For me in autumn, Tuesday night is the night for opera rehearsal. I'm in the chorus of the non-professional Toronto City Opera and we rehearse at the Bickford Centre theatre near Christie Pits. (The big work is by the soloists.) This year we're putting on Carmen and The Merry Widow. It's a shame that the theatre is idle for half the year when we aren't using it: it would be nice if they had a group that put on plays there!
The early rehearsals in the fall are my favourite part. We're just concentrating on learning our music and not yet working on our stage movements, which comes in the new year, with performances in late February and early March.
In the early part we often get separated into two groups: the men go downstairs to learn their part while the women learn their own part upstairs. I used to get the impression that the girls were always learning faster than we did! (That's partly due to the group having more women than men, so they have more of a critical mass.)
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