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Auditions in LA got us off to a marvelous start for our west coast leg. (My own Pacific sojourn had already started with a brief personal trip to Seattle, where sadly, the lack of a Young Artist Program at Seattle Opera now means that it is no longer a must-hear stop on our audition travels.)

We’re at the halfway point of the audition tour (10 days down, 10 to go), and certain operas in the future repertoire database are beginning to edge out others. Of course, anything can change (and does…) right up until the last day of the auditions. (Last year’s casts for our Verdi operas came together on

Three days on Wabash, in a dry orchestra rehearsal space with no coffee. Purgatory for opera administrators? Nah. Some truly lovely singing, a few nice surprises, and a couple hundred arias closer to figuring out summer 2014. Singing in the Inside of a Sock The dry acoustic we dealt with this week is worth a

A guest post from Lee Anne Myslewski, the Director of the Wolf Trap Opera Studio The Wolf Trap Opera Studio is a program for students who are exceptionally talented but who are still trying to gather the skills and experiences that will support an operatic career.  Studio Artists are typically undergraduate seniors or first-year grad

We’re already 252 arias into our audition tour, and I’m finally checking in with the blogosphere. I still love you, honest I do… The New York week was jam-packed, as it so often is. We sat down for 5 days at the National Opera Center, in a place that makes performers and auditors alike feel

If you’d like to apply for an audition at our Los Angeles (10/25), San Francisco (10/28) or Houston (10/30-31, 11/1) locations, the deadline is Monday. As always, start here. Need any help getting your head in the audition game? Try this. Enjoy the weekend!