Los Angeles Opera

DOMINGO-COLBURN-STEIN Young Artist Program: PIANISTS (2025-26)

This application closed on Thursday October 31, 2024.

Inaugurated during the 2006/07 season, the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program is designed to support the future of opera by discovering and developing the talents of exceptionally gifted young artists to become artists of potentially international stature. LA Opera uses its resources to provide extensive training for the young artists and also gives them the opportunity to further develop their skills by serving on music staff for mainstage productions, and performing in young artist concerts and productions.

The Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program's training component includes individualized courses for each artist in the areas of musical coaching and language studies. Artists with experience or an interest in conducting are also encouraged to apply. The artists work with LA Opera Music Director James Conlon, members of the LA Opera music staff, and with guest coaches.

In addition to joining the music staff of LA Opera, alumni of the program have worked at prominent houses such as the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, New York City Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, English National Opera and the Australian Opera.

Please note: this application is for pianists only.

Please contact at auditions@laopera.org with any questions regarding this application. For technical help, please contact help@yaptracker.com.

Personal Information

Legal First Name*

Legal Last Name*

Professional Name (if different)

Birth Date*

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Do you have authorization to work in the United States?*

If the answer is no, this will not preclude you from auditioning or being accepted.

Yes

Contact Information

Current Address*

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E-mail address*

Program Dates and Availability*

Please list any conflicts you may have during the program dates of August 18, 2025 - June 20, 2026. Any listed conflicts will not prohibit you from being considered for the DCS-YAP at LA Opera. If you do not have any conflicts please write "N/A." Thank you!

Education Background*Please list below. A maximum of three (3) entries are permitted.

Education 1

Education 2

Education 3

Professional References*

Please list the names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of three industry professionals with whom you have worked extensively and who know you well. One reference should be your current teacher or coach. Number of selections required: 3.

Selection 1

Selection 2

Selection 3

Video Recordings

Video Selections*

Candidates should upload three (3) videos that satisfy the following requirements:

1) An aria in collaboration with a singer from the standard operatic canon.

2) To be sung and played by the applicant: A recitative and aria in Italian by Mozart.

3) To be sung and played by the applicant: an aria in French by Gounod or Bizet OR an aria in German by Wagner or Strauss.

Number of video and/or audio (combined total) required: 3.

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Live Audition Repertoire

*Please note: Live auditions will take place in Los Angeles in February 2025*

Applicants invited for a live audition are asked to prepare the following repertoire:

A short solo piano piece of your choice no more than 5 minutes in length

**ALL EXCERPTS ARE TO BE SUNG AND PLAYED**

Excerpt 1 – MOZART: A recitative in Italian with at least two characters and at least two pages in length

Excerpt 2 – MOZART, please select 1, to be sung in Italian:

Le nozze di Figaro: Act II Finale from the entrance of Antonio (Scene X, Allegro molto) until the end of the Act

Cosi fan tutte: Act I Finale from the entrance of Despina/Don Alfonso (Scene XVI, Allegro) until the end of the Act

Excerpt 3 – PUCCINI, please select 1, to be sung in Italian:

La bohème: Act I until the entrance of Benoit

Tosca: Act I until rehearsal 40

Excerpt 4 – BIZET: Carmen: Quintet, “Nous avons en tête une affaire”

Excerpt 5 – STRAUSS, please select 1, to be sung in German:

Der Rosenkavalier: “Wie du warst,” Rehearsal 12 to 4 measures after Rehearsal 25

Ariadne auf Naxos: “Sein wir wieder gut,” Rehearsal 108 until the end of the Prologue

Excerpt 6 – CONTEMPORARY: An operatic excerpt in English, no longer than 5 minutes in length, taken from a work written in or after 1970

Live Audition Availability:*

Please list any conflicts you may have if invited to audition in Los Angeles in February 2025

Briefly describe (in 150 words or less) what interests you about the DCS-YAP at LA Opera?*

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Resume

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