![]() ![]() ![]() RELATED: Passions run high in San Diego Opera's 'Carmen'Ĭhoreographing a fight for opera requires working closely with the conductor - in this case Yves Abel - and the score. "Everybody has to do their job, right? So, before every performance, we run all of that at half speed and just check in, and then we run it at full speed so that when we get in performance, then they've tried it that night and we know that everything is accurate." ![]() So it's all complicated," Scholz-Carlson said. "In the Tybalt-Mercutio fight, we've got about 40 people running full speed in different interlocking patterns around the stage. That’s why Scholz-Carlson holds a fight call before every performance. His antics lead into the big battle between Tybalt and Mercutio, which involves chorus members running around as the panicked crowd. And so it's just a matter of making sure you're focused and remembering what you're doing and staying calm."Ĭoit sings the role of Stéphano (a character created specifically for the opera who does not appear in Shakespeare's play). If someone did have more vocabulary with the sword, then you might choreograph something that was a little bit more complicated just because they were able to execute it. That was fine for Scholz-Carlson: "She doesn't have the specific physical vocabulary of using a sword, so that she needs to learn, and it's going to take us a little bit longer as her body gets used to all of those specific movements. "So we went around the room the first live rehearsal, and they asked what kind of experience we had, and I was the only one who had none," Coit recalled. RELATED: Globe's new 'Robin Hood' stages swordplay in the roundīut what’s not typical for her is having to engage in swordplay. ![]() "I'm what's called a mezzo-soprano, and a lot of mezzo-soprano roles are male characters." It’s also exciting for singer Sarah Coit, who has a "trouser" role in "Roméo et Juliette," which means she plays a male character. "When you just have open space and they say, 'tell the story, use movement to tell the story on this open space,' I just find that really exciting," Scholz-Carlson said. ![]()
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