Audition Notice: Little LOON School Tour

Audition for Lyric Opera of the North’s touring company, Little Opera of the North, and tour northern Minnesota as a teaching artist!

Little LOON is casting its upcoming tour of the Opera for the Young adaptation of Dvorak’s Rusalka.
Touring company will be cast from video submissions only. Please send resume and video with one aria in English, plus any one other aria that best represents ability to sing the role, to info@loonopera.org. Submission deadline is Friday, August 9.

Little Opera of the North is the touring program from Lyric Opera of the North, based in Duluth, MN. During the coming school year, LOON anticipates visiting nearly 40 schools throughout the Arrowhead Region and across northern Minnesota. Little LOON uses the brilliantly adapted scores and teaching materials from Opera for the Young, based in Madison, Wisconsin. The 45-minute adaptation will double cast for Rusalka (soprano), Jezibaba / Foreign Princess (mezzo-soprano), Prince (tenor) and Sea King / Prime Minister (baritone).

Cast members drive the tour van, load and unload set pieces, and train student performers for 7 – 10 shows per week. Compensation is $75 per show plus $40 per diem during out-of-Duluth days. Travel and lodging are provided while on tour. Each artist receives lodging and $500 for the mandatory rehearsal period.

Rehearsal Week – All Artists Called: September 29 – October 5, 2024.
We anticipate 5 full weeks of touring. Two weeks in October, three weeks in February 2025. The tour is double cast, therefore each artist will tour 2 or 3 of these weeks.
Detailed information provided upon audition request.

Music by Antonin Dvorak
Original libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil
Music adapted by Jeffrey Sykes
New libretto by Diane Garton Edie
Stage Direction by Calland Metts

Lyric Opera of the North
525 S Lake Avenue
Duluth, MN 55802
218.464.0922
info@loonopera.org / www.loonopera.org
Please contact us with any questions.