As you saw in my last post, I'm back to bring you information about New Jersey Opera's Summer Season 2007. As some of you may already be aware, we've got a ton of stuff going on this summer. We've got masterclasses, preview concerts, musical theater concerts, a kid's camp, scenes concerts, family workshops and, oh yeah, 3 fully staged operas. Whew... I'm already tired just listing that all out...
Anyway, the whole season kicked off today, when the Studio and Associate Artists arrived for rehearsals. These guys sing the chorus parts in the operas (The Magic Flute, Romeo & Juliette and The Pirates of Penzance) and do the musical theater concerts and the scenes concerts as well as take on some of the smaller roles in the operas. They have so much to do that we brought them in a whole week ahead of the other singers to get their coachings in!
I stopped by the morning meeting today to say hello to the new arrivals and make my usual first-day announcements and take a couple of pictures for the blog. The above picture shows the singers taking in all the information. To the right, you can see Artistic Director Scott Altman (foreground) and Principal Coach Jose Melendez tag-teaming some announcements.
Tomorrow we have more rehearsals and our first masterclass with Sharon Sweet. She's presenting a masterclass every day this week (Wed-Sat) at 2pm in the Woolworth Music Building of Princeton University. They're free and open to the public, so stop on by!
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