Opéra de Saint Etienne viola

(per service, short-term)

The Opéra de Saint-Etienne is looking for a solo viola (fixed-term contract) for its orchestra.
The audition will take place on 20 June 2025.

Programme:

1st round behind screen:
Franz Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821, from beginning to bar 124 (1st beat)

+ orchestral excerpts:
Hector Berlioz: Le Carnaval romain op9, from bar 37 to 60
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro KV 492, overture

2nd round without screen:
candidate's choice of the 1st movement of:
Béla Bartók: Viola Concerto from the beginning to bar 153
Paul Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher
William Walton: Viola Concerto, entire 1st movement

+orchestral excerpts:
Félix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, No. 2 Scherzo, first excerpt from bar 17 to bar 40, first beat. Second excerpt from bar 59 to bar 93, first beat.
Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut, solo
Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose, solo

3rd round:
orchestral excerpts:
solo:
Adolphe Adam: Giselle
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote op35
Carl-Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz

tutti:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major Op. 92, first 50 bars of the 2nd movement Allegretto
Hector Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet, beginning
Gioachino Rossini: The Thieving Magpie, overture
Bedřich Smetana: The Bartered Bride, Overture: Vivacissimo (excerpt beginning at bar 107, 1st beat)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64, 3rd movement: Waltz

Registration before 1 June with Anne Bescobo, musical training manager:
anne.bescobo@saint-etienne.fr
06 17 28 67 99