Week 18

Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

Start: 9:45am
End: 5:00pm
Time: 7.25 hrs.

     In general I felt a little groggy today but I'm glad that I didn't let that get in the way of getting stuff done today! Jane contacted me earlier this week about how she sent in my recommendation letter for NYO so we talked about that for a while after I got settled in. Thinking about it now, I'm really glad that I've been able to meet experienced and knowledgeable people like Jane at my internship!

     If I haven't mentioned this already, I've started a new project for the social media team where I take the operas of next season and, using the dates of the operas' world premieres, Met premieres, and composers' birthdays, make a "Master Post Calendar" that people can use in the next season (so sad that I won't be here to post them!). Hopefully next year's intern will not take it for granted (hello, btw, if you happen to be reading this)! Anyway, I was working on that for a while and finished the posts for September when Kyle came and we went to the OLC to set up for Aardvarks. I also had to print out the rental signs and post those up around the 6th floor and outside of the Rose Building too.

     After eating a quick lunch, I continued working on the master posts until the Social Media Meeting. Our #OperaFlicks and #OpDopps trends for our "Opera goes to the Movies" campaign in January are both going really well and are pretty popular! We planned a few more posts for the week during the meeting then that was about it.

     The rest of the day I wrote master posts and I was also invited to be featured on the MetGuild Twitter and Facebook again! I was asked what my favorite #OperaFlick, a movie with an opera in it, was and I said Silence of the Lambs (which is my favorite movie). Frederika's music box plays a tune from the Magic Flute and comparing the two plots, it does make a somewhat interesting parallel!