Rules for application when auditions are open:
1. You MUST RESIDE at an address located within 100 miles of Houston/Greater Houston area during the rehearsal process.

2. If your Houston address is greater than 50 miles from the Houston Heights area or the Sugarland area, you are welcome to still perform with us. However, you will not qualify for gas stipends included in the fine print of our contracts.

3. Please be a local artist that wants to live and help the local music & theater communities. We don't mind hiring one or two out of town singers, but it gets expensive, hairy, and just a lot more liability is involved as our mission statement SERVES the LOCAL community.

Shows: TBA either in November, December, or January

Rehearsals: TBA twice a week until tech, will be needed all of tech week and then 2-4 performances based on location and cost.

Opera Auditions

This year we are doing a professional cast, and then will think about double casting if there is lots of interest. Operativo will be doing the Rossini Art Song Cycle Soirees Musicales with a short, loose narrative using the fun and challenging arias/duets for a short 50 minute evening.

Roles

Elvira - lyric soprano

Eloisa - mezzo-soprano

Pastorella - coloratura soprano

Beppe - tenor

Tonio - tenor or baritone

Ruggiero - baritone

Order of Numbers for Opera

La Promessa - Elvira (writing a breakup letter to Beppe)

Il Rimprovero - Eloisa (lamenting to the skies)

La Partenza - Elvira (starting a depression spiral)

L'Orgia - Elvira & Eloisa (getting drunk together)

L'Invito - Eloisa (Tonio arrives, she begs him to love her)

La Pastorella Delle Alpi - Pastorella (diva arrival)

I Marinai - Beppe & Ruggiero (men arriving in town)

La Gita in Gondola - Tonio (seduces Elvira)

La Danza - Beppe (everyone is in a big party scene)

La Regata Veneziana - Elvira & Eloisa (narrating a fun race)

La Pesca - Pastorella & Eloisa (they sing about their new loves)

La Serenata - Pastorella & Beppe (they finally get together)

Audition Date(s) and Location:
We are taking part in the Houston Opera Collective's auditions as early bird auditions for this show which will take place September 12 & 13. We haven't announced it yet, but it will be relatively soon! So if you're interested in auditioning for any of the other opera companies, we'll be there too!

Once regular/non-earlybird audition location is confirmed we will post a link here.

If you are a professional and have an arrangement with Brian Yeakley, or if you've auditioned already in the last 3 years and want to skip the audition process while submitting your interest, please head to the link located here: UNAVAILABLE ATM