AUDITIONS
FOR THE 2011 PROGRAMS OF SAN FRANCISCO OPERA CENTER
including
MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM
ADLER FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

San Francisco Opera Center, Sheri Greenawald, Director, under the auspices of the internationally renowned San Francisco Opera, David Gockley, General Director, and Nicola Luisotti, Music Director, offers a continuing sequence of performance and career development opportunities for the best young professional singers, coaches and stage directors.

Successful auditionees are invited to participate in the Merola Opera Program, a summer program of performance and study. The Adler Fellowship Program is a renewable yearlong residency offered to selected singers and coaches who have completed the Merola Opera Program. Additionally, selected artists may be offered contracts for a debut recital with the Opera Center’s Schwabacher Debut Recital Series. This series, endowed in perpetuity by the generosity of celebrated Bay Area singer, scholar, and teacher James Schwabacher, takes place each spring at a San Francisco venue.

Each summer, the Merola Opera Program provides intensive training for selected singers, coaches and stage directors. Participants receive classes in acting, languages and stage movement, as well as individual coaching and master classes with international artists and directors. An opera production, staged scenes program with orchestra, and concert with orchestra will be presented. For five years after leaving Merola, alumni may be eligible, with Merola's approval, to receive up to a total of $10,000 in career grants, with a maximum of $5,000 in any single year.

Repertoire will include:

Rossini’s
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
(sung in Italian)
This opera will be double cast

SCENES PROGRAM with orchestra
Open to all voice types
Repertoire will be chosen to showcase these artists
All scenes staged

MEROLA GRAND FINALE
A concert with all artists performed with orchestra on the stage of San Francisco Opera

Every singer will be cast in either the opera or the scenes program

Regional auditions in 2010:

Please note: Apprentice Coach auditions and Apprentice Stage Director interviews have very specific date and time availability. Please refer to applications for details.

The 2011 Merola Opera Program will take place at San Francisco Opera from June 20 through August 21, 2011 (apprentice coaches will begin June 13).

New this season: San Francisco Opera Center is using a YAP Tracker application for all submissions. You do not need to be a paying subscriber to YAP Tracker to use the application form, although you will need an account. Guest accounts are available; please see YAP Tracker’s Website for details. www.yaptracker.com 

Please review the appropriate YAP Tracker listings as follows:

Singer Listing: http://www.yaptracker.com/listing/13771

Apprentice Coach Listing: http://www.yaptracker.com/listing/14739

Apprentice Stage Director Listing: http://www.yaptracker.com/listing/14740

You may also access the YAP Tracker Tutorial here:  http://www.yaptracker.com/tours/apps

If you prefer to submit your material through the mail, you may do so by printing out our application form on YAP Tracker (go to appropriate Listing link as noted above) and mail it to us as instructed in the Listing on or before your region’s deadline date. You will need to provide your Musical Authority References our form, as noted below.

For a paper version of our Musical Authority Reference form to provide for your reference, in lieu of submitting the online form directly through YAP Tracker, please print the form from this link and provide directly to your reference. Be sure to inform your reference of your region’s deadline date, as their completed form will need to be mailed on or before the deadline date for the region that you are applying to.
Musical Authority Reference form 

If you have questions concerning the YAP Tracker application process, please contact: help@yaptracker.com

For questions regarding the San Francisco Opera Center Auditions, please contact: merolaauditions@sfopera.com or (415) 565-3277.