Mascarade Opera (2025-2027) - Singers and Répétiteurs

This application closed on Sunday December 1, 2024.

By applying, all applicants agree not to make any claim whatsover against the Mascarade Opera Foundation or any of its affiliates regarding auditions and all aspects of the audition process. Decisions made by the Mascarade Opera audition panel are final.

Personal Information

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N.B. There is an upper limit (as of the closing date of applications on 17 November 2024) of 30 years of age for both singers and répétiteurs; anyone born on or before 17 November 1993 is not eligible.

Please select your voice type or select Répétiteur from one of the following options.*

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Additional Information

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Video Recordings

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Each applicant must provide a link to 1 short video-recorded personal statement explaining why they wish to apply to Mascarade Opera, spoken in either English or Italian. In addition, singers must provide links to 2 recent video recordings (recorded within the last three months): two contrasting arias in different languages, one of which must be in Italian, and one which must include some recitative style delivery. Répétiteurs, meanwhile, must provide links to 2 recent video recordings of accompanying singers or a singer (recorded within the last year): one song and one operatic aria. Number of selections required: 3.

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Live Audition Dates

In December 2024, selected applicants will be invited to the live auditions at the Mascarade Opera Foundation in Florence, Italy on Friday 7 February and Saturday 8 February 2025. Over these two days, the selected singers will participate in workshops, coachings and study sessions; the selected répétiteurs, meanwhile, will be given an audition time on one of these two days. In the evening on Saturday 8 February 2025, a number of the singers will be confirmed as the finalists and will be invited to perform in a public aria concert on Sunday 9 February 2025 in front of a panel of our partner opera houses and agency partners. Directly after that concert, the singers who are to be offered places on the programme will be announced. All other candidates, both the final round répétiteurs and the singers who are not selected to perform in the concert, are welcome to stay in Florence for this concert on Sunday 9 February 2025 but are not obliged to do so. Financial support is available up to a capped sum per artist to cover the cost of travel for the live auditions depending how far an artist needs to travel and how many nights they need to stay in Florence.

Please confirm where you would be travelling from for the live auditions in Florence in February 2025.*

From within Italy.

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From outside the European Union / United Kingdom.

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Auditionees will be asked to prepare the following: Singers must offer three arias in different languages, one of which must be in Italian, and one which must include some recitative style delivery, as well as two songs. Répétiteurs will need to prepare a solo piano piece or movement of approximately 5 minutes in duration and the following two opera scenes: G. Puccini - La bohème, Act I Opening to entrance of Benoit and W. A. Mozart - Così fan tutte, Act I Scene 1. You will be asked to play while singing in the vocal lines. You will also be given some sight reading.

References

Two referees are required. Referees can be music industry professionals with whom you have worked, including conductors and stage directors; references from a current or a recent singing teacher will not be accepted. It is your responsibility to contact your referees in plenty of time to ensure that they agree to be named as your referee. Your current or a recent singing teacher, any agent and/or family relative may NOT act as a referee.

Referee 1*

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Referee 2*

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Payment Details

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Either card payments or payments via PayPal to the Mascarade Opera Foundation (https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=7YKF28JW6MVXE) are accepted. 100% of your fee is used to cover the cost of this application and audition process.

Amount: 30.00 (EUR)

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