San Francisco Opera oboe audition

Audition information
Position
Second oboe
Application deadline
April 13, 2019
Audition date
June 17–20, 2019
Weeks in season
24
Payment
$95,976 per year
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(Posted on March 25, 2019; last updated about 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solos
Mozart—Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. II
Schumann—3 Romances, Op. 94
  • No. 1
First oboe excerpts
Berlioz—Benvenuto Cellini
  • Overture: 90–130
  • Overture: 228–248
Rossini—La Scala di Seta
  • Overture: 16 before 1 to 3
Strauss—Die Fledermaus
  • Overture: 210–226
Verdi—Rigoletto
  • Act I, No. 4
  • Act II, No. 10
Second oboe excerpts
Berlioz—The Damnation of Faust
  • Minuet of the Will-o’-the-Wisps
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • 1–29 with repeats
Britten—Peter Grimes
  • Sea Interlude II: 58–59
Dvořák—Symphony No. 7
  • 1 to 7 before C
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. II: 1 before E to 3 before G
  • Mvt. II: 3 after H to 2 after J
  • Mvt. IV: 5 after B to 5 after F
Verdi—Rigoletto
  • Scene 5: 18–37
Verdi—La Traviata
  • Act III, No. 11: 12 to 3 after 15
Wagner—Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
  • Overture
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