The fall 2008 version of the List is here. Please forgive any typos/inconsistencies. I’m a little distracted by trying to put together next summer’s rep while in a general state of post-audition-tour frazzledness. (OK, I made that up, but it’s a good word to have. Frazzlidity? Frazzlation?)
The Framework
315 singers were scheduled for an audition this year.
- 39% sopranos
- 16% mezzo-sopranos
- 2% countertenors
- 17% tenors
- 19% baritones
- 7% basses or bass-baritones
Each singer offers 4 arias in his/her audition, resulting in a sample of 1,260 arias. This list summarizes the frequency with which these selections were offered – not the frequency with which they were chosen during the actual audition.
We require one aria by either Mozart, Handel or Rossini; and one aria in English.
SOPRANO
Popular Pamina
Ach ich fühl’s (27X)
Blondchen in Second Place
Durch Zärtlichkeit (15X)
10-15 X
Caro nome
Deh vieni
Je veux vivre
No word from Tom / I go to him
Quando m’en vo
5-10 X
Ach ich liebte
Adieu notre petite table
Ah je ris (Jewel Song)
Ain’t it a pretty night
Amour ranime mon courage
Be kind and courteous
Chacun le sait
Chi il bel sogno di Doretta
Come scoglio
Da tempeste
Dearest Mama
Depuis le jour
Der Hölle Rache
Embroidery aria
Glitter and be gay
How beautiful it is
Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante
Je marche / Obéissons (Gavotte)
Je suis encor
O wär’ ich schon
Oh! quante volte
Piangerò
Porgi amor
Prendi per me
Presentation of the Rose
Quel guardo / So anch’io
Regnava nel silenzio
Song to the Moon (Rusalka)
Tornami a vagghegiar
Willow song
2-4 X
Adele’s Audition aria
Ah fors’è lui / Sempre libera
Ah! fuggi il traditor
Ah! non credea / Ah non giunge
Batti batti
Come now a roundel
Comme autrefois
D’Oreste d’Ajace
Das war sehr gut
Dich teure Halle
Dove sono
Du gai soleil
Einst träumte / Trübe Augen
Elle a fui
Ernani involami
Es gibt ein Reich
Fire aria
Il est doux
In uomini
Joy Beyond Measure, Mother
Klänge der Heimat (Czàrdàs)
Kommt ein schlanker Bursch’ gegangen
Lady with a hand mirror
Love me big
Mein Herr Marquis (Laughing song)
Mi tradì
Myself I shall adore
Non mi dir
Nun eilt herbei
O luce di quest’anima
Ombre pallide
Ou va la jeune Hindoue? (Bell song)
Padre germani addio
Par le rang / Salut à la France
Qui la voce
Sì mi chiamano Mimì
Silver Aria
Steal me
Stridono lassù
Sul fil d’un soffio
Tacea la notte / Di tale amor
Tatiana’s letter scene
Tiger! wetze nur die Klauen
To this we’ve come
Trees on the mountain
Tu che di gel
Un bel dì vedremo
Welche Wonne welche Lust
Once
A vos jeux
All that I ask (Beauty and the Beast – Giannini)
Always through the changing
Barbara! io ben lo so
Bel piacere
Bel raggio
Bester Jüngling
But you do not know this man
Cathedral Aria
Ch’io mi scordi di te…non temer amato bene
Come per me sereno
Cruda sorte
Di, cor mio
Divinités du Styx
E ben altro il mio sogno
Ebben! ne andrò lontana
Emily’s Aria from Our Town
Entre l’amour, Teresa (Benvenuto Cellini)
Fair Robin
Fear to the Sinner, Ades, The Tempest
Furie terribili
Gluck das mir verbliebt (Marietta’s Lied)
I want magic
I yearn so t’ know things (Cold Sassy Tree)
I’m full of happiness
In quelle trine morbide
Injurious Hermia
Iolanta’s aria
Je suis Titania
La Petenera (La Marchenera – Torroba)
Lagrimas Mias- Zarzuela
Laurie’s Song
Les oiseaux dans la charmille
Lisa’s Aria (Queen of Spades)
Marie’s Lullaby – Wozzeck
Meine Lippen Sie Kuessen So Heiss
No solo soy mi nombre
Non disperar
Non, monsieur mon marie
Now then, notebook Florence!
