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Opening night of Volpone went smoothly, and the audience loved it. The second performance, Sunday matinee, had some odd moments. One of them involved my forgetting the text, replacing it with what I call “phonated mumbling.” There were other unexpected rough moments, regardless, the audience loved it, and didn’t notice of those unexpected things. Two more performances this weekend.

Today started with my waking up at after NOON.  Got a call from one of my cast members, and we went to another cast member’s place that has a pool.  There were a total of six (6) people at the pool (swimming, not billiard), and a dog.  After that, just passed by the abode, and went directly to the house of WTOC Director Kim Witman for a BBQ-Birthday Party.  The “Harmonists” from our Berlin concert sang a revised-lyric rendition of one of their songs from the concert, and I, with two other cast members from Volpone, sang a revised-lyric rendition of “Congratulations!” from the opera, both songs in honor of Kim’s Birthday.  That’s it.

It’s almost 2am (Eastern Time), and I’m still awake, sitting in front of my computer, doing last minute things before I hit the sack.  Tonight was part of two of the “allleged” piano dress rehearsals, which started Saturday night, for Wolf Trap Opera Company’s production of John Musto’s VOLPONE.  Act I was Saturday night, Act II was Sunday night, and still had time to re-run half of Act I.  The rehearsals for the past two nights have been very productive, with a touch of frustration.  TECH rehearsals are always the most grueling part of all rehearsals, which I know most singers would agree.  Tomorrow, Monday night, will be SITZPROBE.  Tue night will be Orchestra Dress.  Wed night will be Final Dress.  Technically, Tue night will be our first, last, and only time to rehearse Volpone non-stop, from beginning to end, before the Final Dress.  I’m all for happy thoughts.

After checking out (my colleague & fellow cast member) Anne-Carolyn’s blog, I realized that I had to get back to posting my daily (or frequent) journals for people to read.  (Thanks, AC!)