Sitzprobe

A seat fitting in opera or musical theater is a musical sample, composed of the singers and the orchestra, in which not act the singers on the stage, but sit just like the orchestra and, where necessary, hold their sheet music in hand. They are led by conductor, while the scenic samples mainly subordinate to the director.

Seat samples are important samples in which for the first time meet singers and orchestra. Ideally, samples are held seat in the theater where the acoustics of the final sound comes closest. For technical reasons, but a trial seat samples must often be held in the orchestra rehearsal room. The theater choir with piano seat is preparing samples prior to his task. For particularly demanding musical works, there are also piano seat samples with the entire ensemble from the orchestra seats samples. The joint work of singers and orchestra continues in stage rehearsals. For CD recordings only seat samples are required.