More used to being in the audience than on stage, last November a troupe of Allen & Overy lawyers and staff took over Sadler’s Wells to play Carmen. Carine Chassol (pictured) reports how her amateur operatics landed her a role in the firm’s production
Unless you have an intrinsic passion for loan relationships and derivatives contracts regulations and consider these your hobbies, it is not easy to cultivate your pastimes while working at a major corporate law firm. However, being a partner at Allen & Overy (A&O), my job has allowed me to participate in an extraordinary production of Carmen, produced thanks to the help of over 100 employees at the firm on Sunday 6 November 2011 at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London.
