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French or German aria for Mezzo ideas?

metaoblivia · 2018-02-15 20:27:36

I'm doing an audition on March 11 that requires 5 arias in at least 3 different languages. This is for the summer program with the New York Lyric Opera. I don't expect to make it, but I want the experience of an audition because I have one later that month that I have a better shot at. I have 4 arias ready: Must the Winter…

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I'm doing an audition on March 11 that requires 5 arias in at least 3 different languages. This is for the summer program with the New York Lyric Opera. I don't expect to make it, but I want the experience of an audition because I have one later that month that I have a better shot at. I have 4 arias ready:

Must the Winter Come So Soon
Smanie Implacabili
Che faro senza Euridice
Una voce poca fa

I need a 5th song in either German or French, but I'm having trouble finding one. I'm a coloratura mezzo who does lyric as well and my voice teacher insists that I cannot take a song out of my fach to an audition, which excludes all dramatic mezzo arias, including Carmen and Samson et Dalila. This is frustrating because I know and can sing at least two arias from those operas well. I also have a coloratura French art song that I sing really well, but it's not an aria, so I can't use it.

Most true coloratura music was written in Italian, which I already have plenty of. I'm working on Que fais-tu, but I'm not sure I can have the ending ready in time. I need something short, in French or German that's definitely not dramatic mezzo that I can learn in a few weeks in case Que fais-tu isn't ready. Any ideas?

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