ETC: Singers for “Mr Choufleuri restera chez lui” (6-7 May)

« Audition notice for singers: “Mr Choufleuri restera chez lui”: November 2015

We are looking for chorus members and some soloists for a short Offenbach opera in November!

ETCetera asbl (Don Juan, Beckett, An evening of Strindberg, Absurd absurd etc.) is putting on Offenbach’s “Mr Choufleuri restera chez lui”, an amusing one act comic opera that pokes fun at the bourgeoisie and at Italian opera. In French.

Musical director Elizabeth Flynn, stage director Anna Holmén.

We are looking for members of a chorus of 8-12 singers:

  • Sopranos
  • Altos
  • Tenors
  • Basses

We are also looking for the following trained soloists (with a reasonable French accent – soloists will also have speaking roles):

  1. Choufleuri – middle aged plus – high baritone
  2. Ernestine, his daughter – age up to 40, to play a role of early 20s – soprano
  3. Babylas, Ernestine’s admirer – age up to 45 – high tenor
  4. Peterman, Choufleuri’s manservant – age immaterial – tenor or high baritone
  5. Balandard, a henpecked husband – middle aged plus – baritone
  6. Madame Balandard, a domineering wife – middle aged plus – mezzo soprano

Performances will be Nov 11-14 2015, at Theatre Petit Varia, rue Gray, with tech rehearsal on Nov 8 and dress rehearsal on Nov 10. Rehearsals initially at any rate will probably be Wednesday evenings in Etterbeek.

We are having first Auditions on 6/7 May, with probably others to follow.

If you plan to come on 6th or 7th May, or cannot come to one of these but would like to audition, please email info.etcetera2009@gmail.com or Anna Matthiessen (audition coordinator) at matisseanna@gmail.com; or call her on: 0476 074 442 for more information.