Bass Trombone Auditions

Arizona Opera announces auditions for the following:
 

Bass Trombone (14 svcs*)

*projected services for 2024/25 Season

2023/24 Season per service rate*:

Bass Trombone: $131.84*
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.

Bass Trombone auditions will take place on Monday, April 7, 2025 in The Roma and Raymond Wittcoff Black Box Theater at the Arizona Opera Center. Times will be announced prior.

Applications are due Thursday, April 3, 2025. To apply, please email your resume to orchmanager@azopera.org.

- Click here to download audition sheet music. -

Audition Materials List:

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

• Bach - Cello Suite No. 5, Sarabande: entire piece, no repeats
• Leoncavallo - Pagliacci, Act 1, bracketed excerpts
• Leoncavallo - Pagliacci, Act 2 Finale, bracketed excerpt
• Mozart - The Magic Flute, Aria #10, “O Isis und Osiris”
• Rossini - Overture La Gazza Ladra, bracketed excerpts
• Strauss - Salome, bracketed measures
• Verdi - Otello: Finale Act II, bracketed excerpts
• Wagner - Das Rheingold, Scene II, bracketed measures
• Wagner - Das Rheingold, Scene IV, Finale, bracketed measures
• Wagner - The Ride of the Valkyrie Act III, Scene 1, bracketed measures