Staging for Faust began this week. We are back at the old Dunham’s store which has plenty of space for our rehearsal needs. The principals are here and it has been fun interacting with them. Marguerite Krull (Cherubino, The Marriage of Figaro) has returned for another pants role. This time she is the young boy, Siebel, who is in love with Marguerite (the character; not herself). The other leads are new to Opera Grand Rapids. Pamela Armstrong (Marguerite) was originally booked at this time to sing for another company that cancelled their season. Their loss is our gain. Bryan Griffin is our Faust, Quinn Kelsey is Valentin (Marguerite’s noble brother) and Kirk Eichelberger is the “cute, but creepy” devil Mephistopheles. Having heard all them sing a bit at rehearsals, I am looking forward to the sitzprobe on Saturday when we sing the entire opera with the Symphony for the first time. It will be the first time the chorus will get to hear the principals in full voice sing all the arias that happen when we are not on stage. No one should miss that!
Tonight we are running through the whole show in the rehearsal space. The principals don’t have to sing full voice in staging rehearsal, but sometimes they do just for the practice. This is our last chance to work on staging before we get to DeVos Hall on Sunday evening where the whole show takes on a new dimension with the technical aspects of lights, sound and real set pieces.
Tonight we are running through the whole show in the rehearsal space. The principals don’t have to sing full voice in staging rehearsal, but sometimes they do just for the practice. This is our last chance to work on staging before we get to DeVos Hall on Sunday evening where the whole show takes on a new dimension with the technical aspects of lights, sound and real set pieces.
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