This evening the Coro Verdi performed Verdi's MACBETH in the first of two concerts. We have pretty good soloists: Carrie is a stunning Lady Macbeth. My favorite part is the witches' choruses; it's Giuseppe's favorite part too. The finale in particular reminds me of Bellini's NORMA.
We rehearsed the opera Monday night and dress-rehearsed on Tuesday. We're rehearsing at the Villa Colombo now, but the dress rehearsal was at the Columbus Centre where we're performing it. (During Monday's rehearsal the Villa Colombo fire alarm went off, and Giuseppe said it was the Macbeth curse!) We had to spend some time on the finale: the original opera divided the baritone-basses into soldiers and bards for this number, but our group is so small that we had to do both parts at the same time.
Moira's seeing the Sunday afternoon show. She's been listening to the opera on CD all week, and she says that the third time she heard it BANG! she suddenly loved it. The parents aren't quite up to going (neither to this nor to the TOR operas).
It isn't clear what we'll do after Sunday's concert. (The Coro Verdi schedule has a question mark next.) Monday night we'll presumably have a discussion about it: Giuseppe wasn't happy about all the absenteeism as we were rehearsing MACBETH.
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