Principal Oboe Auditions

Arizona Opera Orchestra (performing in Phoenix and Tucson, AZ) announces auditions for the following:

Principal Oboe (27 svcs*)

Audition date: Monday, September 21, 2026 
Resumes due Monday, September 14, 2026

*Projected number of services for 2026/27 Season

2026/27 Season per service rate*:

Principal Oboe: $192.79 
Plus per diem, travel and hotel stipend per CBA. Contact Orchestra Manager for details.

Principal Oboe auditions will take place on Monday, September 21, 2026 at the Arizona Opera Center. Times will be announced prior.

Applications are due Monday, September 14, 2026. To apply, please email your resume to orchmanager@azopera.org.

Audition Materials List:

Click here to download audition excerpts

Required excerpts are marked with brackets on azopera.org and at the audition.

Solo

• Mozart – Oboe Concerto, first movement, exposition only - beginning to m. 97

Orchestra Excerpts

• Beethoven – Fidelio: Act II, No. 11: Poco Allegro (F Major): mm 89-139
• Mozart – Così fan tutte: Overture: (play bracketed sections)
• Puccini – Madama Butterfly: Act I: (play bracketed sections)
• Rossini – La Scala di Seta: Overture: (play bracketed sections - Articulation at
• player’s discretion)
• Rossini – Italian in Algiers: Overture (Play bracketed sections - Articulation at
• player’s discretion)
• Strauss – Rosenkavalier:
  • Act I: 1m before Reh 8-4m after Reh 9;
  • Act I: Reh 271-274;
  • Act II: Reh 34, m2- Reh 38
• Verdi – Aida:
  • Act II: 9 mm after Rehearsal E to Rehearsal G, beat one
  • Act III: Rehearsal C to one measure before Rehearsal E
  • Act III: Rehearsal S to Rehearsal T
• Verdi – Rigoletto:
  • Act II: Andantino after rehearsal 28 to 30 measures after rehearsal 29
• Wagner - Parsifal:
  • Good Friday Spell: Act III: Rehearsal 256 to Rehearsal 257 (second measure)