Empress : Kaiserin

Elijah - Night Two of Two

Finally it's all over.

During the warmup session at 18.00 Uhr, Herr Nelson and Herr Lim expressed their satisfaction with last night's performance. Herr Lim was also acting pretty weird today - he wasn't as strict as usual, and was cracking extremely lame jokes. Lol, I reckoned that the main reason for his abnormality this evening was due to his wife's return (from UK) last night. What a sweet couple. ^^

To sum up everything, I think that last night's performance was better - chorus' point of view. The entries of the parts tonight were... so much more untidy. But, what the heck. The second night was always meant to be enjoyed after all. So, maybe too much self-indulgence for us anyway. And I bet that everyone's already spent from last night's performance, me included. Many around me confessed that it was hard getting to sleep last night - we're all still re-living those vivid moments on stage - mentally of course. Physically we're all tossing on the bed, XD

However, the soloists were even more brilliant tonight! Frau Sarah Castle (the alto) and Herr Nathan Berg (Elijah) especially. More people got moved by their arias... I personally was very affected by Herr Nathan Berg's singing in Part Two... Oh. my. gosh. That really got my tears running - while I was still on stage, yes. His performance was just so... emotional. Indeed, someone who was ready to be sent to heaven - hence, the chorus did that (with the number Then did Elijah the prophet break forth). Oooh, I thought the chorus did great. I enjoyed that number tremendously, partially due to my successful hits at those lovely high passages. Wee.

Well, at the end of the performance most of the people at the stalls and Circle 1 gave us a standing ovation. I thank thee, audience. I got so emotional at that sight, and the applauses were just so roaring, that the finality of the Elijah performance got to me. So, this is it. There was once Herr Nelson just brought Herr Nathan alone onto the stage, and the applause was thunderous! And I guess Herr Nathan won most of our hearts during this week of rehearsals (plus the two nights of performances as well, duh) that we the ladies (seriously, altos + sopranos) went as far as to cheer loudly and went "woo"-ing while he embraced his moment of fame. Haha, I joined in the cheering as well. Apparantly our Elijah had got himself a little fanclub of squealing chorus ladies. Back at backstage, we were all working ourselves into a frenzy of "hey, there's Elijah!", "Quick, get his autograph!", "Quick, the cameras!". And hence our dear beloved Elijah was surrounded by his fangirls of all ages (and I being the youngest of all, haha - since I'm the youngest in the chorus, dotz...). At the end of it all, I got everyone's autograph on the programme booklet. Oooh, the booklet is sooooo pretty now! Shiny pretty booklet...

See how shiny is my little booklet:
Herr John Nelson (our conductor)
Herr Lim (our Chorus Master - gosh, it was so embarressing to ask him to sign... but it's all for the sake of pretty-ing the booklet >_<)
Herr Nathan Berg (Elijah!!!!!! XD)
Frau Abbie Furmansky (the soprano angel/the widow)
Frau Sarah Castle (the alto angel/the queen - gosh I love her voice!)
Herr Scott Wyatt (Obadiah - he's making me feel very shooort when I was standing right behind him =_=;;;)
Hence, tada! That's the whole lot! Pretty shiny autographs XD

I even cracked this joke during the squealing fangirls session at the backstage - get thee hence to Elijah, for he will soon to Heaven go! Whahahaaaa... I'm so evil! I got knocked off for that, lol. But since everyone's having the post-concert madness, anything comes and goes!

And for me, yep, I got a post-concert crush on Herr Nathan as well. XD XD XD

Woohoo!

posted by empress @ 6:52 PM