Posts Categorized: Auditions

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!

Last month, the Harvard Gazette took a look at the role of visual information in assessing performance. In “The Look of Music,” the a study by Chia-Jung Tsay indicated that “nearly all participants—including highly trained musicians—were better able to identify the winners of competitions by watching silent video clips than by listening to audio recordings.”

One more reminder (because we hate the sad and frustrating discussions that ensue when folks miss the deadline…) Applications for early/mid October audition dates in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago are due on Monday (September 2.) Start here.

If you’re interested in singing for us this fall in NY, Philly or Chicago, you’ve got a week to apply. The deadline is Monday, September 2. LOCATIONS & DATES National Opera Center in NYC on October 5, 6, 7, 8 & 10 Curtis Institute in Philadelphia on October 13 Classical Symphony Hall in Chicago on

OK, I admit it. I’ve been cheating on you with some newer, sexier blogs. (Well actually, one blog and one podcast.) But truth is, I miss you. Even though it’s been fun pretending to be a fancy Huffington Post blogger and a smooth-talking iTunes podcaster, it’s also been pretty exhausting. Those Huffington Post people expect

I owe the singers out there some final aria lists from the audition tour, but I need a few hours to crunch the data, and I can’t get to it for another few days. (Currently preoccupied with data of another sort, the budgetary kind…) What I do seem to have time for, though, is this

The blog comes to you today courtesy of my colleague and audition tour partner in crime Lee Anne Myslewski. OK. For all of you who sing, or tune into the blog and say “I think that the tour sounds like so much fun!” I will agree with you – it is fun – but here’s