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THE METROPOLITAN OPERA

NATIONAL COUNCIL AUDITIONS NORTHWEST REGION

 

Cordially invites you to attend our

2008 Summer Musicale

Featuring 3 exciting young opera singers, each one a Northwest Regional prize-winner

 

- RHOSLYN JONES, soprano, Vancouver, BC, currently a second-year Adler Fellow

with the San Francisco Opera

- MICHAEL ANTHONY MCGEE, bass-baritone, Seattle, 2007-08 fellow in the Seattle

Opera’s Young Artist program, where he played the lead in Gianni Schicchi

- BRAY WILKINS, tenor, Moscow, Idaho, currently a fellow at The Music Academy of

the West, and a 2008-09 Seattle Opera Young Artist

 

Sunday, June 22, 2008, 2:00 P.M.

 

with Beth Kirchhoff at the piano

Our setting again this year is the Belltown residence of

KORYN ROLSTAD

80 Vine St, Seattle

Valet parking will be available

 

The musical program will last about one hour with 25 minutes intermission

Light refreshments will be served

 

Choice of 2 of ticket levels

$100 DONOR level

$250 PATRON level - Front Row Seating

Reservation cards and checks (payable to MONC/NW) by June 17th to:

Constance Clarke

25812 76th Ave SW

Vashon, WA 98070

Seating is limited, so early reservations are advised.

Your reservation is secured once your check is received.

All attendees will be entered in a drawing to win 2 tickets to a

live HIGH-DEFINITION Metropolitan Opera broadcast in a local theater

during the Met Opera’s 2008-2009 season.

 

Questions, call Conni Clarke at (206) 463-2920

 

 

 

The purpose of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions is to:

1. To discover exceptional young talent.

2. To provide a venue for young opera singers from all over the country and at all different levels of experience to be heard by a representative of the Metropolitan Opera and to assist those with the greatest potential in their development.

3. To identify new talent for the Metropolitan Opera and for possible participants in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

Many current and past participants in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program have successfully competed in the National Council Auditions, as have a high percentage of the principal artists on the Metropolitan Opera roster. On average, every season there are over 100 singers on the Met roster that have gone through the auditions program. The auditions are a nationwide competition beginning at the National Council's district level and culminating in the National Council Grand Finals Concert at The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Applicants many choose to enter any district audition regardless as to whether they are a resident of the area. District winners must compete in the region finals of the region in which they were district winners. The winners from the sixteen regions represent their region at the National Semi-Finals in New York, where they will present two arias on the Metropolitan Opera stage accompanied by piano. Approximately ten of these singers are selected as National Finalists, and compete in the National Grand Finals Concert, which is held exactly one week later. The National Grand Finalists perform two arias each on the stage of The Metropolitan Opera accompanied by The MET Orchestra in the form of a concert. Up to five equal winners will be chosen and awarded $15,000 each, and the remaining Finalists will receive $5,000 each. National Semi-Finalists not advancing to the Finals each receive $1,500. The Grand Finals Concert is broadcast nationwide on The Metropolitan Opera Radio Network.

 

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