I completed a night of work at the Birmingham Hippodrome as a dressing assistant on the Welsh National Opera production of War and Peace. I have gone to the Hippodrome as an audience member many times in my life and it was a mini dream for me to then be able to work backstage. I was assisting the dresser with the extra male chorus. It was a tone change for me as I had never dressed anyone much older than me before, but with this came a calmer atmosphere as with added experience they had less nervous energy. It was also a tone change as the scale was much bigger than I have experience with, the physical space backstage is huge compared to where I've worked and the fact that I was also working on my first opera just added to the tone of sheer scale. It was new territory for me and I enjoyed talking to the other crew about working there and working with them. I enjoyed the fact that I was just as amazed by the backstage of the production as I am when I'm watching in the auditorium and I hope to work there again in the future.
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