Sits, stands and other instructions

    PART I

    STAND at entrance of Conductor and soloists.

    No.s 4 and 5 are cut.

    SIT Page 30, bottom line; bar 2 of no. 8.

    STAND Page 38, top line, bar 29, second time (note the da capo).

    SIT Page 43, at end of no. 16.

    STAND Page 50 at end of bar 10.

    SIT at bottom of Page 68, bar 82.

    STAND Page 74, bar 9.

    SIT Page 75, at the end of no. 31.

    STAND Page 79, before no. 33 (chorus 1, be ready to come in at the start of page 80!)

    SIT Page 96, at the end of no.33.

    STAND Page 99 at very beginning of no. 35.

    Sing to the end of Part I and remain standing, and motionless.

    Sit at signal.

    INTERVAL

    PART II

    File onto platform and sit.  No. 36 is cut.

    Listen to the Evangelist’s recitativos – No.s 37 + 42. (No.s 38 - 41, inclusive, are cut.)

    STAND Page 130, at end of bar 12 of no. 42.

    Be ready, Page 135, at the end of no. 43, to begin the Chorale on the next page.

    SIT Page 138 at the end of the final bar of the page (bar 4).

    STAND Page 144 at beginning of bar 53.

    SIT Page 147 at the end of the final bar of No. 49.

    No. 50 is cut from the end of bar 4.

    STAND Page 152, bar 64 (ready to sing no. 53 on page 155 – no. 52 is cut).

    No.s 55, 57 and 58 are cut.

    SIT Page 172, bar 36

    STAND at the Fine marked at bar 64 of no. 61 (page 177). The rest of this aria is cut.

    Turn early at the end of page 179, and be ready to sing, “Hail, hail King”

    At bar 6 of no. 64 (top system, page 183), turn straight to page 189 – there’s a cut from this point of no. 64 to the end of no. 66.

    SIT Page 200, end of final bar of no. 67.

    STAND Page 202, end of no. 69.

    No. 70 is cut.

    Bars 21 - 30 of no. 73 are CUT.

    SIT Page 215, end of no. 73.

    STAND Bar 79 of No 75.

    No. 76 is cut.

    Stay standing till end.