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Sitzprobe

It's getting closer. Tomorrow night, we get one step closer to a semester long goal: the performance of W.A. Mozart's "Die Zauberflote" [The Magic Flute].

We've had the vocal coachings. We've done about two months of blocking and staging, not to mention the actual acting of the opera. The set is just about finished and the shift rehearsal [that's the one where all the moving of props and sets is organized] was just completed tonite. And tomorrow, is the sitzprobe.

A sitzprobe is the first full rehearsal with the orchestra. There's no blocking of acting. We will just be singing, accompanied by the SFSU orchestra and conducted by our guest conductor, Michael Borowitz. And, as music majors, this is what we've been waiting for: actual singing with a live orchestra.

I'll let you know how it went.

Makin' Mine Music

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Got propped by a good friend of mine yesterday.

Barabara Jane Reyes

You know how kids sometimes think their parents aren't hip or cool? She just reminded me that mine are.

Makin' Mine Music

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Three weeks till the opening of the W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute). Catch me as Priest #2 and Man-In-Armor #1.

Magic Flute Opera "Magic Flute"
Voice/Theater/Symphony
McKenna Theatre
Student ensemble production
$12 general/$10 students/seniors

Hope to see you there, and you don't even have to bring me flowers! =)

Makin' Mine Music

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The M.F. Update

Sometimes I think the Magic Flute is an annoying MF that I just wish is done. This is the biggest production that I've ever been in. We have to keep our availability open from 6-10pm Monday through Friday, and that's just for blocking. Add to this that we're not all completely memorized and you have a big deal of work to do.

Acting is new for me but just as fun. I actually have a small amount of speaking lines which requires me to actually have a mood, tone of voice, etc. Barbara Damashek is working us hard, but it would probably be easier, once again, if everything was memorized.

Add to this school, work and the semblence of a romantic relationship and all of a sudden you realized that you're behind in a few classes. Just last week I crammed for a 20th Century Music History test and found that I knew more than I thought, but not enough. Hopefully I scraped a low B out of it, and even maybe an A.

And oh yeah, I've broken my single season boarding record - 6 times in two months, including two stayovers [one unintentional] and a boarding buddy who happens to be a cutie. Plus last Thursday, at Northstar, I hit two PHAT jumps and another pretty good one. Looks like the balance is coming back again. And if you haven't had the chance yet, take $20 and do the night skiing at Squaw, it is so freakin' worth it.

Makin' Mine Music

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