Day 23 and 24

Hi everyone.

Two lighting sessions, two shifts from 5pm to 1am.

Yesterday was the lighting session for our fourth show, "Life is a Dream". The set has these cool, mechanical fingers that flip up out of the walls, and do all sorts of neat lighting effects. Here are some photos from the lighting session:

Looking towards the audience from the back of the stage.


Two lighting supervisors discuss the next steps for focus.

I also took some more photos around the Opera campus:

Welcome to the Ranch, an "L"-shaped, single-story building housing the non-production related offices for the Santa Fe Opera


Turning 180 degrees, this is the walkway from the Ranch to the Cantina, the Opera's cafeteria.


For those who will appreciate it, this dust collection system is so large, it has it's own muffler.

The evening went by slow, with focus ending around 1am.

The next morning was a Company Meeting at 9am. Not a lot of turn-around time for sleep :) The meeting talked about future steps for the Opera, where we've come from, where we're going. Informative, definitely. At the end, to promote recycling and reducing waste, we were all given water bottles with Santa Fe Opera printed on them. Pretty neat swag. I was given a break from 12 noon to 6pm, since i had to come back for the lighting session of "Albert Herring". I got a bunch of laundry done, cleaned my room and the apartment a bit. I got back to the Opera around 5pm and tonight is pretty much like last night: Babysitting intercom. I've been problem-solving some video/audio solutions for "Madame Butterfly", but that's pretty much it.

Tomorrow is the first technical rehearsal for "The Tales of Hoffmann". See you then!

-Matt