First Violin, Chairs 7 & 8 Auditions

Arizona Opera Orchestra (performing in Phoenix and Tucson, AZ) announces auditions for the following:

First Violin, chairs 7 & 8 (26 svcs*)

Audition date: Sunday, September 20, 2026
Resumes due Thursday, September 13, 2026

*Projected number of services for 2026/27 Season

2026/27 Season per service rate*:
Section Violin: $152.62 
Plus per diem, travel and hotel stipend per CBA. Contact Orchestra Manager for details.

First Violin, Chairs 7 & 8 auditions will take place on Sunday, September 20, 2026 at the Arizona Opera Center. Times will be announced prior.

Applications are due Thursday, September 13, 2026. To apply, please email your resume to orchmanager@azopera.org.

Audition Materials List:

Click here to download audition excerpts

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

Solo

• The 1st movement, exposition only, from either Mozart’s Concerto No.4 in D major

         - OR -

• Mozart’s Concerto No. 5 in A major
• The 1st movement, exposition only, from one of the following Concerti: Beethoven, Brahms, Glazanov, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, OR Tchaikovsky 

Orchestra Excerpts (when divisi, play the top line)

• Leoncavallo – Pagliacci, Act II Scene 2: [122] to 1 bar before [124] 
• Mozart – The Marriage of Figaro, Overture: bars 108-171 
• Puccini – Tosca, Act III Scene 1: 2 bars after [7] to 7 bars after [8] 
• Rossini – La Cenerentola, Act I No.1 Introduzione: bars 9-31, top line 
• Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier, Act I: Beginning to [5] 
• Verdi – La Traviata, Act I Prelude: Beginning to End of Prelude 
• Verdi – Falstaff, Act I Part 1: 8 bars after [13] to [14] 
• Wagner – Siegfried, Act III Scene 3: 4 bars before [58] to 5 bars before [59]