Bit role/cover chorus auditions

This website should provide you with all the information you need to be considered for bit roles/covers in the 2024-25 Season.

Regular, Core Supplementary, and Supplementary Choristers:

Bit role/cover auditions for all Choristers will be held on Friday, August 16 from 11:00 – 2:00pm in Room 200 (subject to change).

The audition panel will be as follows: Michael Black, Chorus Director & Head of Music; Andreas Melinat, VP, Artistic Planning; Stephanie Karr, Senior Director of Music Administration. Noah Lindquist will accompany.

Below you will find PDFs of the excerpts you are expected to prepare for the audition listed next to the corresponding roles.

To sign up for an audition, you must email the Manager, Chorus & Dancers, Chorus, Sarah Cohn ([email protected]) no later than a week prior to the audition (by Friday, August 9) with a list of the bit roles/covers for which you would like to be considered. One we know how many people with be auditioning, we will assign arrival times by voice type.  While you should prepare all music for the bits/covers for which you would like to be considered, the panel may choose to hear only certain selections in the audition.

Should there be any updates to this information, inclusive of audition location or time, you will be emailed.

Eligibility:

Per Section 5.7(a) of the basic agreement, "Any general auditions for roles under this Section shall be open to all Choristers including Core Supplementary Choristers and Supplementary Choristers engaged in the production." Please note that for the roles of the Page and Giovanna in Rigoletto, any Regular Choristers of the proper voice type may audition.

*Tentative* rosters have been attached for all productions so that you may reference the production(s) in which you are cast and, therefore, which bit roles/covers you are eligible to audition for.

Please note that in order to accept any offer resulting from these auditions, you must be available for all performances with no current conflicts/pending conflicts.