Agenda for 3/3

Awesome, awesome, AWESOME rehearsal last night. The choruses all sounded...well...awesome.

Here's an important video to watch:



Here's the plan for Tuesday:

6:30-7pm Dido/Belinda/Aeneas, please come early as you can. (I promise I won't get annoyed if late.) We'll look at all of your recitatives.

We'll focus on acts 2 & 3.
7-7:10 warmup
10-25 #23 w/ Belinda
25-40 #25 w/ Belinda
40-55 #28 w/ Sailor
55-8:05 #31
5-10 BREAK
10-20 #35
20-40 #36
40-9pm chorus dismissed for rehearsal of witches 

Agenda for 2/24

6:30-7pm
Pat, Daniela, Sadie: please come at 6:30 to cover the following:
#13, #15, #17, #19, #27, #30 (basically, anything that involves you!)

We will be focusing on the Act I choruses this week.
7-7:10 warmup
10-20 #1 chorus only
20-30 #4
30-45 #6 w/Belinda/2nd Woman
45-8pm #8
8-8:05 BREAK
5-20 #11
20-30 #14
30-45 #16 & #18
45-9pm #20

Agenda for 2/17

This week, we will focus on the choruses in Acts II & III. Here's the plan:

6:30-7pm: Dido & Aeneas (& Belinda, if possible) come early for recitative work

• we will do #5, #7, #9, #25, #27, #33

7-7:10 warmup

10-20 #23 w/ Belinda

20-35 #26 w/ Belinda

35-50 #28 w/ Sailor (Ed, please prepare this)

50-8:05 #31

5-10 BREAK

10-20 #35

20-35 #36

35-9pm We will run all of Act II. Soloists: know what's on your plate!

Revised agenda for 2/10

Due to some anticipated absences, this is a revised schedule for 2/10:

7-7:10 warmup
10-20 p. 4 chorus
20-30 review No. 23 (w/ Belinda)
30-40 No. 4
40-55 No. 6 (including Belinda/2nd Woman duet)

• Belinda/2nd woman: also prepare S1/S2 part at bottom of p. 14 and middle of p. 15; alto section will sing lowest part with you

55-8pm BREAK

8-8:10 No. 8

10-30 No. 11

30-40 review No. 20

40-55 Nos. 25-26 (Dido & Aeneas: you're on!)

8:55 Dismissed, except for Spirit (#27)

Here's a review of roles:

Dido: Cynthia 
Aeneas: Raymond 
Belinda: Julianna
Sailer: Ed Sawyer
Second Women: Vanessa
Sorceress: Pat
First Witch: Daniela
Second Witch: Sadie
Spirit: Sadie

Agenda for 2/10

We were low in numbers, but we had a solid rehearsal nonetheless! Here's the plan for Tuesday:

7-7:10 warmup
10-20 p. 4 chorus
20-30 No. 4
30-50 No. 6 (including Belinda/2nd Woman duet)

• Belinda/2nd woman: also prepare S1/S2 part at bottom of p. 14 and middle of p. 15; alto section will sing lowest part with you

50-8pm No. 8

8-8:05 BREAK

5-25 No. 11

25-30 review No. 20

30-40 review No. 23 (w/ Belinda)

40-9pm We'll try to put together Nos. 15-18 w/ soloists (Sorceress & witches)

Here's a review of roles:

Dido: Cynthia 
Aeneas: Raymond 
Belinda: Julianna
Sailer: Ed Sawyer
Second Women: Vanessa
Sorceress: Pat
First Witch: Daniela
Second Witch: Sadie
Spirit: Sadie