Deadline: 05 May 2025 at 00:00
Delululand is looking for an opera singer to work on our show The Pathetic Planet.
The Pathetic Planet is an absurdist, galactic opera, featuring rigorous visual world-building based on DIY-craft and a non-traditional approach to music/voice modulation. Through image-based storytelling, alternative drag, and dark humour, the show explores themes of existentialism, mass consumption, environmental/war anxiety, and identity loss.
The narrative is set on a galactic planet and follows various characters (alien drag queens, genderless-monsters, clowns, and humanoid-adult-babies) trying to find solace, meaning, and ecstasy in a catastrophic world. The characters experience a similar emotional arc (from delusion to apathy), unpacking different extreme phenomena. The story is narrated by different stars, who try to guide the characters through an electronic opera.
We are currently funded by Creative Scotland to develop and produce the show.
At this stage, the job will include:
1. 1 week of learning the music and text by heart; working by yourself with the annotation, and with the composer (£601 for the week, rate according to ITC).
2. 1 week of rehearsal; learning the show and running (£601 for the week, rate according to ITC).
3. 3 hours of recording (£75; £25 per hour, rate according to ITC).
4. 2 Days of Technical residency + private sharing for industry and friends that will be recorded (£266 - £133 per day, rate according to ITC).
Overall pay for development stage: £1,543.
We are still finalising the schedule, but the dates for rehearsal and recording are going to be in August (2 weeks in a row), and the tech is going to be in the week of the 25th of August.
The plan after this stage is to build a Scottish tour that will include 2 weeks of performing at the fringe in 2026. We are already in discussion with three festivals and are planning to develop more connections through the industry sharing and promotional pack. From the Scottish tour, we would like to build a UK one, and so on.
The idea is that the team we will build for this development stage will continue with us to the touring.
To apply for the role and any further enquiries, please email your CV, a short cover letter, and a link to your showreel to the email below:
Delululandforever@gmail.com
Deadline for application: 5th of May.
Successful applicants would be shortlisted and invited for an audition.
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