The dress rehearsal

Today at 12 o’clock we had the dress rehearsal on Das Rheingold with audience, so now we are on the go. It went well and it is very clear that we’ve had almost too much time – or, at least – enough time for Das Rheingold. That’s positive. All the singers have had time enough to develop their characters, which brings clarity and life to the performance. It also seemed like the audience was very attentive.

On the other hand the time that’s been scheduled for Die Walküre seem terribly tight. It’ll be difficult to have the decoration finished in time and there is only about the same time scheduled for rehearsals as for Das Rheingold, even though Die Walküre is more than twice as long. But I brought that on myself, since it was me who planned the schedule.

Die Walküre is easier though in many ways, because there are fewer people on stage at the same time, and most of the singers are very experienced. Now we’ll see. Tomorrow at 12 o’clock we’re back on stage, and then we only have two weeks left until the dress rehearsal on Die Walküre.

Today I also spoke with the orchestra committee. It is obvious for everybody that we are running on a very tight schedule right now. It is ambitious to make the whole RING in repertoire together with the already ambitious program we have. But it also seems like everybody are proud and have big demands for the level of ambition.

We also had a set model for “Tosca” delivered today, that Peter Langdal is going to direct next season. It looks really exiting! And everybody seems to be well (touch wood), after we had to put a replacement for a singer on a taxi-plane from France to save “The Tempest” on Saturday.
PS! I think the blog was hacked the other day. It was so funny - and it almost felt a bit cool that somebody had done the effort to hack my bloc – but there are no ostriches in Das Rheingold, if you got the chance to read the fake contribution from me.