O mio babbino caro
O toi qui prolongeas mes jours
O zittre nicht
Och jaky zal… Ten lasky sen (Bartered Bride)
Or sai
Pleurez mes yeux
Plus de depit, plus de tristesse (Les deux Avares – Gretry)
Sabrina’s Aria (Colonel Jonathan the Saint – Argento)
Se tanto piace al cor
Senza mamma
Summertime
Sventurata (Clorinda)
Tanto amore segreto; Tu che di gel sei cinta
The Fairy Godmother’s Aria – Cendrillon
Traurigkeit
V’adoro pupille
Viljalied
Volta la terrea
What good would the moon be
What is man – The Mother of Us All
Zeffiretti lusinghieri
Zerbinetta’s aria
MEZZO
Dorabella & the Composer
Smanie implacabili (16X)
Sein wir wieder gut (13X)
5-10 X
Give him this orchid
Must the winter come so soon
Nobles Seigneurs salut
Non più mesta
Non so più
Parto parto
Que fais-tu
Svegliatevi nel core
Things change Jo
Una voce poco fa
Va! laisse couler mes larmes
Voi che sapete
2-4 X
All’afflitto è dolce il pianto
Connais-tu le pays
Cruda sorte
Deh per questo istante
È amore un ladroncello
Enfin je suis ici
Faites-lui mes aveux
I shall find for you (Lullaby)
Je vous ecris (Letter scene)
L’amour est un ouiseau rebelle (Habanera)
O mio Fernando
Pauline’s aria (Podrugi milïye)
Pres des remparts (Seguidilla)
Priva son d’ogni conforto
There is a garden
Thy hand Belinda / When I am laid in earth
Vois sous l’archet (Violin aria)
What a movie
Wie du warst
Once
Acerba voluttà
Ah quel diner (Tipsy Waltz)
Ah! mon fils
Amour! viens aider ma faiblesse
As I was saying
Begbick’s Act 1 Aria (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny)
Che farò
Con l’ali di costanza
Cruda furie
Di tanti palpiti
Disprezzata Regina
E destin! Debbo andarmene coraggio! (Musetta’s Aria from Leoncavallo’s Boheme)
Empio dirò tu sei
I am an actress (Nina’s aria)
I do not judge you John
I was standing in a garden
Iris hence away
L’angue offeso mai riposa
Lyubasha’s Aria from The Tsar’s Bride
Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix
Nimmermehr wird mein Herze
Non ha piu che temere
O ma lyre immortelle
O Pallida
Pensa alla patria
Per questa fiamma indomita
Presti omai
Printemps qui commence
Puppet, Why So?
Scherza infida
Sgombra è la sacra selva / Deh! Proteggimi
Spero per voi
Stella del marinar
The empty handed traveler
The Witch’s Aria – Haensel und Gretel
Torna di Tito al lato
Tu sola..Deh! tu, deh! tu, bell’anima
COUNTERTENOR
2-3 X
I know a bank
J’ai perdu mon Euridice/Che farò senza Euridice
Venti, turbini
Once
Al lampo dell’armi
Barbara!
