Word: supersizing
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With visions of Caruso and Melba dancing in their heads, a small group of Harvard and Radcliffe students arrived at the Opera House one Sunday at noon to rehearse their parts as "supers" in the New York City Opera's Carmen. After bumbling past small groups of half-dressed ballet...
"I must have your complete attention for the next three hours," he said. "The opera begins at 3:00 and the whole company has to catch a train at 7:00." He said the last sentence very dramatically, observing the supers' reactions. They were suitably impressed, so he went on...
After explaining the supers' positions during the Toreador Song, "that--uh--classic aria," he led them to the dressing room on the fourth floor. Long rows of light bulbs were reflected from the broken mirrors of a communal dressing table. It was all very romantic. The gypsy costumes were filthy...
On such a flimsy plot, Lehmann drapes a super production involving 160-odd voices, 13 changes of scene, 94 stage hands, 37 electricians and some 100 supers. There is a showgirl chorus line, and eight special ballets. Flowery perfumes, concocted to match Weber's music, waft through the theater...
In keeping with the Guthrie-Gerard ideas, the first-act set was starkly simple, most of the workers' costumes drab blacks and greys. Carmen herself was allowed some strikingly low-cut dresses, but-hallowed tradition or not-no red rose. Also missing: the awkward parade of supers into the...