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Stage Management: Other / Re: Il Trittico
« on: Feb 13, 2008, 05:07 pm »
Welcome to the world of opera - it can be great fun and if you like classical and opera music, it's a fabulous place to work.
It's actually fairly unusual anymore for a company to do all three primarily of the time constraints most orchestra contracts have in them - it's just asking for overtime. The two intermissions are sometimes not as short as would be preferred because the three one-acts have such different sets, so it's a complete change usually. If you, as ASM, are in charge of the deck, your intermissions will be very busy. You'll also be cueing on the singers - Il Tabarro isn't too bad because it's a small cast; I haven't done Suor Angelica; Gianni Schicci is fun and there is some cueing throughout, but most of the cast stays onstage the whole time. As you are going through your score with a cd (hopefully provided by the company), mark all entrances and you'll be ahead of the game. Be really, really, really familiar with the score while hearing the music - that's where all your cueing comes from and you need to be able to find your place often and easily.
Have a good time!
It's actually fairly unusual anymore for a company to do all three primarily of the time constraints most orchestra contracts have in them - it's just asking for overtime. The two intermissions are sometimes not as short as would be preferred because the three one-acts have such different sets, so it's a complete change usually. If you, as ASM, are in charge of the deck, your intermissions will be very busy. You'll also be cueing on the singers - Il Tabarro isn't too bad because it's a small cast; I haven't done Suor Angelica; Gianni Schicci is fun and there is some cueing throughout, but most of the cast stays onstage the whole time. As you are going through your score with a cd (hopefully provided by the company), mark all entrances and you'll be ahead of the game. Be really, really, really familiar with the score while hearing the music - that's where all your cueing comes from and you need to be able to find your place often and easily.
Have a good time!