Graham and Lloyd have agreed that professional operas are in general underrehearsed because it would be too expensive otherwise.
But why do professional theater productions not have this problem? Big theaters on Broadway, ACT, etc., have at least five weeks of rehearsal for each piece they put on, right? What enables straight theater to rehearse more than operas are able to?
It's the orchestra union gauging prices again, isn't it? But a pianist for rehearsing can't be that expensive.
Is it the singers' fees? Maybe there are no "big-name" actors; all actors are poor and get paid terribly, while opera singers are better paid for their time? Is it that opera singers in the big professional venues are so booked that they can only spend two weeks in each place -- because there are fewer opera singers to handle the demand? Neither of these makes a lot of sense.
What makes rehearsing an opera so much more expensive than rehearsing a straight play?
Isabelle B.
===== Isabelle Bracamonte, ibracamonte@y... San Francisco, CA moderator of Vocalist: the mailing list for singers (vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com)
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