Sally writing a blog

The moment is upon us. All that we have worked for behind closed doors (glimpsed, from time to time, by cameras for the we ...

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It’s Monday morning. It rained heavily in the night and I woke to its comforting sound on the roof, another kind of musi ...

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The work in the studio hits the stage and I’m running. I try to answer constant questions from all members of the team ...

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I spent the weekend in the theatre. As the lovely September sun streamed down outside, we sat in the dark looking at ligh ...

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Yesterday I went to a sitzprobe. It was my first experience of hearing the singers and orchestra together, and it was a s ...

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A rehearsal process such as this (4 weeks in the studio with the singers before attempting to stagger through the acts on ...

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Alice has been struck down by a virus and has lost her voice.

We texted each other regularly over the weekend and t ...

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On Friday night, in celebration after having run Act One for the first time, I put on some earrings and went out dancing w ...

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As rehearsals for Carmen roll relentlessly onward, memories of earlier theatrical experiences have re-surfaced.

Whe ...

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Bizet wrote a complex musical score for Carmen and the librettists produced a lyric and dramatic structure. But for a sin ...

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