Inevitably a very busy week. Today, whilst final technical and painting work was taking place on stage, we had a morning "recit call" for singers with our superb repetiteur Kelvin Lim, the Sitzprobe with orchestra in St Mary's in the afternoon (as in the photograph, with our conductor Alice Farnham), and the Act 2 Stage and Orchestra rehearsal in the (very beautiful) evening in the Deanery Garden. Meanwhile, Gilly has been manning the telephones constantly (we have a challenging Wigmore Hall concert (Gluck: Le cinesi and La danza) and a Bach/Handel concert for our Patron Lady Goodhart's landmark birthday on consecutive days in a week's time) as well as cooking superbly for the cast and players. All in a day's work....