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AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS-CHATOM
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ID # 52623
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Live Event
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Submission Type |
Open Call
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| Location |
Chatham, NJ |
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Non-union
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| Rate/Pay |
n/a
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Release Date |
08-27-06
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| Audition Date |
12-31-69
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Submission Deadline |
09-18-06
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| Shoot Date |
12-31-69
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| Casting Category |
Theatre - Non-Equity
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| Market(s) |
New York City, NY |
Non-professional and professional performers with experience in opera or musical theatre are encouraged to audition. The show will feature a 21 piece live orchestra.
“Amahl and the Night Visitors” is the story of a young, crippled boy, Amahl, and the miracle that cures him. It was first performed on 24 December 1951 in New York City, at NBC studios, where it was broadcast on television. The opera is now a popular family Christmas classic. Amahl is full of humor, wonder, and drama, and the music is tuneful and charming.
Constantine Kitsopoulos, who is General Director of Chatham Opera, will be conducting the production. Kitsopoulos is a resident of Chatham. On Broadway he was music director and conductor for Baz Luhrmann’s production of “La Bohème”, Matthew Bourne’s “Swan Lake” and “Les Misèrables” among others. Kitsopoulos is teaming up again with Robert Pridham on this exciting collaboration between Chatham Opera and Chatham Community Players. Having directed “Master Class”, "Proof", "How I Learned To Drive", "Side Man" and several other shows, Pridham returns as our director.
Performers should come prepared to sing either an aria in English or a traditional musical theatre song in the style of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Bock & Harnick, etc., which shows off their voice to its best advantage.
NOTE: ALL TALENT UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN AT ALL TIMES
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
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Amahl (boy soprano) – a shepherd boy between 10 and 12 years old.
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Gender: Male
Age: from 10 to 12 |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
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Mother (soprano or mezzo) – age range between 25 – 40.
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Gender: Female
Age: from 25 to 40 |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
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King Kaspar (tenor) – age range between 25 – 40
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 25 to 40 |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
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King Melchior (baritone) – age range between 35 – 45
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Gender: Male
Age: from 35 to 45 |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
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King Balthazar (bass) – age range between 40 – 50.
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 40 to 50 |
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Seeking 12 talent(s) for this role
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12 Voice Chorus of villagers and shepherds consisting of 3 sopranos, 3 altos, 3 tenors and 3 basses. Additionally, there are two dancers, one male and one female.
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Gender: Male Female
Age: from 18 to 65 |
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Seeking 2 talent(s) for this role
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Additionally, there are two dancers, one male and one female.
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male Female
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"I love to think of those connections, and I love to think that the composers spoke to each other and knew each other intimately," Zander said in an interview after the concert "
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Before the Boston musicians played a note of Mahler's Second at its recent concert at Carnegie Hall, Zander worked his magic on the audience, speaking for about 40 minutes about the massive piece known as the "Resurrection Symphony
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"I'm endlessly fascinated by the music's language â€â€? what it's saying "What is that about? Well it's about the triumph of the human spirit
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In Gustav Mahler's day a century ago, the carriage driver would deliver the maestro to the concert hall but never think of going inside for a listen The vitality that human beings have, the capacity to dance â€â€? the cosmic pulse of life
It must embrace everything "It begins in anguish and ends in glory
True, many were friends or relatives of the 235 people on stage (119-member orchestra and 116-voice choir)
Outside music, Zander has given what he calls transformational talks to corporate executives and has addressed at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, three times "
If that doesn't work, he said, he'll even pay the orchestra members extra out of his own pocket
"It unleashes the most powerful sounds ever heard in a symphony," Zander told the audience He also teaches at the New England Conservatory and leads its youth orchestra and has been a guest conductor at several major orchestras It has been translated into 14 languages What a sound! What an awesome, gigantic, momentous sound! `The proclamation of the voice of death,' wrote the conductor and close friend of Mahler, Willem Mengelberg, in his score above the passage " He recalled how Mahler himself performed it from the same stage in 1908
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As screeching high woodwinds seemingly flee from the fitful approach of an army of low brass instruments in the first movement, Zander says on the disc: "Listen to this passage! It's hard to think of another composer before Mahler who would use sounds so raw, harsh and uncouth, like grotesque misshapen demons at war with each other " And, he said, the final two pizzicato chords in the first movement alluded to the end of Beethoven's Coriolan Overture â€â€? most certainly signifying two spades of dirt being dropped on the hero's grave Some of them view preconcert discussions as a distraction that prevents them from last-minute practicing
Conductor Benjamin Zander is doing what he can to change that com/
A self-described outsider, Zander is the founding conductor of Boston's "other orchestra" â€â€? the upstart Boston Philharmonic
His trademark is a preconcert lecture to the audience in the concert hall
The concert was on Oscar night â€â€? when one would expect most people to stay home to watch the Academy Awards, but Zander packed them in
