Setting up a score for Opera

There are no set rules on how to prepare your score when working on an Opera, as a score is individual to the person working from it. However, the following ideas have proven helpful:

Example of a page in a score

- Post It’s are your best friends! - Information on these can easily be moved around without having to erase it

- Place tabs by scenes or obvious breaks - This is helpful to find your way through the score

- Write a key in the front of your score - This is helpful if someone else has to pick up your score

Tabs by Scenes / Obvious Breaks Post It’s are your best friends! → Key Entrances + Exits Plot Props / Costume Plot Timings → Other departments Bulldog clip to clip documents to score

Listen to the Opera multiple times to make yourself familiar:

for fun

for timings

for entrances and exits

for props or costume information