Chacun à son goût
Cielo! se tu il consenti
Di tanti palpiti
Dolce d’amor compagna
Domero la tua fierezza
Il Padre Adorato
Lucidissima face
Rompo i Lacci
Stille Amare
Svegliatevi nel core
Torna di Tito a lato
TENOR
Tamino Takes All
Dies Bildnis (23X)
5-10 X
Ah lève-toi soleil
Here I stand
Il mio tesoro
Kuda kuda (Lenski)
Lonely House
New York Lights
O Colombina
O wie ängstlich
Un aura amorosa
Una furtiva lagrima
2-4 X
Addio fiorito asil
Ah fuyez
Ah mes amis
Albert the Good
Alles fühlt der Liebe Freuden
Che gelida manina
Dal labbro il canto
De’ miei bollenti spiriti
Dein is mein ganzes Herz
Ecco ridente
En fermant les yeux (La Rêve)
Firenze è come un albero
Frisch zum Kampfe
I must with speed amuse her
Ich baue ganz
Im Gegenteil (Tanzmeister)
Jour et nuit
Kleinzach
La donna è mobile
La fleur (Flower song)
Miles! (Quint’s aria)
Outside this house
Parmi veder le lagrime
Pourquoi me reveiller
Povero Ernesto
Quanto è bella
Questa o quella
Recondita armonia
Salut! demeure chaste e pure
Sì ritrovarla
Tarquinius does not wait
Un momento di contento
Vainement ma bien aimée
Once
Ah la paterna mano
Ah! Je vais l’aimer
Amor ti vieta
Aria of the Worm
Au mont Ida (Judgment of Paris)
Avant de quitter ces lieux
Celeste Aida
Cessa di più resistere
Ch’ella mi creda
Ciel e terra armidi ?
De este apacible rincon de Madrid
Del Destino (Florencia en el Amazonas)
Dentro il mio petto
Di ad Irene
Donna non vidi mai
È la solita storia
Fantaisie aux divins mensonges
Fatto inferno…Pastorello d’un povero armento
Forte e lieto
Fra poco a me ricoverò
Gott! Welch Dunkel hier!
It Ain’t Necessarily so
It’s about the way people is made
Je l’ai vue
Love sounds th’alarm
Nessun dorma
Se all’impero
Sotto una quercia parvemi
Svegliatevi nel core
Total Eclipse
Tra sospetti
Tradito schernito
Tu vivi, e punito
Warm as the autumn light
Where e’er you walk
BARITONE
Baritone National Anthems
Hai già vinta la causa (23X)
Avant de quitter ces lieux (17X)
10-15 X
Ah! per sempre
Billy in the Darbies
Largo al factotum
Mein Sehnen (Pierrot’s Tanzlied)
Papageno’s suicide aria
5-9 times
Come Paride vezzose
E fra quest’ansie (Silvio)
Lieben Hassen
Mab
O du mein holder Abendstern
O Nadir
Onegin’s aria
Per me giunto / Io morrò
Questo amor
Rivolgete
Yeletsky’s aria (Ya vas lyublu)
2-4 X
Aprite un po quegli occhi
Bella siccome un angelo
Come un’ ape
Deh, vieni alla finestra
Der Vogelfänger
Di Provenza
É sogno?
In youth the panting slave
Madamina
Maxim’s
O vin dissipe la tristesse
Onegin’s Second Aria
Schaunard’s aria
Sois immobile
Vien Leonora
Warm as the autumn light
When the air sings of summer
Within this frail crucible
Once
Ah! Je Meurs – Don Carlos – Verdi
Blick ich umher’
C’est mon jour supreme
Choa En-lai’s aria (Nixon in China)
Clayton McAllister’s aria (Cold Sassy Tree)
Credo in un Dio crudel
Cruda funesta smania
Dieux qui me poursuivez
Do you know the land?
Donne mie
Ein Mädchen
Era eguale la voce (Gianni Schicchi)
Ha! Welch ein Augenblick
Heiterkeit und Fröhlichkeit – Der Wildschütz (Lorzing)
I Can’t Tell You (Grapes of Wrath)
Il balen
I’ll be there (Grapes of Wrath)
Joseph’s confession
L’onore! Ladri!
