Email auditions@kasjog.co.uk for an Audition Application Form.

CLOSING DATE IS 24th AUGUST, 10pm.

Alternatively send the following information to the email address above:

Name, address, mobile, email address, voice type, main role you would like to audition for plus up to 3 alternatives, and if you would like to be considered for any other role, including chorus. 

An audition fee of £15 is payable and if successful this will be deducted from the performance fee. 

DUKE OF PLAZA TORO (Comic Baritone)

Music

Act I No 3 – first verse and chorus (page 60 – 62)

Dialogue

Preceding dialogue (page 15-16)

From DUCHESS: A secret which for State reasons it has been necessary to preserve for twenty years.

To DUKE: … and to hail you, our daughter, as Her Majesty, the reigning Queen of Barataria.

NB Barataria is to rhyme with ‘aria’ not ‘area’. Gilbert took it from Cervantes’ Don Quixote.

LUIZ (High Baritone/Lyric Tenor)

Music

Act I No 4 – verse 2 “Ah, well beloved” to end (page 66 – 67)

Dialogue

Following dialogue (page 18)

From CASILDA: I have just learnt to my surprise and indignation ….

To LUIZ: As we may revel in nought else, let us revel in that.

NB Barataria is to rhyme with ‘aria’ not ‘area’. Gilbert took it from Cervantes’ Don Quixote.

DON ALHAMBRA (Baritone)

Music

Act I No 6 – first verse only (page 72 – 73)

Dialogue

Following dialogue (page 21)

From Casilda: Then do you mean to say.

To DON ALHAMBRA: … the persuasive influence of the torture chamber will jog her memory.

MARCO (Tenor)

Music

Act II No 3 – verse 2 to the end (page 143 – 145)

Dialogue

Preceding dialogue (pages 37 to 38)

From GIUSEPPE: … No, they let us have all the fun ourselves, and never seem to grudge it.

To MARCO: … There is only one recipe for perfect happiness.

GIUSEPPE (High Baritone/Tenor)

Music

Act II No 2 – first verse until chorus entry (page 138 – top of 142)

NB The words used in performance will be different.

Dialogue

Preceding dialogue (page 36)

From ANNIBALE: … Situated as we are we can’t recognize two independent responsibilities.

To GIUSEPPPE: … the least we can do is to make ourselves useful about the Palace.

DUCHESS OF PLAZA TORO (Comic Mezzo)

Music

Act II No 9 – second verse only (page 187 – 190)

Dialogue

Preceding dialogue (pages 50 to 51)

From DUKE: Be good enough to inform His Majesty ….

To DUCHESS: Several of my relations bet I couldn’t, but I did – desperately.

CASILDA (Soprano)

Music

Act II No 12 - bar 33 – 77 “O moralists all” to end of that section (page 207 – 211)

AND

Act I No 5 – verse 2 “Dead as the last year’s leaves” to end (page 70-71)

Dialogue

Preceding dialogue Act I No 5 (page 18)

From CASILDA: O Luiz, Luiz – what have you said!

To CASILDA: Henceforth my life is another’s.

NB Barataria is to rhyme with ‘aria’ not ‘area’. Gilbert took it from Cervantes’ Don Quixote.

GIANETTA (Soprano)

Music

Act I No 1 page 45 – 46 “Thank you gallant gondolieri” until letter E (Tessa’s entry)

Dialogue

Dialogue Act II between Nos 6 & 7 (pages 45 to 46)

From DON ALHAMBRA: … Dear, dear, what will Her Majesty say?

To GIANETTA: And one of us is married to one of you and the other is married to nobody

TESSA (Soprano)

Music

Act II No 7 page 178 – 182 “If I overtake her I’ll warrant I’ll make her” to end

AND

Act I No 9 – ending only. From “Sullen night is laughing day” to end (page 94 – 95)

Dialogue

Dialogue following Act II No 4 (page 41)

From MARCO: This is indeed a most delightful surprise!

To TESSA: A banquet and a dance! Oh, it’s too much happiness!

OTHER ROLES

ANTONIO (Baritone)

Use the Giuseppe audition pieces.

Dialogue

Take the dialogue from the Annibale audition piece.

FRANCESCO (High Baritone)

Use the Marco audition pieces.

GIORGIO (Bass)

Music

Use the Duke of Plaza Toro audition pieces

Dialogue

Use the Giuseppe audition pieces.

ANNIBALE (speaking role only)

Dialogue

Dialogue following Act II No 1 (page 36)

From GIUSEPPE: Now, although we act as one person we are in point of fact, two persons.

To ANNIBALE: … in the event of an adverse decision.

NB Annibale’s words may be spoken by Antonio or Francesco.

FIAMETTA (Soprano)

Use the Gianetta audition pieces.

VITTORIA (Mezzo/Contralto)

Use the Tessa audition pieces.

GIULIA (Mezzo)

Use the Tessa audition pieces.

INEZ

Music

Act II No 12 – Inez solo at bar 127 (page 214-215) “The Royal Prince”

NB Inez also appears during the Overture in a miming role 20 years younger.