[Leica] IMG: Send in the Clowns and Miss America

[hellman at comcast.net (Jesse Hellman)]

For the last ten years I volunteered to photograph the Peabody Opera  
productions. I have attended the rehearsals from the very beginning,  
when the singers are still "on book' and would get to know the  
blocking really well. That way I could anticipate the action and know  
the better places to be. Because they trust me I was given virtual  
freedom during the dress rehearsals. Some of the photographs up were  
taken during the final performance. I really love opera and it was  
always a pleasure to hear the operas many times. My favorites are the  
Mozart operas. After every opera I'd give all the members of the cast  
a CD on which were all of the pictures. So it was really a trade. I  
feel I got the better part of it, getting to hear wonderful singers,  
close up, perform works that I love.

Jesse

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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:05:43 +0100
From: Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be>
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Send in the Clowns and Miss America
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You have an eye for this kind of photography, Jesse. Are you at these
venues as a spectator, or can you get behind the screens to make some
shots? Pretty interesting POV's and situations there...
Philippe



Op 29-nov-06, om 22:03 heeft Jesse Hellman het volgende geschreven:


> I just added Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music to my opera
> Gallery (see <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Jesse+Hellman/>.
> Quite a few of the pictures show Elizabeth Horton (she is the blond
> girl in the Spotlight Picture along with Phyllis Bryn-Julson (in
> the wheelchair), the head of Peabody's voice department and an
> acclaimed soprano).
>
> Lizzie is Miss North Carolina and will be in the Miss America
> Pageant in Las Vegas in January 25-29. To see VERY different
> pictures of her go to <http://www.missnc.org/>. You won't believe
> it. I wouldn't have recognized her. She is an amazing, warm person
> who is a superb actress as well as a singer and has played the
> violin for about 13 years.
>
> Jesse