Coached by the Pros!The choruses will be staged and you will be coached by two outstanding professionals: Dennis Knight was the chorus master at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for 26 years and has worked with all the famous conductors you care to mention. (His La Traviata score still has Carlo Maria Giulini's notes on it!!!) Richard Gregson was a stage Director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for about 30 years and truly understands the meaning of “Diva tantrum”! Mary Hill is currently Chief Coach and Opera Co-ordinator at the Royal Academy of Music, and runs the postgraduate opera course at Trinity College of Music The only requirement is a commitment on your part to get to know the choruses before the event by studying the words and music of these stunning choruses from Verdi operas! You will really get the most out of this experience if you learn the choruses by heart. Given that this concert is the last and final in the series, we are going to sing two popular choruses that we have sung before — that should make it easier for everyone. You will be helped enormously by the CD that Dennis will record for you on which he says the words of the choruses in time to the music and play the notes for some, but not all, the parts. If this sounds like an uphill struggle, do not despair — there will be rehearsals and tools to help you prepare. all to be sung in Italian. If you find it too difficult, just sing the vowels — make them sound Italian! Contact me to let me know if you'd like to participate and I'll send you:
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