REPERTOIRE:
Besides your assigned roles and/or cover roles, you will be singing in at concerts. As such, we ask that you send us a repertoire list of prepared and fully memorized pieces. Examples include:
We understand that many of you have just enough time to learn your roles, but we might also request that you learn part of an operatic scene to be performed in one of our more public concerts. This is with your permission. That music also needs to be memorized before arrival if you agree to do it.
Please also remember that if you have a role in the Don Giovanni opera, the priority is with those intense stagings and so we may not have time to prepare you for an extended scene. We wish we could add another week to the program and still keep the cost reasonable...
You're encouraged to discuss repertoire with your regular teachers and coaches!
CONCERT DRESS:
Women* - At least one full-length concert gown of the sort you might wear for your final recitals or for a professional orchestral concert. And at least one more casual (but not too) cocktail type dress that you can wear for a concert in one of the city's outdoor venues. Sequins and some ritz are fine for that. Last, IF you already have a white concert dress, please bring it, as one of our biggest events is a "Concert for Peace." ABSOLUTELY not a requirement, everyone in white would look strange, just an idea! I also keep a few extra dresses on hand (size 6, white, covers bra line) (size 8, black, pantsuit, covers bra-line) (size 6 lilac spaghetti straps) if you forget something, and there are wonderful dress shops in the surrounding area.
Men* - Either black pants with a white shirt or ideally a tuxedo shirt, or black pants and a black, elegant, ideally collared shirt. White will show up better in any outdoor venue, black will show up just fine elsewhere. If you have any accessories such as scarves and bowties that you are used to wearing or like to wear, by all means bring them! Off-chance you have an elegant, all white-getup, that will go over well too, in the outdoor concert. As for more casual cabaret opportunities, slacks and a dress shirt will do just fine. Everything well-pressed. The hotel should have an iron. Short-sleeves okay for this, a little flashy preferred!
*If you have other dress-style preferences such as pants vs. dresses or vice versa, no problem! As long as your outfits match the level of formality and elegance called for by both the venues as well as expected by the town of Bodrum -- whom we are representing and who values the singers of this program as one of their important, yearly cultural offerings -- then we're HAPPY!!!
Besides your assigned roles and/or cover roles, you will be singing in at concerts. As such, we ask that you send us a repertoire list of prepared and fully memorized pieces. Examples include:
- 5 arias
- 2 art songs
- 1-3 musical theater pieces
- optional 1-5 scenes from operas and/or musical theater (also ones you might like to perform, you are welcome to stress that desire)
We understand that many of you have just enough time to learn your roles, but we might also request that you learn part of an operatic scene to be performed in one of our more public concerts. This is with your permission. That music also needs to be memorized before arrival if you agree to do it.
Please also remember that if you have a role in the Don Giovanni opera, the priority is with those intense stagings and so we may not have time to prepare you for an extended scene. We wish we could add another week to the program and still keep the cost reasonable...
You're encouraged to discuss repertoire with your regular teachers and coaches!
CONCERT DRESS:
Women* - At least one full-length concert gown of the sort you might wear for your final recitals or for a professional orchestral concert. And at least one more casual (but not too) cocktail type dress that you can wear for a concert in one of the city's outdoor venues. Sequins and some ritz are fine for that. Last, IF you already have a white concert dress, please bring it, as one of our biggest events is a "Concert for Peace." ABSOLUTELY not a requirement, everyone in white would look strange, just an idea! I also keep a few extra dresses on hand (size 6, white, covers bra line) (size 8, black, pantsuit, covers bra-line) (size 6 lilac spaghetti straps) if you forget something, and there are wonderful dress shops in the surrounding area.
Men* - Either black pants with a white shirt or ideally a tuxedo shirt, or black pants and a black, elegant, ideally collared shirt. White will show up better in any outdoor venue, black will show up just fine elsewhere. If you have any accessories such as scarves and bowties that you are used to wearing or like to wear, by all means bring them! Off-chance you have an elegant, all white-getup, that will go over well too, in the outdoor concert. As for more casual cabaret opportunities, slacks and a dress shirt will do just fine. Everything well-pressed. The hotel should have an iron. Short-sleeves okay for this, a little flashy preferred!
*If you have other dress-style preferences such as pants vs. dresses or vice versa, no problem! As long as your outfits match the level of formality and elegance called for by both the venues as well as expected by the town of Bodrum -- whom we are representing and who values the singers of this program as one of their important, yearly cultural offerings -- then we're HAPPY!!!
