Supernumerary: Wikepedia tells us that a supernumerary is "from the Latin supernumerarius, meant someone paid to appear on stage in crowd scenes or in the case of opera as non-singing small parts." I've been a super for six years now, acting in eight productions between the San Francisco and San Diego Opera companies. My non-singing roles: whore, fainting whore, virgin priestess, tourist, favorite attendant to the queen, ugly washerwoman, german maiden, townswoman, townwoman, did I mention, townswoman? Check out my collection of pictures, costumes and backstage misadventures!