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    phyllis-adams
    Participant

    Anyone have the list yet? I emailed them but it’s the weekend. I’m sure hundreds of harpists will be descending upon Chicago!!

    #148938

    Phyllis,

    Page 36 of International Musician magazine, December 2010 issue,

    #148939

    I went to the web site of Lyric Opera of Chicago and found the correct information there. Go to:

    Orchaud@lyricopera.org

    #148940

    Opera auditions are tough. I have done a few of them.

    #148941
    phyllis-adams
    Participant

    Yes, the position is open and the dates have been corrected. The trick seems to be in getting them to respond to inquiries for specific audition repertoire.

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    PRINCIPAL HARP AUDITION

    REPERTOIRE LIST – SPRING 2011

    SOLO PIECE:

    Mozart Concerto: Mvt I

    or Handel Concerto: Mvt I

    EXCERPTS:

    Berg

    Lulu

    Act I: mm 170 to mm 180

    Act I: mm 365 to mm 389

    Act II: mm 1096 to mm 1116

    Britten

    Billy Budd
    Act I: 4 after Reh 63 to 5 after Reh 66
    Act I: 1 before Reh 111 to Reh 116

    Act II: Reh 50 to 5 after Reh 58

    Act II: Reh 70 to Reh 73

    Act II: Reh 96 to Reh 97

    Act II: Reh 113 to downbeat of Reh 117

    Act II: 1 before Reh 143 to end of opera

    Peter Grimes

    Interlude I

    Act I: Reh 38 to 7 after Reh 39

    Act II: Reh 7 to Reh 9

    Act II: Reh 58 to Reh 59

    Interlude V

    Interlude VI

    Donizetti

    Lucia di Lammermoor Act I: No 2 (version in D Major)

    Puccini

    La bohème

    Act I: Reh 5 to Reh 10

    Act I: Reh 41 to end of act

    Act III: beginning to Reh 2

    Act III: Reh 34 to end of act

    Manon Lescaut

    Act I: Reh 33 to Reh 37

    Act II: 14 before Reh 30 to Reh 31

    Act II: 1 before Reh 33 to 5 after Reh 34

    Strauss

    Salome

    Salome’s Dance: beginning to 4 after small letter k (Harp I)

    Ariadne auf Naxos

    Reh. 274 to downbeat of Reh 284 (Harp I – top line only)

    (revised version, 1916)

    Verdi

    Falstaff

    Entire opera

    La forza del destino

    Overture: Letter G to downbeat of Letter O

    Wagner

    Die Walküre

    Act III: 4 before Reh 97 to end of opera (Harp I only)

    Götterdämmerung

    Act III: Reh 3a to Reh 20

    Act III: Reh 68 to end of opera

    Tristan und Isolde

    Act II: Reh 112 to Reh 119

    Act II: Reh 151 to downbeat of Reh 15

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