Bergen County’s New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera (Verismo Opera), the only grand, professional opera company based in northern New Jersey, is celebrating its 23rd season in 2013 with Love, Comedy, Obsession and Murder.
Artistic Director and Met Opera luminary Lucine Amara invites soloists to audition for all roles in the company’s new productions of Ruggiero Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci and Giacomo Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi to be performed on Sunday, April 21 at 3:00 p.m. and Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Puccini’s Suor Angelica on Sunday, October 20 at 3:00 p.m. at the Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC), located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, New Jersey.
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Open auditions will be held on Monday, January 7, 2013 from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. at the bergenPAC in the Cabaret Room, 30 North Van Brunt Street. Boys, nine to eleven years of age, with a soprano voice are also invited to apply for the role of Gherardino in Gianni Schicchi.
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The application deadline is December 31, 2012. An accompanist will be provided. For an audition appointment, call 201-562-5666 or 201-886-0561 or send an e-mail. Applicants must submit a bio, resume, current photo and an audio file, preferably in a MP3 format or on a CD, by the application deadline electronically or to Verismo Opera Inc., P.O. Box 3024, Fort Lee, New Jersey 07024-9024.
Funding
The 2013 season is made possible, in part, with funds provided by the New Jersey Council on the Arts/Department of State, through grand funds administered by the Bergen County Department of Parks, Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs. Other supporters include the Mary Casella Briggs Memorial Fund, The Gerda Lissner Foundation, Inc., Vanguard Charitable Endowment Fund, Children’s Aid Foundation, Paul Weiss Matching Fund, Robert J. Campbell, MD and Cesare L. Santeramo, KSJ.
Verismo Opera is recognized for providing up and coming performing artists with the training to attain a successful operatic career. Several singers, notably Richard Hobson, Frank Poretta, Emmanuel di Villarosa, James Valenti and Irina Rindzuner of the Metropolitan Opera, started their road to success by performing in its productions.
For more information about Verismo Opera, visit its web site, follow the company on Facebook, or call (201) 886-0561.
