Monthly Archives: June 2011

Eugene Onegin – third production rehearsal – arrival of the principals!

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

A swelteringly hot Sunday and I’m very glad that the rehearsal has been moved to the morning, and to Brooklands school, where the doors of the hall are flung wide onto a very pleasant square shaded by a vast tree – Thank … Continue reading →

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Open Door Opera – Iphigenia

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

A hot summer saturday evening by the river, the ideal moment for a bit of opera. I’d spent the day at a workshop on writing for young adults, and A, slogging over her book, so we were glad to be going … Continue reading →

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Rats in the Shadows

Posted on June 26, 2011 by

Our second night out in a row.  I recall saying about a month ago that we would have no social life while rehearsing Onegin, it has turned out not to be true – tired, yes; frantically busy, yes; but going … Continue reading →

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midsummer music… and dancing

Posted on June 26, 2011 by

We’ve had a busy few days celebrating midsummer with music of all kinds.  Thursday night Jon Boden celebrated the end of a year of folk songs in his A Folk Song a Day project with a gig at Cecil Sharp House.  I … Continue reading →

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Roaming Round Romsey

Posted on June 23, 2011 by

I’ve been trying to create a montage of the glorious stone cats of Romsey Abbey, but no matter what  I do with it, I can only get half of them into the featured image at the top of the page, so … Continue reading →

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Eugene Onegin 2nd Production Rehearsal

Posted on June 21, 2011 by

So we are upstairs and don’t have enough doors for our entrances and exits, and have to crunch against walls and pretend we aren’t there.  It’s hot and it’s raining, and there isn’t enough light for photographs; good job I … Continue reading →

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Eugene Onegin – 1st Production Rehearsal

Posted on June 19, 2011 by

Our first production rehearsal is six hours long. Nick is stuck on a delayed Eurostar, so Duncan is conducting from the piano, Bryony is poised with measuring tape to review costumes, Tom has collected flower pots, (which he later walks into … Continue reading →

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The Future for the Onegin Posts

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Eugene Onegin – 6th Rehearsal

Posted on June 16, 2011 by

This is the final ‘Music’ rehearsal, and Nick is trying to get us off ‘the book’. Some of us require weaning, others are trying to go cold turkey. The waltz scene from Act II worked pretty well without the words ‘n’ … Continue reading →

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NOT Eugene Onegin 5th Rehearsal- RtR go wild

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

I’m sitting on the sofa with a cup of tea and a very happy cat who is glad I’m home from a weekend away.  We’ve been playing truant from the opera!  Green fields and pastures new, we’ve been on an … Continue reading →

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