"No" to a contracted "Faust" at the Met last year when she learned that she would have had to go on without orchestral rehearsal.
After hearing the first orchestral rehearsal by the London Philharmonic on May 25, he changed his mind.
The courses are spent in sectionals and full orchestral rehearsals, preparing repertoire to be played at an end of course concert.
At orchestral rehearsals he often had a car magazine on the music stand instead of his music (he knew the music from memory anyway).
As he was covering the role for another tenor, he had not had a stage or orchestral rehearsal.
The festival this year includes intensive chamber music studies, master classes and orchestral rehearsals, plus a dozen or more public concerts.
They were delivered Monday morning, two hours before the only orchestral rehearsal of "Alzira."
Ideal for orchestral rehearsals, it can also be used as a 340-seat venue.
In an odd twist of fate, this scene (in which the bomber crashes), was given its first orchestral rehearsal on the morning of 9/11.
After hearing an orchestral rehearsal of it, Tolstoy wrote a highly positive review of the work for Pravda.