My life at The Met has been and continues to be fantastic! Heading into my 17th Year as a Full-time member of The Met Chorus!
It's a very intense schedule: we begin rehearsals around the first of August, open the season toward the end of September, perform usually over 25 different operas each year (all in various languages including Italian, German, French, Russian, Sanscript, etc.), sometimes 7 shows a week with rehearsals during the day, ending our season around the middle of May! It's sometimes exhausting - but always exhilarating!
I feel very blessed to be on that stage every night and hear that glorious music - plus to be doing what I feel like I was meant to do in life is a true blessing!
It's a very intense schedule: we begin rehearsals around the first of August, open the season toward the end of September, perform usually over 25 different operas each year (all in various languages including Italian, German, French, Russian, Sanscript, etc.), sometimes 7 shows a week with rehearsals during the day, ending our season around the middle of May! It's sometimes exhausting - but always exhilarating!
I feel very blessed to be on that stage every night and hear that glorious music - plus to be doing what I feel like I was meant to do in life is a true blessing!
Philip Glass' "Satyagraha"
Fantastic production - based on the life of Ghandi - very moving, wonderful opera. There are photos from this year's revival. It's still one of my most memorable experiences at The Met.
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Wounded Soldier - Comte Ory
War is hard on a soldier in opera . . . always coming home wounded - but still singing that rousing soldier's chorus!!!
Orfeo ed Euridice
Sometimes you get to be the King! And yes, it's good to be the King!
Louis XIV . . . The entire Chorus portrayed different famous people that had passed on to the underworld . . . Costumes by Isaac Mizrahi. Sometimes . . . you get to be ghostly, or long-haired!!
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Opening scene Romeo & Juliet
You're always attending a masked ball . . . but more than likely someone is going to wind up getting stabbed or dying . . . that's opera!
Don Carlo
Most of the time you get to just be your regal self . . .
Or snooty . . . or get to wear designs by Prada!
or attend a famous international function . . .
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