Upcoming Auditions: Alcina Reimagined (Händel)

• ruggiero

• Bradamante

• Melisso (recit only)

This is a VERY abridged workshop production. We are looking for those who are equally strong singers and actors. This shortened production will be a new telling / re-framing of the story (see below for more details). RUGIERO and BRADAMANTE will be asked to devote one day of time to virtual production.

The workshop will be performed for an invited audience.

AUDITION AND SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

PRELIMINARY AUDITION: SEPTEMBER 30 -

Submit to immersionrep@gmail.com:

1. Headshot and resume

2. A short video recording (A and B section only, no need for da capo) of a Händel aria or another Baroque or Classical Era aria that is stylistically similar to that of the character for which you are auditioning

   *In the subject line, please put AUDITION: CHARACTER AUDITIONING FOR/YOUR NAME

   e.g. AUDITION: Ruggiero/Jacqui Smith

OCTOBER 13, EVENING - CALLBACKS -

If you are asked to a callback, we will ask you sing either a cut aria we will provide OR an aria similar in character to those cuts.

*We will notify everyone who submits, regardless of casting

production details

Music rehearsals - November 13-19; Nov. 27-December 2 (based on cast availability); December 3

Staging rehearsals -December 4-8 & 11-13: 6-9pm

Tech and Dress - December 14 (call time TBD, DAY AND EVENING AVAILABILITY NECESSARY, UP TO 6 HOURS)

Workshop Performance - December 16, 8:00 GO (call time TBD, as early at 5:00pm)

RUGGIERO and BRADAMANTE - Virtual production recording date (no singing) early November, based on availability

STIPEND:

MELISSO: $200

RUGGIERO & BRADAMANTE: $250

Alcina Reimagined examines the story from a more nuanced, feminist perspective. In previous interpretations of Alcina, we understand the women represented to be sorceresses who lure men to their island and discard them when they become bored. But, what if there is more to their story? As the typical narrative and composition of the work is derived from the male perspective, what if Alcina were performed from the womens' perspective? 

• Utilizing the software Unreal Engine and Neuron Perception 3’s motion capture technology, we offer insight into perspectives of various characters’ perspectives.

Through the fantasy backdrop of Alcina, filled with island magic, we are not just producing an opera by creating a world.  We are thinking about stories that have been presented to us for generations and re-imagining them, inviting our audiences to do the same.  We believe as we open to new ways of seeing and storytelling in art that we also will have the ability to understand the stories of our histories through new perspectives.