So Idomeneo opened 10 days ago. The final stages of getting the show ready for the public were not entirely without problems so it was a bitter-sweet experience for all of us on the production team. We were not quite able to realise the standard of technical proficiency we were aiming for. Not that the lovely people at the Estates Theatre were unwilling or unable, just that there is a cultural difference which seemed to make consistency and responsibility for these elements of the production difficult to achieve. The public reaction was very good at the premier though and the management happy with it. the show did look very beautiful and all performances were strong, especially those of Charles Workman (Idomeneo) and Hannah-Esther Minutillo (Idamante) who in performance found new psychological depths to the troubled father/son relationship.
I was very glad to get home and have been thoroughly enjoying being back in York. It's funny though, this blog is something of a lifeline when I am away and has been a very good exercise for me. However it feels like a work place - a place for part of me but not all of me. It doesn't seem the right place to talk about what I am doing when at home, although I want to share that too.
So I think I am going to start another tandem blog - a sort of 'home space'. here I will write about life in York, our allotment, how a freelancer gets his head around life when not working. Whether that will be interesting for you I don't know, but I think it will be another good exercise for me and will fill in the gaps.
So watch this space....for news of another space!
Goslings down by the River Ouse, York
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