Monday

Had a nice, long day. My brain is completely exhausted after meetings the whole morning and after that, six and a half hours of straight rehearsals. But it all worked out just fine. Everybody remembers it astonishingly well. The biggest difficulty is all the little ups and downs and reactions all around, which have to add life to the second scene all the time. And it’s extremely difficult for the ones who doesn't sing constantly, to remember when it is one reaction and when it is another. But they are getting much better at responding to what is being said. James is phenomenally good at remembering. He and Susanne have slightly different tempers, but this actually suits the Wotan-Fricka relation quite well.

The pieces are coming together. I really believe that we’ll make it on time. On Monday we’ll go on stage so, until then, there is in fact only four days left for the rehearsals. But it’s going to work out just fine. They have good memories, and we have now gone through the whole opera (except for the last ten minutes with Jens K., Randi and Poul – but we’ll do that tomorrow).
Need to go and see the rehearsal for “Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria” tomorrow – haven’t seen anything yet. So Mette has to run the show tomorrow.