Minnie, dalla mia casa son partito
My Friends
News has a kind of mystery
Non più andrai
Non siate ritrosi
Raimbaud’s Aria from Le Comte Ory
Riez, Allez, Riez Du Pauvre Ideologue
Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo
Scintille, diamant
See the raging flames arise
Si corre dal notaio (Gianni Schicchi)
Single bed blanket (Willie Stark – Floyd)
Snooks Aria from A Wedding (Bolcom)
Soliloquy from Carousel
Spectre infernal
Tomsky’s Ballad from The Queen of Spades
Tower Scene Aria from Pelleas et Melisande
Tu sei il cor
Vision fugitive
Voici des roses
Votre toast (Toreador)
Woman, I’ll not have your suspicion
Wouldn’t you like to be on Broadway
BASS & BASS-BARITONE
5-7 X
Aprite un po’
Madamina (Catalogue aria)
Vi ravviso
Vous qui faites l’endormie
2-4 X
Arise ye subterranean winds
Come dal ciel
Come Master!
Hear me O Lord
Il lacerato spirito
I’m a lonely man Susannah
In diesen heil’gen Hallen
La calunnia
Non più andrai
O Isis und Osiris
Quand la flamme
Se vuol ballare
Sorge infausta
Vecchia zimarra
Votre Toast
Once
A un dottor della mia sorte
Abendlich strahlt
Boris’ Monologue
Dalle stanze ove Lucia
Deh ti ferma
Épouse quelque brave fille
Ha! welch’ ein Augenblick!
I miei rampolli femminini
King René’s aria (Gospod’ moy)
La vendetta
Le Tambour-Major
Leave me loathsome light
Let things be like they always was
Mein Herr und Gott
O du mein holder Abendstern
O ruddier than the cherry
O tu Palermo
O! du mein holder Abendstern
Pyramus’ monologue
Scintille diamant
Seigneur, rempart et seul soutien
Si la rigeur
Sibilar
Tu Sei il Cor
Udite o rustici
When my cue comes call me
Wie schoen ist doch die Musik
Thanks for posting lists like these. I auditioned for the studio artists this year and it’s always interesting to see what the ‘big kids’ are singing.
What’s the time frame for when we should be hearing results from the auditions? I remember last year they sent out an e-mail letting us know if we were still in the running before you made the final cut, will anything like that be happening this year?
Hi Kim…. Is this list for the Filene Young Artists auditions only or does this include the Studio auditions as well?
Answers:
The list above is for FYA’s only. The Studio list may be found here: http://wolftrapopera.blogspot.com/2008/11/studio-auditions-aria-list.html
If you auditioned for the Studio, you should hear from us by the end of next week (~December 12). The notification will tell you whether you remain on the top of our list for 2009 or you are released from consideration for 2009. (NOTE: The numbers of finalists represents about twice as many people as we can actually hire; so even if you receive a positive notification at this point, we still may end up releasing by January 15.) Hope this helps.
Under baritone arias the aria “Era eguale la voce” is listed as La Boheme.
I can’t think of what that might be, but as I recall it is Schicchi’s line before he sings “Vittoria Vittoria!…Si corre dal notaio”.
Yes, the baritone “era uguale la voce” is indeed Schicchi. When I make these lists, I export them from the data the singers submit on the application form. And, for some reason, Boheme was referenced instead of Schicchi. Thanks for the catch!
Thank you for all your blog postings. I have a question regarding FYA- if you were a finalist, but have not received any further info, does that mean you are still being considered?
We’ve begun contacting finalists one by one as repertoire and casting begin to come into focus. If you haven’t heard from us, that doesn’t mean that you’re out of contention. If you’re struggling with another offer deadline, just let us know. We expect to have closed the loop with all finalists within 10 days at most.
I was referring someone to this post, and realized that the word you were looking for is “frazzlosity.”
I love this. I'm thinking maybe I should work up some slightly more obscure arias now. :)
Hi Kim, on your tenor list, you have a question mark next to one of the arias. It's 'Ciel e terra armi di sdegno' from Tamerlano. It's a good audition aria for a more robust sort of tenor. I do it sometimes. Thanks for the list. It's great to see.