I was employed as a paid operatic soloist countertenor or male alto for one month in the Junges Theater Goettingen Summer Opera 2002 under the following professional terms :

1. Basic Pay was 1000 Euros for the singer soloists four of us from Cologne Conservatoire Wuppertal Campus namely.

The players and singers were taken from our college and the Karol Sczyhmanowski school of music in Torun in Poland.

Karolina Brachmann (Soprano),

Anja Binkenstein (Soprano)

Hugh Waldock (Male Alto)

Mattias Repovs (Bass / Baritone)

Here are 3 of us in the programme photo:

2.We got free accommodation at the catholic student house in Goettingen

3.We got 1 meal a day namely lunch in the theatre cafe.

4.The remuneration was for 5 performances and thee weeks rehearsals 

We sang the opera fragment Don Quixote by Henry Purcell

We fleshed it out with some music from his other operas and masked balls as it remains unfinished

I got one solo and two duets

One Charming Night (Secrecy’s Aria from the Fairy Queene)

One charming night

Gives more delight

Than a hundred lucky days

Night and I 

pursue the taste 

Make the pleasure longer last

A thousand simple ways.

Duets 

I opened the show with Let the Fifes and the Clarions

Also form the Fairy Queene with a polish alto Paulina Czaposka

I also sang Riding Through the Whistling Air with Karolina Brachmann from The Indian Queen

They Shall be as Happy form The Fairy Queene)

I also took part in performances of the following opera choruses by Purcell.

Now the Night is Chac’d away ( Fairy Queene)

When a cruel long winter has frozen the earth (Fairy Queene)

Hail! (Fairy Queene)

Brave Souls (King Arthur)

Come if you dare (King Arthur)

I call you all to Woden’s Hall (King Arthur)

Hymen Apper (Fairy Queene)

Chorus of Knights (King Arthur)

From Funeral Music for Queen Mary also

Thou Knowest Lord the Secrets of Our Hearts

As the resident countertenor I was also roped into playing Dulcinea Don Quixote’s wife

It was a non speaking role 

It consisted of me wearing a big blue bra strapped over a dinner suit

Running on with my handbag and doing a high pitched giggle

Being bent over backwards over Don Quioxtes knee and planted a sweaty one on the lips.

This is proof I was paid for it!

At least an advance of pay of 250 euros