singing at all and. starting from the overture were rather the whole piece they're cutting wherever courses and singers in question are not here. saying anything so let's begin if for now november mario van zandt go takes up the baton. as we're so scaled down let's reduced our caution to make it more subtle the other gets here. when the rehearsals began germany was under semi lockdown businesses were open schools and while other theatres were closed rehearsals were allowed of a corona version of shorts the same opera common the orchestra for it is only half

the usual songs. allow for. the sun to ists don't wear masks they sing from behind plexiglass to prevent transmission of the virus singing is thought to be especially infectious. thank you. everything's a bit too heavy especially for 10 in the morning try a lighter version ok i get a fossil to look into. the singer cast for the role of calm and is prevented from travelling by the coronavirus so here are the understudies things how our years of love and passion subject to the current hygiene regulations. man.

was. the thing to dance all it can to ensure rehearsals can go wrong. it does and this is an air purifier. i don't know what the professionals call it. this cure of the air so we can sing god bless risk. without wearing masks as well i mean so what's my sentiment mustn't we mostly were hers with masks on anyway. and we don't know yet for sure how it'll be when we eventually sing on the stage with masks on him it must mean saying you know we won't have the purifier that we can get ourselves tested before the performance. it doesn't solve the problem it's just an extra precaution that will be working with masks and distancing anyway but we don't know which passages will be doing it. does this in the office assistant a food is a terrible situation arise if you and i just. yes of course i'm afraid it would be

and i protect myself the best i can sophie and i get tested as often as i can. but it weighs on your soul of the city that it weighs like a black dog salsas you need a. yes. even subjecting themselves to. this time the performance was still hoping they'd be able to play to an audience in december. they had no intention of being upstaged by the virus some collective fortunately i already had grown up a few months ago and my doctors say i've still got the antibodies but of course you always have to be careful out. of it but i know what you go through with this virus . how was it for you awful i'm. still tired.

at least she's content voice back. the orchestra is relatively small some of the instruments time the potential to blow the virus into the air others don't. know if there's a brass players pose the least danger because we blow in here and the air goes through 2 meters of tubes before it comes out back here though aerosols come out. exponent so tested this and confirmed that the brass biassed on the cleanest members of the orchestra. just go for real problems with the singers they really project x. is not it was. an

entirely different kind of problem is that many of the orchestra members sent the subsidised shots down to corpus are under contract but others are not free long musicians many of whom haven't performed in months. then dear if you want to if the government in the freezer is don't support those freelance performers we might just wind up living under a bridge by the time the pandemics over who gets in and let's all give up the neck and is going to be around because we have to survive somehow when done via the not quite the if you want to keep having opera you're going to have to help us now please come on. into managers in coppers know that tune. the whispered down sick now become louder voices often son and he. is just a robber so he's only i don't believe it in up almost age anyway to be honest. but

you never know what's coming how does it make you feel when you say the production might not make it on the stage in this form. this in give on for an hour used to tossing out our plans from one day to other acts and making numerous and feel that we are pieces that might never be performed or will get done differently on the stuff if it is there is an enormous challenge for the 1st in a make no mistake this is an occupational therapy the small every time we are completely committed to the concept and only for it to be overturned by event visited so we're all season by all his people can adapt in ourselves our imaginations to something different every time think up and still for believing in it we met on. a few hours afterwards came the next sent back the entire opera choir was supposed to rehearse together but the latest figures for new infections are alarming the choir had to be cancelled for today it puts money opens argo and

director stefan mackie in a difficult situation coordinating the. image does the figures rise so do the individual fears and questions we have to deal with on a daily basis. i take those fears quite seriously and i believe we should take them seriously because it's hard to rehearse with fear so we went in with angst that's why we said ok not today. or tomorrow we'll discuss how we can deal with it we're in the middle income instead of acquiring carmen's part by itself. very tenderly. but that's missing is the other little bit too trivial those with so. in for a step thought musically call it. death when someone. it's the only way the dancer winston ricardo amon can bring common

under his spell. yes it is. there. now the choreography is stacked but the big question remains. when is the premiere . well that's a really difficult question. to weeks later than ready for a dress rehearsal the singer cast in the role of carmen has finally been able to make the trip. but the audience has not with cases of covert 900 rising in cop force the lockdown was extended and the theaters remain closed.

guarded it's up to the theaters to make things happen because there's no shortage of reasons not to do something in these carona times. if all goes well they can hold a real premiere once the pandemics over whenever that maybe even in the face of all these uncertainties they giving it their all. this is that this is the job we have to deal with our music since you are singers sing for the entire theater and everyone involved at that. center by the so they can perform to the best of their abilities and with the greatest dedication and their own this may be one of the most important jobs of my life minus levens. eventually fate even rehearsed with the choir. to help calm the singer's fears the director didn't stand and shoulder to shoulder. on

a strange but well spaced throughout the gallery. and then woodstock one let down of course is that we're not allowed to dance you can't put the choreography on the stage the way they worked it out. now. by feel like an expectant mother waiting for her baby to arrive but not enough to give birth. common and hunt love and don't force a will never even get to that point. the. in the song about love and passion i.g.n.

regulations prohibit so much as a night kiss it may be heartless but at least it's alphonse. common doesn't die of the pandemic but of a crime of passion. at a distance mario do you have anything yeah. i think you've all said he sample for how to make music in spite of home and above it all and much more thank you for it and wish you all the best and most importantly that you stay healthy is a. 100.

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