Getting Dressed Up

For the upcoming Arizona Opera “Gems” concert, the Arizona Opera Orchestra will be front-and center and on stage. In the usual fully-staged productions with singers, sets and costumes the Opera Orchestra is typically under the stage in an area known as the “pit.”

We are usually heard but not seen …. but not this time …

For this next concert, a collection of famous arias and ensembles lead by our esteemed maestro Joel Revzen will be performed with the full orchestra in plain view on the stage. For the occasion, we even get to dress up in our “concert black” (tuxedos and long black dresses) instead of the usual “pit black” (all black clothes).

Besides accompanying singers in various operatic selections, the orchestra will get a chance to show off with a few of its own selections, including overtures to Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Bizet’s Carmen.

We are all very excited at this opportunity to be both seen and heard!