rehearsal!
We head into the final two weeks of preparation after this weekend. Check back soon for more details about the past weeks and the upcoming weeks, as well!
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