The Santa Fe Opera cello audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal cello
Application deadline
July 5, 2019
Audition date
August 21, 2019
Payment
$1,662.40 per week
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(Posted on June 16, 2019; last updated almost 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
A prelude from a Bach solo cello suite
One of the following solos
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Schumann—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Solo excerpts
Bizet—Carmen
  • Act III, No. 24: 11 before 46 to 46
Handel—Alcina
  • Act III, No. 32: 1–31
Mozart—Don Giovanni
  • Act I: Finale solo “Batti, batti”
Puccini—Tosca
  • Act III: 5 after 9 to 11
Rossini—L’italiana in Algeri
  • No. 11a: 3–25
Strauss—Ariadne auf Naxos
  • 4 after 123 to 2 after 124
Strauss—Capriccio
  • Act II, Trio: 128–130
Verdi—Rigoletto
  • Act II, No. 9: 27–end
Wagner—Die Walküre
  • Act I: 12 after 8 to 16 before 9
Tutti excerpts
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: C–D
  • Scherzo: N–O
Mozart—The Magic Flute
  • Overture: 27–53
Strauss—Salome
  • 6 before 141 to 144
  • 314–315
  • 316 to 3 after 318
Verdi—Aida
  • Act III, No. 6: 6 before X to 1 before X
Possible sight-reading
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