It might nearly be the end of February, but I'm not quite sure how! No sooner had we ushered in the new year that I had a significant birthday (21, obviously...), and lots of exciting new projects to start work on. What a year this is promising to be!
I'm currently doing some extra chorus with Opera North on Verdi's Macbeth - a job which requires being witchy, regal and exiled, all in one show. It has been such an amazing experience, and a real joy to get to know the ladies and gentlemen of the ON chorus properly. We're off on tour next week, so everyone is currently enjoying a fleeting bit of time off before the madness sets in again. Just doing the one show has been hard enough, though - the full time singers have three on tour between them. I don't know how they do it...
Plans for 2014 so far include Musetta (just round the corner now!), Giulietta (Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Diva Opera) and cover Mařenka (The Bartered Bride, Opera North). Mixed in with that are a Mozart Requiem, Schubert Mass in G, Mendelssohn Hear my Prayer and - rather excitingly indeed - Strauss Four Last Songs. It has been a while since I last performed the Strauss, and I had to force myself to calm down when the offer came in. I shall have to wait until June for that though - and I've enough on my plate before then!
In the meantime, keep your eyes peeled for an Opera North preview blog on Bohème that I'm doing, and for plenty more exciting interviews and features on the rehearsal process. Exciting times ahead :)
Lorna xx
I'm currently doing some extra chorus with Opera North on Verdi's Macbeth - a job which requires being witchy, regal and exiled, all in one show. It has been such an amazing experience, and a real joy to get to know the ladies and gentlemen of the ON chorus properly. We're off on tour next week, so everyone is currently enjoying a fleeting bit of time off before the madness sets in again. Just doing the one show has been hard enough, though - the full time singers have three on tour between them. I don't know how they do it...
Plans for 2014 so far include Musetta (just round the corner now!), Giulietta (Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Diva Opera) and cover Mařenka (The Bartered Bride, Opera North). Mixed in with that are a Mozart Requiem, Schubert Mass in G, Mendelssohn Hear my Prayer and - rather excitingly indeed - Strauss Four Last Songs. It has been a while since I last performed the Strauss, and I had to force myself to calm down when the offer came in. I shall have to wait until June for that though - and I've enough on my plate before then!
In the meantime, keep your eyes peeled for an Opera North preview blog on Bohème that I'm doing, and for plenty more exciting interviews and features on the rehearsal process. Exciting times ahead :)
Lorna xx
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