hey there readers...sorry for the 'long time no post'...i promise i'll update more often, because...
TURANDOT is finally over! After a month of rehearsals, we actually got our act together! With makeup (yucks), hairdos (even more yucks) and great costumes that were individually measured to fit our bodies, we pulled it off at the Esplanade Theater for five (almost) consecutive nights! mostly full houses! amazing! so many many many people came to watch...fell ill after the performances though haha. But i still think its really worth the once-in-a-lifetime experience...after all most of us in the choir would go on to become concert pianists, composers, orchestral musicians...how many of us would return to an opera production as chorus members in full dress?
"Turandot" in Singapore is really a milestone in Singapore's art history, being the biggest operatic production produced locally to date, and costing over S$800,000. Proud to have been part of it...
Its been a really great experience i suppose, being in a 'operatic' chorus and i still am amazed that we managed to memorise the whole three hour opera in one month! how amazing the human mind is when a person really wants to do something... Here are some pictures from the backstage and from the performances...
more photos on my facebook, of course.
Also, I conducted my very first composition for Wind Band with the NAFA Wind Ensemble (of which the recording you are listening to now under the right column =)) and dear Jeremy Koh helped me to take some rather glam photos! Haha thank you NAFA Band and Mr Richard Adams for providing me with such a wonderful opportunity to perform my piece (not forgetting that it is in memory of Thaddeus Cheong) with a semi-professional ensemble!
Well...i've just had a one week break from school. Term holidays! School begins next monday again...Three more terms to the end of my diploma course and the much dreaded...NATIONAL SERVICE...(gasps)
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