Resident Artists Program Auditions
The Minnesota Opera’s Resident Artist Program offers a full season of employment for talented artists beginning their professional careers. From late August through April, Resident Artists gain valuable experience in assignments ranging from ensemble, understudy, comprimario to leading roles in mainstage performances. Resident Artists also perform concerts on stage at Ordway Center for Performing Arts, Schubert Club's Courtroom Concerts, donor functions, adult education classes and regional outreach.
Master classes with guest clinicians, individualized language work, acting, movement and stage combat, yoga and professional career development are just a few benefits of the program.
The program is designed to bridge the gap between an artist’s academic education and professional career. Ideal Resident Artists are singers, coaches, administrators and directors who have completed their post-graduate education and may have some professional experience. We have no age limit and are an equal opportunity employer.
2013–2014 Resident Artist Program
Singer audition dates:
• Minneapolis: November 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17, 2012
• New York: November 28, 29, 30, and December 3, 4, 5, 2012
Coach/Accompanist dates:
• Minneapolis: November 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17, 2012
• New York: November 28, 29, 30, and December 3, 4, 5, 2012
coach/accompanist audition repertoire
– Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss): Composer's Aria – play/sing
– The Magic Flute (Mozart): Act I Quintet "Hm! Hm! Hm!" – play/sing
– The Dream of Valentino (Argento): pages 30–35 – play only (cadenza to bottom of 35)
– Manon Lescaut (Puccini): Prelude from start to bottom of page 3 at double-bar – play only
Coach/Accompanist Application Form
2012 – 2013 Resident Artists
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Victoria Vargas (mezzo-soprano)
Mezzo-soprano Victoria Vargas returns to Minnesota Opera, having appeared as Tisbe in Cinderella, Anna in Mary Stuart, Flora in La traviata, Nelly in Wuthering Heights, Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor and Suzuki in Madame Butterfly. This season, she sings Fenena in Nabucco and Smeton in Anna Bolena. Regionally, she recently sang with the Duluth Festival Opera and a concert of Carmen excerpts with the Mankato Symphony.
Ms. Vargas has been a young artist at Sarasota Opera and Chautauqua Operas, where she covered the role of Mamma Lucia in Cavalleria rusticana. At Chautauqua, she won the opera company’s Guild Studio Artist Award and returned for a second season as an Apprentice Artist, performing Laura in Luisa Miller and the Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte.
Other credits include Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro for Ash Lawn Opera and Martina Arroyo's Prelude to Performance; the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, the title role in Carmen and Dorabella in Così fan tutte for Hillman Opera; Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music for Lyric Arts International; and Miss Todd in The Old Maid and the Thief for Fredonia Opera Theater. She recently completed her master of music degree from Manhattan School of Music, where she appeared as Euryclée in Fauré's Pénélope, and the Beggar and Mrs. Peachum in The Beggar's Opera.
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