Actor - Candide

Scottish Opera is inviting actors who identify as Jewish, to audition to play a variety of male characters in our promenade community production of Candide by Leonard Bernstein. Actors should have a playing age of between 30 and 65 years, and ideally be based in, or close to, Glasgow. We welcome applications from Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews.

This role is for you if you want to get stuck into a huge operatic, site-specific spectacle, and you're interested in working with a large cast of mixed professionals and amateurs. Bernstein’s piece deals comedically and anarchically with questions of identity, assimilation, travel and displacement, and we welcome approaches from potential collaborators who would feel able to be a strong, active voice in the room on these subjects.

The production will be performed in Glasgow in August 2022.

Conductor Stuart Stratford
Director Jack Furness
Designer Tim Meacock
Lighting Designer Clare O'Donoghue
Choreographer Maisie Newman
Associate Director Annemiek van Elst

Applicants must be fully available for the period Monday 27 June 2022– Saturday 20 August 2022 inclusive.

At Scottish Opera, our mission is to speak powerfully through all our work in order to entertain, inspire, surprise, challenge and delight audiences throughout Scotland, the rest of the UK and internationally. We know that having a diverse workforce is essential if we are going to deliver our mission.

We are committed to promoting equality and ensuring that no one is denied opportunities or discriminated against through prejudice or exclusion due to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We particularly encourage applications from people that are under-represented in the Performing Arts and at Scottish Opera including those from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and disabled people. We have supportive working practices and work towards providing wherever possible a working environment that is inclusive and accessible for those with caring responsibilities.

This diversity of thought paired with a culture of inclusion is vital for us to continue to create work that is for everyone. This makes Scottish Opera a great place to work, where people are valued for who they are.

We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally.

Scottish Opera strives to be an equal opportunities employer and is subsidised by the Scottish Government.  Registered Number SC037531. Scottish Charity Number SC019787.