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MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE IS LOOKING FOR “TROUBLE
DETROIT, Michigan, October 22, 2008...Michigan Opera Theatre is looking for a small girl or boy, between 3-5 years old to play “Trouble,” Madame Butterfly’s son, in the upcoming opera production of Madame Butterfly (Nov. 15-23). Open auditions will be held Monday, October 27th at 6 p.m. at the Detroit Opera House. In this non-speaking role, the child needs to be able to follow directions and must be under 3 ½ feet tall. For more information, or to RSVP for an audition, please contact Elizabeth Anderson at (313) 237-3405, or email elizabeth@motopera.org.
Casting will also take place for 8 men supernumeraries, or “extras” in Madame Butterfly, on October 27th. Four men are needed as stage servants of the Kabuki Theater and four are needed to serve during the action. To RSVP for these adult auditions, please contact Elizabeth Anderson at (313) 237-3405 or elizabeth@motopera.org.
About Madame Butterfly
Set in the city of Nagasaki, Madame Butterfly is a 15-year-old Japanese geisha who falls in love with and marries an American soldier, Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton, for whom she has renounced her family and faith. Soon, Pinkerton’s tour of duty in Japan is over, and he returns to the United States, leaving his wife, but promising to return. Time goes by, Butterfly has delivered their baby, and still she still believes Pinkerton will come back for her. Finally, Pinkerton returns to Japan - but with his new American wife. Mrs. Pinkerton pleads with Butterfly to leave the child with the Americans and in a tragic ending, Butterfly relinquishes the child but leaves the lieutenant and the audience with a beautiful aria of lost innocence and farewell.
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