December 16, 2014
SO YOU WANT TO BE A SUPER??
Sarasota, FL – Sarasota Opera is seeking enthusiastic outgoing people to serve as supernumeraries, or “supers”, the non-singing extras in opera productions, and acrobats for its 2015 Winter Festival Season production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s fairy tale opera The Golden Cockerel.
Supers will take the parts of guards, servants, pages, and bizarre masked characters (unicorn lady, unicorn man, goat lady, goat men, etc.) Age range for these characters is from teenager to 60s.
To be considered for a super role, you must:
- Must be taller than 5’ 2”
- Be physically fit
- Be able to perform onstage without glasses
- Be able to walk on slopes and stairs
- Be able to wear elaborate and sometimes very heavy costumes
- Be able to see in both dim and bright light
- Men must be willing to shave
Sarasota Opera is also searching for two trained acrobats who are able to walk across the stage on their hands and/or do flips or aerial cartwheels.
Being a super requires both daytime and evening availability from January 27, 2015 through March 19, 2015 but it is not a daily commitment. Rehearsals will be limited to Tuesday and Thursday evenings, and during the day on Saturday. A definitive calendar will be distributed closer to the start of rehearsals for The Golden Cockerel.
If you would like to volunteer as a super or as an acrobat, please contact Director of Artistic Administration Greg Trupiano at [email protected] or by phone at (941) 366-8450, ext. 534.
ABOUT SARASOTA OPERA
Sarasota Opera, fondly known as “Verdi’s American Home”, enters its 56th consecutive season of bringing world class opera to the southwest gulf coast. Consistently garnering international attention as one of the few places to experience rarely performed operatic works, Sarasota Opera continues to distinguish itself as one of the premiere opera companies in the United States by finding innovation through tradition. The 2014-2015 festival season will include Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Puccini’s Tosca, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Rimsky-Korsakov’s rarely seen The Golden Cockerel, and Verdi’s Don Carlos, the original Paris version, continuing Sarasota Opera’s Verdi Cycle, the company’s commitment to performing all the works of Verdi by 2016.
Sarasota Opera makes it’s home in the historic Sarasota Opera House which has been referred to as “one of America’s finest venues for opera” by the prestigious Musical America. Originally built in 1926 as the A.B. Edwards Theater, the building was purchased by the opera company in 1979 and officially raised its curtain as the Sarasota Opera House in 1984. From 2007-2008, the building underwent a $20-million top-to-bottom renovation and restoration. The intimate scale of the theater (with 1,119 seats) and its excellent acoustics make it the perfect place to experience the magic of opera.
Sarasota Opera is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Programs are supported in part by an award the Tourist Development Tax through the Board of County Commissioners, the Tourist Development Council and the Sarasota County Arts Council. Additional funding is provided by the City of Sarasota and the County of Sarasota.
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