Sylvia Anderson, Founder and Artistic Director - Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute
Be Kind and Courteous, Titania's Aria
Midsummer Night's Dream, Elizabeth Harwood
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L'Egisto
 
 
A typical Day and Week (from 2012)
 
 
NOT ALL STUDENTS HAVE THE SAME DAILY SCHEDULE, BUT THIS LITTLE SCHEDULE WITH GIVE YOU A GENERAL IDEA OF A DAY OR WEEK AT BASOTI.
 
 
 
A   TYPICAL DAY AT BASOTI           A POSSIBLE FINAL WEEK 
 
 
10-12 A.M.
 
PERSONAL ARIA PREPARATION WITH A MASTER TEACHER
 
12 - 1 - LUNCH
 
1-3-  OPERA REHEARSALS
 
3-5 - SCENE AND OPERA REHEARSALS
 
5-6:30 - DINNER
 
6:30-9:30 - MASTER CLASS on "How to sing Recitative"  or REHEARSALS
 
 
 
 
OTHER POSSIBLE LECTURE AND            WORKSHOP SUBJECTS:
 
 "How to audition without fear"
 
"What is a good colleague?"
 
"How to find your own operatic sound"
 
"Listening for clues in the music"
 
"How to understand  'breathing technique"
 
"Singing with authority"
 
"Alexander Technique for a healthy body"
 
MONDAY - MORNING - "BUSINESS TOOLS
                 FOR SINGERS"
         AFTERNOON - VOICE LESSONS
     SCENE REHEARSALS AND ONE-ACTS
         EVENING - FINAL RUN-THRU
     "DON GIOVANNI"
 
TUESDAY - MORNING - RESUME WRITING
         AFTERNOON - VOICE LESSONS
         EVE - FINAL RUN THRU
      HANDEL OPERA AND    SCENES
 
WEDNESDAY - MORN AND AFT- VOICE                   LESSONS  AND SCENES
         AFT - DRESS REHEARSAL 
     ONE-ACTS CAST A AND SCENES
         EVE -  D. R.  "DON GIOVANNI"  A
 
THURSDAY -  MORNING - SESSION WITH  
     ACTORS:  "ENGAGING YOUR AUDIENCE"
         AFT - D.R. "DON GIOVANNI"  CAST B
         EVE - PERF. ONE-ACTS  A AND SCENES
 
FRIDAY - MORNING - SESSION "THE   BUSINESS OF SINGING" WITH ENTIRE   FACULTY
         AFT - D.R.  ONE ACTS CAST B
         EVE - PERF. "DON GIOVANNI"  CAST A
 
SATURDAY - FREE MORNING
         AFT - PERF. B "DON GIOVANNI"
         EVE - PERF. ONE ACTS  B
 
SUNDAY - FINAL PERFORMANCE, STRIKE AND FAREWELL PARTY