The Santa Fe Opera oboe audition

Audition information
Position
Second oboe
Application deadline
July 7, 2017
Audition date
August 19, 2017
Payment
$1,480 per week
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(Posted on June 8, 2017; last updated almost 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Oboe solo
Mozart—Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. II
Oboe excerpts
Beethoven—Fidelio
  • Act II, No. 11: 81–131
Britten—Peter Grimes
  • Sea Interlude II: 52–54
  • Sea Interlude II: 58–59
Handel—Rinaldo
  • Overture (1731 version): 58–82
Mozart—The Abduction from the Seraglio
  • Act III, No. 21: 34–52
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Act IV, No. 28, “Deh vieni, non tardar”
Rossini—L’italiana in Algeri
  • Overture
Strauss—Der Rosenkavalier
  • 35–38
Verdi—Aida
  • Act III: “Andante mosso” at C to 17 after D
Verdi—Otello
  • Act I: 5 after X to 1 after Y
Wagner—Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
  • Overture, second oboe: 2 before G to H
Wagner—Parsifal
  • Act III: 2 after 256 to 1 after 257
English horn solo
Wagner—Tristan and Isolde
  • Act III: on-stage solo at beginning
English horn excerpts
Berg—Wozzeck
  • Act II: 4 before 290 to 3 after 290
Berlioz—The Damnation of Faust
  • Scene XV
Bizet—Carmen
  • Act II
Rossini—William Tell Overture
Verdi—Un Ballo in Maschera
  • Act II: 10–11
  • Act II: 12–end
Verdi—Otello
  • Act IV: 1–B
Verdi—Rigoletto
  • Act II, No. 9
Possible sight-reading
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