Assistant Principal Bass Auditions

Arizona Opera announces auditions for the following:
 

Assistant Principal Bass (24 svcs*)

*projected services for 2025/26 Season

2025/26 Season per service rate*:

Assistant Principal Bass: $152.61*
Plus per diem, travel and hotel stipend per CBA

Assistant Principal Bass auditions will take place on Monday, January 26, 2026 in The Roma and Raymond Wittcoff Black Box Theater at the Arizona Opera Center. Times will be announced prior.

Applications are due Monday, January 19, 2026. To apply, please email your resume to orchmanager@azopera.org.

Audition Materials List:

Click here to download audition repertoire list

Click here to download audition excerpts

Required excerpts are marked with brackets on azopera.org and at the audition.

Solo

• A dance movement from any cello suite by J.S. Bach (No preludes, no repeats)
• Exposition of the first movement from any of the following concerti:
  
  1. Bottesini Concerto No. 2
  2. Vanhal (C major OR D major)
  3. Koussevitzky
  4. Dittersdorf

Orchestra Excerpts (Bowings are suggested NOT required):

• Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro, Overture: Measures 1 - 58
• Rossini - The Barber of Seville, Overture
  
  1. Measures 64 - 80
  2. Measures 123 - 150
  3. Measures 238 - 264
• Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier, Act 2: Rehearsal #154 - 4 measures after Rehearsal #156
• Strauss - Salome: Rehearsal #140 - Rehearsal #142
• Verdi - Falstaff, Act 3, Parte 1, Beginning: 8 measures before Rehearsal #1 - Rehearsal #3
• Verdi - Othello, Act 4: Soli with mute
• Verdi - Rigoletto
  
  1. Act 1: Vivace
  2. Act 2: Solo
• Wagner - Die Walküre, Act 2, Vorspiel: Rehearsal #3
• Wagner, Die Meistersinger, Act 1, Scene 3