So the opera world is really funny sometimes. We often will schedule our season and our singers a year or 2 in advance - it's not unusual for our Artistic Director, Scott Altman, to rush into the main room of our offices and say something like "Who wants to hear about my plan for 2010?"
Yet at the same time, there are also very often last-minute casting changes. Sometimes a singer will get sick at the last second, so we have to scramble for a replacement. These things happen, so it's great when everybody's quick on their feet and has the connections to make a good switch.
This past Friday was just such an example of this "rolling with the punches." At about 7:30am on Friday morning, one of the chorus members was forced to leave our season due to a personal reason. Well, by the end of business on Friday we had found a wonderful replacement, thanks this time to the connections of Jose Melendez, our summertime Principal Coach.
Hopefully we don't need to demonstrate our ability to be quick on our feet again this summer season, but I'm sure we'll be able to handle it if it does...
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