Immediately upon my return from a concert in LA, rehearsals began for La Fille de Regiment at the Metropolitan Opera.
This was a fun one with a cameo appearance of Sandra Oh, Golden Globe and Emmy awarded actress.
What made this even more fun was that present-day Slovakia was part of the scene design. The opera took place during the Austro-Hungarian empire. We performed on treacherous terrain; complete with peaks and valleys.
City names are in a variety of different languages: French, German and Hungarian