Here’s the list of starter arias offered this fall by singers auditioning for the Studio Artist program. (Younger demographic than the Filene Young Artists; average profile is college senior or first-year grad student.)
SOPRANO
4X
Du gai soleil
3X
Durch Zärtlichkeit
Padre, germani
Sul fil
TWICE
Come scoglio
Kommt ein schlanker Bursch gegangen
Quando m’en vo
Quel guardo
ONCE
Adele’s Audition Aria
All that Gold
Bel raggio
Chacun le sait
Depuis le jour
Dich theure Halle
Douce enfant
Emily’s Aria from Our Town
I Go To Him
I Have Dreamt
Je dis
Je veux vivre
Marietta
Non mi dir
O luce
O quante volte
Olympia’s Aria
Pamina’s Aria
Piangerò
Quickly, Quickly
(Rachmaninoff song)
Saper vorreste
Se pieta
Somehow I Never Could Believe
(Strauss song)
The Trees on the Mountain
Tu che di gel
Una voce
Willow
MEZZO
4X
Que fais-tu
TWICE
Smanie implacabili
Va
ONCE
Addio sospiri
Air des champetres
All’afflitto
I do not judge you
Iris Hence Away
Must the Winter Come So Soon
My Man’s Gone Now
Non so piu
O ma lyre
Parto
Things Change, Jo
Una donna
Una voce
What a Movie
What a Wonderful Party
TENOR
TWICE
Ecco ridente
Il mio tesoro
ONCE
Ah mes amis
Albert the Good
Amor ti vieta
Che gelida manina
Ciel e terra
Dies Bildnis
Flower Song
Fuor del mar
Here I Stand
I’ll Sail Upon the Dog Star
Lonely House
Prologue from Turn of the Screw
Quanto e bella
Questa o quella
Una furtiva lagrima
Vainement
Zarzuela aria from Amor vida
BARITONE
TWICE
Papageno’s Suicide Scene
ONCE EACH
Ah per sempre
Avant de quitter
Count’s Aria
Die Ihr schwebet
Donne mie
Ho capito
Honor and Arms
Largo
Lieben, Hassen
Mab
Medaglie incomparabili
Pierrot
Questo amor
Sibillar
Silvio
Simple Song
Warm as the autumn light
When the air sings of summer
BASS & BASS-BARITONE
TWICE
Il lacerato spirito
ONCE
O Grim-look’d Night
Una voce mal colpito
Madamina
That’s it! If you spot errors, comment below and I’ll fix.
Based on the studio soprano list (and Come Scoglio aside), you hear a lot more lyric coloraturas in that demographic than anything else! Very interesting food for thought.