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10:30 am – WT Opera Studio audition class 11:15 am – Work commences on the next day’s schedule 11:40 am – Practice room hallway fills up 12:20 pm – Patrons begin to arrive for preshow talk 12:30pm – WTOS singers enjoy post-class bagels 12:40 pm – Turn on preshow powerpoint loop 12:50 pm – Morgana

Last night’s Alcina opening was such a beautiful and memorable evening, elevated above the ordinary by many generous and talented people. While driving home at 12:30am, I was pleasantly surprised that in spite of the fact that I had just put in a 90-hour work week, I was feeling calm, alert, and energized. Ha. This

Photos by Carol Pratt Patron emails usually skew toward the negative. When people are jazzed up enough to bother to write, it’s often because they have a score to settle. So it’s a welcome surprise when something like this (from a friend of a staff member, about last evening’s dress rehearsal) lands in my InBox.

And what, may you ask, is that? That, my friends, is an empty supertitle screen. When I read Anthony Tommasini’s article on supertitles in last Sunday’s New York Times I had no idea that we’d be conducting our own unintentional experiment within days. Tonight, immediately prior to our invited dress rehearsal for Alcina, the supertitle

I have no words. Only pictures and numbers. The pictures are courtesy of tonight’s Alcina Orchestra Tech rehearsal. Costumes, hair, set, music – all still being tweaked. But getting closer every night. The numbers are stored safely in spreadsheets representing the first stab at the 2009 budget. We have neither the money nor the permission

Photos by Carol Pratt

I left my camera in the theatre, it’s Monday morning already, and I’m too tired to go back and fetch it. So thanks to CameraMan for this wonderful post-perf photo of our Pangloss, Cunegonde and Candide. So many creative and generous people made this evening’s Candide a magnetic night at the theatre. I couldn’t possibly

…was it to promise a daily blog entry? Today was the most exhausting day so far this summer, but I do believe it will be bested by tomorrow. Candide in concertWe now have a backlog of experience with these concerts-on-steroids, and each time we get better at predicting the arc of this brutally short period

On this 232nd birthday of our great country, I want to congratulate our own Italian expert (and loyal reader of this blog) on her new U.S. citizenship. We hope you’re enjoying your first Independence Day as an official American, FG! On a more trivial note, I celebrated the 4th by declaring 24 hours of independence