Opera

Applications are now open for the 2023-2024 Vocal Arts Academy presented by I Cantori Di Carmel. Academy members receive training and mentorship through a 4-day intensive on 19th Century German Repertoire at Hidden Valley Music Seminars in Carmel Valley before becoming featured soloists in our upcoming concert season. This is perfect for you if you are passionate about choral music, vocal performance, and are ready for mentorship and performance opportunities. For this fall's VAA, we are looking for sopranos, mezzo-sopranos and baritones.

Pocket Opera will hold its auditions for its 2020 season on September 20 (7-10pm) and September 21 (1-4pm).

Please prepare 2-3 arias, and at least one MUST be in English, as Pocket Opera performs all its productions in English.

Season:
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Cavalleria Rusticana/The Cat Became a Woman (Mascagni/Offenbach)
No Love Allowed (Wagner)
Carmen (Bizet)
La Cenerentola (Rossini)

Nearly all roles are available, as well as a chamber sized chorus.

Pocket Opera announces auditions for its 2019 season. Operas this season include: Elixir of Love (Donizetti), Two Widows (Smetana), La Rondine (Puccini), The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach), Barber of Seville (Rossini). Auditions will be held September 14 and 15 (7-10pm). Prepare 2-3 arias--at least one aria MUST be in English. Pocket Opera performs its own English translations, and arias will be made available in our translation if you wish to present them.

AUDITIONS June 30th 2019 afternoon, specific times TBD.

Concert premiere of Kirke Mechem's new opera, PRIDE & PREJUDICE with Redwood Symphony.
Performances and live recording: April 6, 2019 at 8 pm, April 7, 2019 at 2 pm at Cañada College.
Rehearsals w/orchestra begin February 20, 2019.

Character descriptions in the words of Jane Austen.

MR. COLLINS, BASS-BARITONE
"A clergyman. His air was grave and stately, and his manners very formal. A mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and servility."

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA CHORUS AUDITIONS
FOR THE 2018 SEASON
OPENINGS IN ALL VOICE CATEGORIES
San Francisco Opera will hold auditions in October & November for experienced, classically trained singers who are seeking a professional contract in the San Francisco Opera Chorus for the 2018 season. Positions for all voice parts may be available in the full-time Regular Chorus, and all voice parts in the part-time Extra Chorus will be available with a special need for male voices for the 2018 spring production of Götterdämmerung.

Chorus auditions for Bizet's Carmen
June 29 & July 3 in San Francisco

For more information or to schedule an audition, see our audition notice:
http://mailchi.mp/ac4aab38f154/opera-chorus-auditions-carmen-1338373

Rehearsal and performance schedule: www.lacunaarts.org/rehearsal-schedule

Audition will be held Oct 1 and 7, 2016 at the Lamplighters rehearsal space, 469 Bryant, San Francisco, an accompanist will be provided.

The 2017 40th Anniversary Season runs Feb thru July and will include:

San Francisco Opera Guild, a non-profit organization that has provided arts education programs to Northern California communities for over 75 years, seeks an experienced Teaching Artist for its Sing A Story program. Sing a Story takes place in classrooms at schools across the Bay Area.

Dear Music Friends

Pocket Opera 2016 Season Auditions

Audition will be held Oct 3 and 9, 2015 at the Lamplighters rehearsal space, 469 Bryant, San Francisco.

The 2016 Season runs Feb thru July and will include: