Overview
Character Name
Petra
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Dancing
Non Dancer
Voice
Mezzo-Soprano
Vocal Technique
Belting
Time & Place
Late nineteenth-early twentieth century, Sweden
Analysis
Petra is the Egerman’s “charming, easy-going maid” who, at 21, serves as Anne Egerman’s personal confidante and sometime advisor in matters of men. In her eleven o’clock number “The Miller’s Son”, Petra claims never to be one to miss an opportunity for pleasure, and she
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