Becoming Santa Claus — Cast and Instrumentation
PRINCIPALS | |
Queen Sophine | Lyric-coloratura mezzo-soprano. |
Donkey Messenger | Basso cantante. |
The Elves1 | |
Yan | high lyric soprano. |
Ib | mezzo-contralto. |
Yab | lyric tenor. |
Ob | bass-buffo. |
INSTRUMENTATION | |
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1 – While the Elves must perform as traditional opera singers, casting should favor singers with other vocal skills such as jazz improvisation, rap, and/or quasi-percussive choral utterance, as their principal sequence, the toy quartet, will extend as far outside traditional operatic technique as taste and ability will permit.