Week 2

September 24th, 2014
Start: 10:00am
End: 5:15pm
Time: 7.25 hrs

     Today was a bit slow around the office but that's ok. I came in and said hi to everyone in the office (I really love the vibe at the Guild, everyone is so positive and fun!). Before I got to work, I had a really nice conversation with Jane, my cubicle neighbor, about college and it was nice to hear her opinions, especially since she went to a music school (even though I'm not planning on attending a music school). I'm going to try to make it a point to talk to Jane each morning. As an administrative intern, I expected to do a little busy work so I guess today was the day since I spent most of the day inputting Score-Desk and Backstage Tour dates onto the metopera.org website. Score-Desk is when people buy special opera tickets so that when they go to the opera, they get their own desk where they can read But what's cool is that I'm making permanent changes to a world-renowned, often checked website! Inputting the data was a bit tedious, but it was nice to see the immediate results.

     For lunch, my mom packed me a sandwich so I went to the Juilliard Cafeteria and ate with my friend Matt Gajda who has an internship nearby at the Kaufman School of Music. He said that he likes it, and I told him about my internship too-- we're actually doing a few similar things, so I'm looking forward to seeing how our internships will differ from each other at the end!

     Fortunately, I was given a much more entertaining task for the afternoon: The Guild provides synopses of each opera for its members, so I was assigned to do some research on a handful of the operas to write synopses about them. Lacey assigned me the more "lesser-known" operas so at first I was a little intimidated by the task since I didn't know the plots, but after a while I was so glad that she assigned those operas to me because I learned so much! By the end of the day, I had detailed synopses written up about Die Meistersinger, The Death of Klinghoffer, Iolanta, Bluebeard's Castle, and Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk. Besides Die Meistersinger, this was actually the first time I learned anything about these operas, and now I really want to watch all of them! I'm really looking forward to learning as much as I can about opera during my internship.