Minnesota Opera oboe audition

Audition information
Position
Second oboe
Application deadline
November 10, 2013
Audition date
December 3, 2013
Payment
$175 per service
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(Posted on October 29, 2013; last updated over 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Oboe excerpts
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • 1–29 (through first ending)
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. II: 25 for 5 measures, play first and second oboe parts
Rossini—La Gazza Ladra
  • Overture: 369–431
Rossini—La Scala di Seta
  • Overture: 1–20
  • Overture: 38–54
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake
  • Act II, No. 10: 1–19
English horn excerpts
Berlioz—Roman Carnival Overture
  • Beginning to 3 after 1
Debussy—Three Nocturnes
  • No. II, “Fêtes”: 3–8
  • No. II, “Fêtes”: 11–13
  • No. III, “Sirènes”: 6–8
Ravel—Rapsodie Espagnole
  • Mvt. IV, “Feria”: 5 to 2 after 11
Rossini—William Tell Overture
  • 176–226
The first movement exposition of the candidate’s choice from the standard solo repertory
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