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40: 2023 Summer Rep Series - Obscure Operas

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The standard opera rep is no longer all that companies are looking to see in your audition package. They want to see your creativity in your music selections! This week, Alyssa and Ellen dove deep into their music history knowledge and beyond to bring you options from some operas that are still done, but not as often. Be sure to check out the summer rep series playlist to listen and follow along!


Resources:

Summer Rep Series Spotify playlist 

Learn Your Music The Right Way Workbook 

Summer Reset Bundle 


MUSIC RESOURCES:

JSTOR Musical Scores

IMSLP 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amahl_and_the_Night_Visitors#cite_note-5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Huguenots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_de_Buenos_Aires

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mefistofele

https://medicine-opera.com/2014/07/ecco-il-mondo/


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THIS WEEK'S REP LIST

SOPRANO

  1. Wohl denn, Gefaßt ist der Entschlüss (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor - Nicolai)

  2. Air: "Parmi les pleurs mon rêve se ranime" (Les Huguenots - Meyerbeer)

  3. En proie à la tristesse (Le comte Ory - Rossini)

    4. MEZZO

    1. All that gold (Amahl and the Night Visitors - Menotti)

    2. Milonga de la Anunciación (María de Buenos Aires - Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla)

    3. De grâce, encore un mot (Le comte Ory - Rossini)

      4. CONTRALTO

      1. Marta (Marthe) - (Mefistofele - Boito)

      2. L’ultima del gioir (recit) Lusinghiera mia speranza (aria) (Agrippina - Handel)

      3. Coronato il crin d'alloro (Agrippina - Handel)

        4. COUNTER TENOR

        1. Chiamo il mio ben (Orfeo ed Euridice - Gluck)

        2. Come nube che fugge dal vento (Agrippina - Handel)

          3. TENOR

          1. Horsch, die Lerche! (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor - Otto Nicolai)

          2. This is my box (Amahl and the Night Visitors - Menotti)

          3. Romance: "Plus blanche que la blanche hermine" (Les Huguenots - Meyerbeer)

            4. BARITONE

            1. Conjuration:"Des troubles renaissants" (Les Huguenots - Meyerbeer)

            2. Miserere Canyengue de los Ladrones Antiguos en las Alcantarillas (María de Buenos Aires - Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla)

            3. Al soave raggiar di primavera (Mefistofele - Boito)

            4. Onegin’s Aria (Kogda bi zhizn domashnim krugom) (Eugene Onegin - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

              5. BASS-BARITONE

              1. Oh, Woman, You Can Keep That Gold (Amahl and the Night Visitors - Menotti)

                2. BASS 

                1. Als Büblein Klein (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor - Otto Nicolai)

                2. Ecco il mondo (Mefistofele - Boito)

                3. Veiller sans cesse (Le comte Ory - Rossini)

                4. Prince Gremin’s Aria (Eugene Onegin - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

                  5. ...more
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