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NORTH CAROLINA OPERA AUDITIONS

The North Carolina Opera announces house auditions in Carswell Recital Hall at Meredith College. If you wish to be considered for an audition, please submit a current biography and one page resume in MS Word or PDF format to auditions@ncopera.org . Please DO NOT submit audio or video files with audition request.

Audition dates and times:

Sunday, May 9, 7 – 10 pm

Monday, May 10, 7:30 – 10pm

Wednesday, May 12, 6:30 – 10pm

•Please indicate if you wish to be considered for a certain day/time.

•There is a $10 audition fee for all artists and a pianist will be provided, although you may choose to bring your own.

•Please do NOT submit the audition fee with your request, the fee will be collected at the audition (please bring cash).

•Artists should be prepared with four to six operatic selections demonstrating a variety of styles and languages.

•Artists wishing to be considered for the Britten MUST offer an aria in English, preferably from the 20^th or 21^st century.

•N.B. Auditions for the NCO chorus will be held separately, details will be announced at a later date.

The following roles are open for the 2010-2011 season, and qualified artists from the Triangle and southeast region will be given primary consideration:

PUCCINI: Tosca

Available roles:

Spoletta

Sciarrone

Shepherd Boy (soprano, mezzo-soprano, or youth soprano)

Jailer

BRITTEN: Turn of the Screw

Available roles:

Governess

Peter Quint

Miss Jessel

Mrs. Grose

Flora

Miles

Prologue (tenor)

DONIZETTI: Don Pasquale

Available roles:

Notary

GOUNOD: Faust

Available roles:

Wagner

Martha

These auditions will also serve as an open call for artists wishing to be considered for education/outreach opportunities with North Carolina Opera for the 2010/2011 season.

From the COR President, January 2010

Merger with the Opera Company of North Carolina

Capital Opera Raleigh (COR) and the Opera Company of North Carolina (OCNC) have recently agreed to join forces in order to strengthen and expand the overall operatic offerings in the Triangle and throughout North Carolina. Both boards have approved a merger so a new company, North Carolina Opera, will shortly appear. The new company will formally begin operations on July 1, 2010 and will combine all the best of COR and OCNC to offer main stage productions at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts and emerging and local artist productions either at the Fletcher Opera Theater or at Meredith College. In addition there will be educational programs involving k-12 schools, local colleges and universities and other audiences. The opportunities for audiences, performers and other artists associated with opera production will expand significantly. This combined entity will allow both of our organizations to vigorously accomplish our missions.

We are very excited that the work we have done over the past seven years to offer the public affordable opera involving emerging and local artists, while educating our young people about the art of Opera, will continue even more strongly than before. Of course, for all of us, as the two names of COR and OCNC are replaced by NCO, there is some regret that the status quo cannot go on forever but we believe that this new venture is right for all the citizens of Raleigh and North Carolina and especially those who love Opera or those who will come to love it, perhaps with our help.

Lastly, I would be remiss not to acknowledge the enormous dedication of Joel Adams and Ellen Williams who brought Capital Opera Raleigh into being, nurtured it and supported it through seven wonderful years. I do believe that their efforts are paying off now in the best possible way.

W. McCulloch, COR President.