Auditions are hereby announced for Opera South East's production of Il Trovatore  for performances on 24th & 25 April 2015.  The main auditions themselves were held on Sunday afternoon, 14 December 2014.  Please indicate your interest here and our chairman, John Rycroft will immediately be informed.  The closing date for audition applications is Thursday 4th December; a few days later you will be advised of your audition time.  

If selected for audition, you will be asked to sing a piece in English, preferably by Verdi though not necessarily from Il Trovatore.

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About Il Trovatore, OSE and our audition format

OSE are performing Verdi's Il Trovatore, in English, on Friday 24th & Saturday 25th of April 2015 at the White Rock Theatre, Hastings. 

We will be auditioning for the principal roles on Sunday 14 December 2014 at the John Taplin Centre, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex TN38 0LQ, tentatively from 1pm-5:30pm. 

Apply here on the form to the left by Thursday 4th December and you will be informed of your personal audition time a few days later.
We also very much welcome new members of the chorus - see Join us and Contact us.

Please see the notes below before submitting your audition application...

Notes on Principal audition applications:

• Please provide with your application any holiday dates where you will not be available for rehearsal.  Everyone is expected for all calls for the week of the performances and the two Sundays before (Sunday 12th April, afternoon, and Sunday 19th April) and then every day of show-week
• Please select an audition piece in English, and preferably by Verdi (though not necessarily from Il Trovatore)

• We will then contact applicants via email (where possible) or phone with confirmation of your audition time and the results of your audition
• Castings will not be notified to the rest of the company until all the roles have been offered and accepted

• Audition applications to be returned to The Chairman by Thursday 4th December 2014.  There is no guarantee of later applications being accommodated.

Notes on the OSE rehearsal schedule:

• Rehearsals are usually from 2-5pm on Sunday afternoons in St Leonards-on-Sea.

• Chorus music rehearsals will take place in January and February, every Sunday from 18th January, however Principals are only required from the start of production rehearsals with the Director, Fraser Grant, commencing Sunday 1st March 2015.
  

• There may be additional Principal rehearsals in London at other times to be mutually agreed.
• During the period of production rehearsals, there will also be additional weekday evening Chorus rehearsals, where the focus will be entirely on music.  Principals are welcome but not expected. 
  

       However Principals are expected for the following additionally: -

• 12th  April: extended rehearsal (times tbc)
  
• 19th  April: final rehearsal at 1-10pm
• 20th  April: Sitzprobe at 7-10pm
• 21st  April: Tech rehearsal from 6.00 -10pm
• 22nd April: Dress rehearsal #1 fom 6.00pm
• 23rd  April: Dress rehearsal #2 from 6.00pm
• 24th  April: Performance at 6pm for 7.30pm curtain-up
  
• 25th  April: Performance at 6pm for 7.30pm curtain-up

Audition & rehearsal location