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From:  Isabelle Bracamonte <ibracamonte@y...>
Isabelle Bracamonte <ibracamonte@y...>
Date:  Tue May 15, 2001  8:03 pm
Subject:  why are operas underrehearsed?


Graham and Lloyd have agreed that professional operas
are in general underrehearsed because it would be too
expensive otherwise.

But why do professional theater productions not have
this problem? Big theaters on Broadway, ACT, etc.,
have at least five weeks of rehearsal for each piece
they put on, right? What enables straight theater to
rehearse more than operas are able to?

It's the orchestra union gauging prices again, isn't
it? But a pianist for rehearsing can't be that
expensive.

Is it the singers' fees? Maybe there are no
"big-name" actors; all actors are poor and get paid
terribly, while opera singers are better paid for
their time? Is it that opera singers in the big
professional venues are so booked that they can only
spend two weeks in each place -- because there are
fewer opera singers to handle the demand? Neither of
these makes a lot of sense.

What makes rehearsing an opera so much more expensive
than rehearsing a straight play?

Isabelle B.

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  Replies Name/Email Yahoo! ID Date Size
11919 Re: why are operas underrehearsed? Karen Mercedes   Tue  5/15/2001   5 KB
11936 Audrey Stottler Jennifer L. Fretwell   Wed  5/16/2001   2 KB
11947 cues, etc, was: why are operas underrehearsed? John Alexander Blyth   Wed  5/16/2001   2 KB

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