A Night Backstage At The Opera
Photo credit: David Tracey
It sounded like a fun idea to look behind the scenes of a big opera to see how one of these overwrought mixes of music and drama and poetry and visual arts and dance gets put together. So on Tuesday, during a costumed rehearsal of Vancouver Opera's production of Lucia di Lammermoor, I got permission to lurk backstage in the makeup room. What better place to find out what these stars of the vocal world are really like? It was a chance to meet them as they go through the transition from real people to costumed and bewigged stars of the vocal universe.
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