boheme and beethoven

right now we're in the middle of our run of La Boheme, and it has confirmed my secret belief that i really want to be an opera singer. how amazing to get to sing those melodies that Puccini and Verdi wrote! not to mention the ability to act at the same time as you are expressing yourself musically. *sigh*

it's a gorgeous opera, and luckily for us we're playing it about 10 times. tomorrow, though, we begin rehearsal for beethoven 7, which was added as a lunchtime concert smack dab in the middle of our run of boheme. not great timing, but great music!

we have three rehearsals for the beethoven and then a concert at 1pm on thursday, followed by boheme at 7. a richly musical day.

it is lots of work, but i do feel extraordinarily lucky that i am being assigned such great music. i kind of feel as though this season i'm getting a run-down of the "best of." opera, ballet, orchestra... later on we're playing shostakovich 5, also sprach zarathustra, marriage of figaro, barber of seville, suor angelica, bluebeard's castle, and the ballets sleeping beauty and the rite of spring.

jobs are so exciting!!!