Magic Flute dress rehearsal tonight

Go for a swim in the lake before breakfast. Stop at the Turkish shop on the way home to pick up milk, coffee, croissants. My job here is nearly done: tonight is the "generalprobe" on the Lake Stage. Our second audience. At Saturday's Orchestra and Piano we had 6000 teenagers as part of something called "Cross Culture Day". Audiences this size are strange. They don't really respond as one. They do Mexican waves. They come and go to the toilet. They film on their iphones. They laugh patchily. They did go quiet together at the beginning but then the coffin-lid which is supposed to close to start the opera, didn't. 

Shun-kin is on in New York in the Lincoln Festival. People seem to be enjoying it. They have sent me emails. 

And now I have to read some scripts for our "Puppet Monologues" project.