Mariinsky Opera - Die Frau ohne Schatten

Edinburgh International Festival. Dress Rehearsal ? amazing costumes, set flying in, video projections, quiet singing to protect voices, Russian dancers and singers chattering in the corridors, Press scuffling, cameras clicking, watching and waiting our turn, costume check, then on as extras, walking slowly slowly, arm in arm with our ?own? Russian, through the dry ice swirling, curtain down, short but sweet, back again tomorrow for the real thing...