OPERA HUNTER is excited to announce auditions are called for cast for GILBERT & SULLIVAN’S THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE – our production to be held JULY 26TH TO AUGUST 4TH 2019.
Amber Lewis will Direct & Sue Hart will Music Direct.
AUDITION DATES
FRIDAY 11TH JANUARY 6pm–9pm
SATURDAY 12TH JANUARY 9am–12pm, 1–5pm, (6pm–9pm if needed).
VENUE: Mercia Buck’s Studio, 1 Baikie Crescent, Charlestown
REHEARSALS COMMENCE SUNDAY 3RD FEBRUARY 2019.
CAST
RICHARD, THE PIRATE KING – BASS-BARITONE
SAMUEL, HIS LIEUTENANT – BARITONE
FREDERIC, PIRATE APPRENTICE – TENOR
MAJOR GENERAL STANLEY – BARITONE
EDWARD, SERGEANT OF POLICE – BASS
MABEL, GENERAL STANLEY’S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER – SOPRANO
KATE, GENERAL STANLEY’S DAUGHTER – MEZZO SOPRANO
EDITH, GENERAL STANLEY’S DAUGHTER – MEZZO SOPRANO
ISABEL, GENERAL STANLEY’S DAUGHTER – SPEAKING ROLE
RUTH, A PIRATICAL MAID OF-ALL-WORK – CONTRALTO
CHORUS – NB. Opera Hunter current Chorus are automatically invited without audition. Please indicate your interest.
SONGS FOR AUDITIONS
PIRATE KING – “Oh better far to live & die”
SAMUEL – Gilbert & Sullivan Song
FREDERIC – “Stop Ladies Pray”
MAJOR GENERAL – “I am the very model of a modern major general”
SERGEANT OF POLICE –“When the foeman bares his steel”
MABEL – “Poor wand’ring one”
KATE – Gilbert & Sullivan Song
EDITH – Gilbert & Sullivan Song
ISABEL – Gilbert & Sullivan Song
RUTH – “When Fred’rick was a little lad”
Be prepared to do a cold read.