Casting Call

Casting Call – Who Will Win the Crown?
Part of the Scene+Heard Festival 2026

Tickets €14 available from https://smockalley.com/sceneandheard/

Swordfights! French accents! Opera? Two plucky singers (a tenor and a mezzo soprano) but only one crown to play for. Who will hit the high notes and who will fall flat in this ‘charming’ operatic showdown? You decide!

WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Leanne Fitzgerald + Ben Escorcio
DIRECTED BY: Grace Morgan
PRODUCED BY: Bianca Baguio
PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT BY: Orlaith Sharkey
PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Ciarán Gallagher

Contains musical excerpts from Jules Massenet’s ‘Cendrillon’, Pauline Viardot’s ‘Cendrillon’ and Bedřich Smetana’s ‘The Bartered Bride’. English translations by Leanne Fitzgerald and Ben Escorcio