And finally….the low-voiced men! Baritone Aria Frequency Bass Baritone Aria Frequency List Bass Aria Frequency List Our baritones had a tie for most popular aria; we heard both Hai gia vinta la causa and Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen nine times and we heard them both five times in the first round. Bass-baritones added one more
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It’s Tenor Time!
We return to the Aria Frequency Data with the Tenor Aria Frequency List. As is our usual expectation, Tamino came in first place with tenors this year. We heard Dies Bildnis 11 times total, but only once in round one. We asked for it five times in both round two and in the callbacks. Continuing
Read MoreAria Frequency List: Mezzos and Countertenors
It’s the Mezzos and Countertenors Aria Count! These women and men made some very interesting choices this year. One might expect to hear Carmen or Cherubino a lot from mezzos, but we heard our Spanish Siren’s Habanera once in round one and once in round two and the Card Aria once in round two. Cherubino
Read MoreThe Return of the Aria Frequency List: Sopranos
Wolf Trap Opera hit the audition trail in fall of 2021, and as a result we’ve parsed through the data and arias that we heard in the audition room. As you might guess, there were some new surprises, and some upsets! We’ll roll out the results in score order over the next two weeks.
Read MoreAria Frequency Lists Are Up!
Data nerds, rejoice, the aria lists from this fall’s audition tour are now available on our Audition Resources page. And, as a special bonus this year, the spreadsheet with tabs for all voice types is available as a Google Sheet for download, sorting, and churning here. A little under-the-hood info for those of you who follow and
Read More2019 Audition Tour Musings
We’re almost done… One more day of auditions at our home base in Vienna, and then it’s off to the drawing board (well, literally, a big ol’ white board) to choose some repertoire and select singers! On today’s blog menu are some fragments of would-be posts… things that I wanted to share along the way
Read MoreKeeping Up With the Audition Tour
If you follow us on Facebook (and btw, if you don’t, you should!:)), you might have seen the clips below. I’m sharing them here for those of you who eschew social media, or those whose feed algorithm hasn’t faithfully served them up! Chicago, New York, and Virginia await.
Read MoreUntranslatable Words: Audition Tour Edition
During her pre-audition visit to LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Lee Anne picked up a box of Untranslatable Words (20 cards of Perfect Words from Other Languages). We’ve decided to feature one of them on each day of this 2019 Season Audition Tour. Check back here or on the WTO Facebook page for updates! WALDEINSAMKEIT [GERMAN]
Read MoreList of Starter Arias
Hi, singer friends. As y’all are preparing your aria packages for this audition season, I thought you might want to see these lists of first arias from last year’s audition tour. Unlike the master Aria Frequency Lists (which represent the full complement of 4 arias that singers put on their applications), these starter aria lists represent the
Read MoreNumbers
Today, a few interpretations of audition tour statistics. Numbers can tell stories. Important stories. But a single set of statistics can sometimes tell stories that seem at odds with one another. First, the raw numbers: Audition Tour 2019 1,134 applications – a 300% increase from just a couple of decades ago. 444 auditions scheduled 3% expected to
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