REPERTOIRE:
Besides your assigned roles and/or cover roles, you will be singing in at LEAST two major concerts and one casual night of singing in a beautiful Locanda off the main street in Orvieto. As such, we ask that you send us a list of -- for which repertoire you arrive prepared and fully memorized -- at least 5 arias and art songs and/or music theater pieces. For us, an optimal ratio is something like 3 arias and 2 songs of any kind. Please make sure that in this list is at least ONE selection from the Lieder, Chanson, Canzone, or Art Song repertoire, as our Mayor's Palace concert will have a strong component of Art Song. We will choose certain numbers from the list you provide; you won't perform them all in most cases.
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 message me through Messenger/Facebook with your preferred concert repertoire. I would appreciate having this by the end of February.
Clara Salomon or salomonclara
If there is a scene you've dreamed of performing, feel free to add it in and we'll see if it can fit into our programmes. Please remember though, 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 our Cabaret performance or possible participation in one of the city's outdoor festivals. Last, IF you already have a white concert dress, please bring it, as one of our biggest events is a "Concert for Peace." The piano will be white, and if a few of you can wear all white it would be lovely. 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) if you forget something, and there is a wonderful shop in Orvieto with very inexpensive dresses which transform styles depending on how you wrap it, and costs around 40Euro. .
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 the outdoor venue, black will show up just fine in the Mayor's Palace. If you have any accessories such as scarves and bowties that you are used to wearing or like, 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 the more casual cabaret, slacks and an elegant shirt will do just fine. Everything well-pressed. The hotel has 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 Orvieto -- 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 LEAST two major concerts and one casual night of singing in a beautiful Locanda off the main street in Orvieto. As such, we ask that you send us a list of -- for which repertoire you arrive prepared and fully memorized -- at least 5 arias and art songs and/or music theater pieces. For us, an optimal ratio is something like 3 arias and 2 songs of any kind. Please make sure that in this list is at least ONE selection from the Lieder, Chanson, Canzone, or Art Song repertoire, as our Mayor's Palace concert will have a strong component of Art Song. We will choose certain numbers from the list you provide; you won't perform them all in most cases.
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 message me through Messenger/Facebook with your preferred concert repertoire. I would appreciate having this by the end of February.
Clara Salomon or salomonclara
If there is a scene you've dreamed of performing, feel free to add it in and we'll see if it can fit into our programmes. Please remember though, 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 our Cabaret performance or possible participation in one of the city's outdoor festivals. Last, IF you already have a white concert dress, please bring it, as one of our biggest events is a "Concert for Peace." The piano will be white, and if a few of you can wear all white it would be lovely. 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) if you forget something, and there is a wonderful shop in Orvieto with very inexpensive dresses which transform styles depending on how you wrap it, and costs around 40Euro. .
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 the outdoor venue, black will show up just fine in the Mayor's Palace. If you have any accessories such as scarves and bowties that you are used to wearing or like, 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 the more casual cabaret, slacks and an elegant shirt will do just fine. Everything well-pressed. The hotel has 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 Orvieto -- whom we are representing and who values the singers of this program as one of their important, yearly cultural offerings -- then we're HAPPY!!!