The fat lady sang

The opera is over for the season. I did my final performance of Carmen on Friday afternoon and Lisa and I are going to the last show tonight (Camelot). It has been a great experience and I'm really glad I did it, even though it was a lot of hard work. It was very hard learning the French, but I'm happy to say that at this last performance I got almost all the words in at the right time.

Here I am getting ready at one of the mirrors in the ensemble dressing room. That's Judy behind me, taking my picture. She was one of the volunteers like me that did only Carmen.

And here I am, made up and dressed to go on.

Here's a picture of all of us Cigarette girls (the women's ensemble) in the stairway just before we went on for our final time. All of these ladies, including me, were in other wigs and other costumes for the rest of the show. Most of them are professionals, hired to come and live here for the summer to do the shows, and the pros did all four of the operas. I kind of hope that they ask me to do it again next year, but I'm not sure about singing Italian!