Internship at the Estonian National Opera (Rahvusooper): Part Two

After the Sleeping Beauty premiere my friend Aleksi came for a visit for a weekend.

Old Town on Friday evening. (Picture taken by Aleksi Joensuu)

On Saturday we walked around in Old Town with Aleksi, my other flatmate Jana and her brother Reno. We had sushi at a restaurant called Silk. (Picture taken by Aleksi Joensuu)

(Picture taken by Aleksi Joensuu)

Preparing for pizza and movie night! (Picture taken by Aleksi Joensuu)

Sunny Sunday walk in Keila. (Picture taken by Aleksi Joensuu)

St. Michael's church in Keila.

Back to work!

Many clothes in theatre are worn a lot, so you need to make sure they are strong enough. This technique in the picture was totally new for me.

Golden pants!

Next bigger project was making two acrobat suits of lycra. First experiment was to make material from stripes. It took a whole day to cut the stripes and another to sew them together.

Costume desing by E. Kálmán and piles of stripes.

One of my bosses/assistant counsellor cut the suits from the material and I sew them together.

In the fitting it turned out that this idea didn't work out, because when the costume was on the dancer, the stripes went lopsided on the legs. 

Chrismas market in Old Town.

 I made also this big collar with another trainee. A lot of sewing by hand.

The collar is for next the big premiere, Circus Princess (Tsirkusprintsess).

I almost finished this vest and the separate sleeves (not seen in the pic) similar to the costumes in the picture below. The clothes were in the middle of the making when they were assinged to me.

Vests/jackets for The Sleeping Beauty.

The next step with the acrobat costumes was trying different technique that worked fine. It took a long time to get these ready, but in between the process I did some smaller assingments too, like sewing buttons.

The costumes look kind of funny when just hanging there, but they were alright when worn by an actual person.

Stars and stripes.