Madama Butterfly

Well im terribly sorry for not having posted for such a long time and I’m afraid it just gets worse..i have no recent film scanned for u owing to the dire state of my finances and the fact that im very very lazy to scan the few prints i do have.

Well i intended this to be a full fledged post,but unfortunately its not.Ill anyway edit it in the future.

I was involved in an opera production recently, titled “Madama Butterfly”, which was premiering on the 27th of march,it was the first production of this Puccini masterpiece, i was in the chorus, well all those things apart i do have a few pictures from the rehearsals of the opera,that i shot using my friends digital p&s some of the pictures are unbearably noisy but i was initially hesitant to stick a noisy slr in their faces coz everyone was quite wound up for various reasons, well i hope the pictures give you an idea of the mood over there 😉

well, this is me, i know ugly, but hey!!

and this is rohan and aashish fooling around and me going snap while we wait to find out where we get made up..(yes there was make up involved now dn get any ideas..)

winston pretending to be lost in thought after make-up u see make-up does that to u makes u wanna pose even more than normal haha

bernadette aka betty posing, she is a mezzo-soprano from hungary, the star-shaped flare from the bulbs is cause of the max apperture of f2.8 i guess, i dunno..

more poses from winston, seen here is the how u doin’ pose haha

Rohan all excite, yay! This is so normal to have my picture taken with make-up on!!

thats rohan, winston, nerissa and carissa they were in the chorus too, really nice lot actually!

rayna and aashish

nerissa haha, she threatened to sue me if i took anymore pictures of her..

rohan…

seho chang, a baritone from south korea a really really fun guy, hehe during the time we were working, we taught him the hindi phrase “mein tumse pyar karta hoon!” the guy went nuts and kept repeating it haha even putting it into song..

feet.. i was pretty bored by now..

Florian Spiess an amazing bass, thunderous and magnificent are words i would use to describe his voice but truth be told i think those words fall short in describing the purity of his voice..

some more rohan..

darryl! He’d just come in at this point so snap snap!!

haha swapnil sleeping i sorta have a whole series of pictures of him sleeping at various stages of the opera, this ones while waiting at the really long queue for make-up!!