Sitzprobe

English

Noun

Sitzprobe (plural Sitzprobes)

1. Alternative form of sitzprobe
   • 2013, Carole Matthews, Welcome to the Real World:

     I'm still feeling absolutely wrung out after listening to the Sitzprobe rehearsal today.

   • 2014, Jeffry Denman, A Year with the Producers: One Actor's Exhausting (But Worth It) Journey From Cats To Mel Brooks' Mega-hit:

     Singing at the Sitzprobe is something that will help lift his spirits. I'm glad they let him.

   • 2015, Ethan Mordden, The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen, page 82:

     Composed in a kind of atonal tonality, Don Juan Triumphant stumps and angers the singers at a Sitzprobe till the rehearsal keyboard suddenly breaks into the music by itself and the spellbound singers perform the score like robots ready for Metropolis.