Bassoon 2 Auditions

Arizona Opera announces auditions for the following:

Bassoon 2

27 projected services for 2023/24 Season

2023/24 Season per service rate:

Section Musician: $131.84
Plus per diem, travel and hotel stipend per CBA

Applications are due on Tuesday, January 23, 2024. Bassoon 2 auditions will take place on Saturday, January 27, 2024 at the Arizona Opera Center. Times will be announced prior.

To apply, please email your resume to orchmanager@azopera.org.

- Click here to download Bassoon 2 audition sheet music. -

bassoon 2 Audition Repertoire List

Solo repertoire:

• Mozart Concerto for Bassoon in B♭, KV 191, 1st and 2nd mvts

Orchestra Excerpts: to be selected from the following, parts as marked

• Bizet, Carmen – Act II entr’acte “Les dragons d’Alcala”
• Brahms, Violin Concerto – Mvt. II
• Donizetti, L’Elisier d’Amore – No. 11 “Una furtive Lagrima”
• Leoncavallo, I Pagliacci – Act II #135
• Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro Overture – 1st & 2nd bassoon parts
  • Act I, No. 1 Duetto
  • Act I, Finale
• Mozart, Così fan tutte – Act I Finale
• Smetana, The Bartered Bride Overture
• Strauss, Salome – “Dance of the Seven Veils”
• Verdi, I Vespri Siciliani Overture – 1st & 2nd bassoon parts
• Verdi, Falstaff - Act II, Part I, reh #49
• Verdi, Otello – Act 1 (2 pages)
• Wagner, Tannhäuser Overture •    Wagner, Die Walkure – Act 1 Vorspiel, Scene 1
• Wagner, Siegfried – Act II Vorspiel, Scene 1

Possible Sight Reading