How to survive in an opera chorus

From Berg to Bizet, bridesmaids to beggars, chorus members have to be up for pretty much anything. Henrietta Bredin talks to singers from ENO and Opera NorthAn airless studio in West Hampstead, London, fluorescent lights flickering overhead. A group of men and women of assorted ages dressed in casual clothes look eagerly into the middle distance, a couple of them point and look amused, their gaze shifts, they follow an invisible object until suddenly it's there, in their midst, in the form of a...

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