"It feels very light and not what I was expecting, even, from opera. Everybody's happy to be out and enjoying the weather and even the people that are singing seem like they're really enjoying it.
"It just all feels very joyful to me right now," Miller said at intermission. "It's figuring out the mood or the ambiance of the situation rather than really getting the detail into face details and things like that because that's just kind of impossible," Miller said.Īs for what that feeling and ambiance was: "It's a little bit of trying to just capture the feeling of the event more than like the likeness of the figures," Lorentz said. "This is a little bit of a stretch and out of my element, but sometimes that's when cool things happen, too," Miller said. Lorentz said she usually paints landscapes and Miller said that, while she would paint scenes like the opera in her gallery, she does not typically live paint. Miller, to join.īoth artists use paint as their medium, but live-event painting was a newer experience for them. She decided to try her hand at live-painting the concert while attending and invited her friend, Amy S. Sarah Lorentz was invited to attend the event as she will be creating the banner for OE next year. Louis artists attended the event to try to capture the feeling in the air on Friday. "They're letting us converse with them just a little bit and have fun with them as they're coming and going." And this being free, it just gives us an insight to it and something we would like to do. "We have always liked to have been able to go, but means can't afford it. "It's not just enjoying it, it's our access to opera," Cindy Cassady said. The Cassadys were at last year's OE outdoor concert and plan to attend any future events, as well.
"It's kind of nice to see everyone out visiting with each other, getting out." "It's been a blast we've had fun," Doug Cassady of Edwardsville said. "Everybody is excited and it's just a good time." "It's the vibe in the air you can feel it," said Cindy Cassady of Edwardsville.