Week 3

October 1st, 2014
Start: 9:45am
End: 5:00pm
Time: 7.25 hrs

Before I talk about my day, I have to announce that I finally remembered to take a picture of my desk! Here it is:

I came in a little early and, after talking to Jane about how my recital on Sunday and recording sessions on Monday and Tuesday went, I finished up all of my work from last week, which was writing up the synopses for the lesser-known operas of this season (I only had one left, which was Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress) and inputting all of the Backstage Tour calendar dates onto the metopera.org website calendar. After that, Stuart assigned me to do a project which was making name cards for the Opera Boot Camp members and alphabetizing the list of members by last name. Opera Boot Camp is a program held on Thursdays where you sign up to both learn about and watch a lot of the operas during the Met Season. This was the Guild's first time trying out the name tag thing so when I finished that up Stuart seemed really happy with the product.

Afterwards, Kyle and I set up the OLC for Music for Aardvarks then put all the signs up accordingly. I was supposed to have lunch after that, but the staff meeting got moved from 2pm to 1pm so I ended up having to eat lunch pretty late. However, the staff meeting was fun! Everyone (besides me since I didn't have to) brought in their own surveys from two weeks ago and we looked over all of them while Stuart led the meeting. I'm learning a lot from watching how he leads meetings, hopefully I'll be able to emulate that outside of my internship!

I returned from my late lunch at around 3pm then was assigned to finish up the rest of the synopses, whether they were popular or not. I really love learning about all of the operas, and I'm glad that I've been given the opportunity to become so well-acquainted with them! I still haven't finished that yet, but I'm looking forward to finishing it next week! Next week is Lacey's last week since she'll be moving to Boston. :( Here's a picture (and selfie!) of me and her: we're in front of the Guild's CD library which has an endless variety of audio files from every opera this season, and which anyone on staff can borrow whenever they want!