WHEN: Saturday, September 27, 2008 • 10 am – 3 pm
WHERE: Santa Fe High School Choir Room
Singers must prepare one of the opera arias in advance, and call SFNM after September 15 to schedule audition time.
Santa Fe New Music announces auditions for the “Language of Birds" youth opera. The auditions take place on Saturday, September 27, 2008, from 10:00 – 3:00 at Santa Fe High Choir Room. Singers aged 8 through high school are invited to audition for all roles (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone) and choruses.
As a cornerstone of our 2008-2009 season, Santa Fe New Music presents “The Language of Birds," a two-act opera originally premiered in 2004 by the Sarasota Opera. Based on an award-winning children's book, and showcased at the 2004 Opera America convention, the opera will feature an overall cast of 100 children ages 8-18. The cast will work with a professional production and artistic team, and a professional chamber orchestra comprised of members of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. There will be three performances in Santa Fe at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, and one in Albuquerque at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in March, 2009. There is no tuition for participating in this project.
This project is an innovative kind of collaboration between a performing arts organization, the public schools, and the community at-large. Students from four Santa Fe Public Schools will be involved in the production (two elementary, one middle, one high school), with other children joining the cast through the audition process. Other components of the youth opera project include a videography project with public high schoolers, community service project for cast members, and statewide dissemination of teaching guides, a "discovery blog," and of the performance DVD are additional components.
Auditioning youth must visit our website to get the music to prepare for the audition, or call 505-474-6601. They must call SFNM at 505-474-6601 or email us to schedule their audition time. For more information about the overall youth opera project, visit: our website.
Through concerts, commissions, and educational events, Santa Fe New Music promotes understanding of, enthusiasm for, and participation in the music of our time, serving as an advocate for new classical music and its future. SFNM was founded by Artistic Director John Kennedy in 2000. Santa Fe New Music is a 501 (c) 3 corporation.
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