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La Traviata - Adopt a Singer

Allison Sanders, soprano

Today, we bring you the
Adopt a Singer Program!
This blog is written by one
of the cast members of
Traviata, Allison Sanders.
Allison is a student at
the Curtis Institute of Music in
Philadelphia and
plays the role of Flora
in the opera.



Allison's Blog

April 12th,

Today was our meet and greet for the opera Traviata. I haven’t been feeling well but I wanted to come to the meet and greet to see my cast mates and attempt to sing. Something must be in the air because two people of the cast were out because of illness. Robert Driver didn’t skip a beat, so instead of doing the first act, which was on the schedule, he moved to the second act of the opera. This will give us all about two days to try and get better. Time for a lot of rest and fluids!

Allison Sanders


April 15th,

I just got home from a Meet the Artist event at the Bellevue Hotel, where the cast members in the opera, meet donors and their friends. This is my fifth show with the opera company and I remember being 18 and going to these events used to be so frightening because I was so shy and didn’t know what to expect. Now, it feels like seeing family with many of the donors, many of which have known me since I was 18. As, always the team at OCP hosted a wonderful event. All the members of the cast were there and everyone seemed to feeling much better. I’m excited to finally start staging the opera tomorrow. Act 1 here we come!

Allison Sanders


April 16th,

We had our first rehearsal today. We had a musical rehearsal first with the conductor Corrado Rovaris. He is amazing and since I’m a student I learn so much from him about singing in Italian. I want to absorb everything he can give me. Even though he’s very strict and picky about things, it always helps and sounds so much better when the problem is fixed. After our musical rehearsal a few of us from Curtis went to lunch with the Alfredo, Charles Castranovo, which was a definite treat. He has so much good advice and is so down to earth. After a great lunch we went back to rehearsal to begin Act 1, which opens with a party. I love parties and so does my character Flora who is really over the top and a lot of fun. The staging process went well today but the only thing that bothers most of us was that it was so cold in the rehearsal hall but the stage managers and assistants did everything in their power to make us all comfortable. I love this company!

Allison Sanders


April 19th,

Today was my big scene….ACT 3! Its Flora’s big party scene. I get to be completely over the top. I get a wild over the top costume which I cant wait to see and get into. In this scene I also get to get mad at the Marquis, which is being played my friend Thomas Shivone, who goes to school with me at Curtis. The staging for this act is somewhat tedious because there a lot of people on stage and a lot of stories that need to be told. Everyone in the cast is so nice and pleasant to be around that it hardly seems like work because we are having so much fun making music and having a good time in these fun party scenes. I’m excited to see everything all together with the chorus and dancers. Its going to be a really good time.

Allison Sanders
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