Concertmaster Auditions

Arizona Opera announces auditions for the following:
 

Concertmaster (21 svcs*)

*projected minimum services for 2025/26 Season

2023/24 Season per service rate*:

Concertmaster: $223.83*
Plus per diem, travel and hotel stipend per CBA

*The collective bargaining agreement of the Arizona Opera Orchestra expired on June 30, 2024 and is currently in the process of renegotiation.

Concertmaster auditions will take place on Tuesday, May 6, 2025 in The Roma and Raymond Wittcoff Black Box Theater at the Arizona Opera Center. Times will be announced prior.

A trial production may be offered during the 2025/26 Season.

Applications are due Tuesday, April 29, 2025. To apply, please email your resume to orchmanager@azopera.org.

- Click here to download audition sheet music. -

Audition Materials List:

Solo Repertoire

• Exposition of a major romantic or standard concerto for violin with cadenza.
• Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 3, 4 or 5. First movement with cadenza.

Excerpts

• Gounod - Faust: Act 3, No. 12 Cavatine – solo line only
• Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro: Overture, m. 108-171
• Puccini - Madama Butterfly: Beginning through 5 after Reh 3
• Puccini - Madama Butterfly:  Act 1 Reh 129- 2 after Reh 132
• Puccini - Madama Butterfly: Act 3, Reh 10 - Reh 13
• J. Strauss II - Die Fledermaus: Overture, as bracketed in provided excerpts
• Strauss - Salome: Tanz, Reh F to 3rd of Reh H, and 9 before Reh Q to Reh V
• Verdi - La traviata: Top of Prelude to end of Prelude