It’s not a promising start when you’re standing in the second row of singers and you can barely hear James Levine’s comments over the pounding rain.
To back up: I’m at Tanglewood this week, and we’re up to our eyeballs in water as we prepare for the Gurrelieder performance on Friday. So far it’s playing out weatherwise like a replay of last year, though I feel much more part of the group this time around. (It helps that I already know the music too.)
Hopefully it will dry off soon. Then I can relax and enjoy myself a little.