BROTTOPERA is a 3 week paid opera program dedicated to offering highly talented emerging professional opera singers the opportunity and experience of performing with a full symphony orchestra. As part of the annual Brott Music Festival, this 7th edition of the program, based in Hamilton Ontario, will offer:
BROTTOPERA is open to emerging professional opera singers of any age ready to take on roles and perform them with full symphony orchestra. Maestro Boris Brott, one of Canada’s most decorated conductors, has a strong passion for and experience of working with singers. Don’t miss this chance….APPLY NOW!
The program will offer a fully staged production of Mozart’s COSI FAN TUTTE (in Italian), as well as POPOPERA, an opera excerpts concert, both with full symphony accompaniment. Selected singers will perform in both concerts. All singers should be of the highest professional standard when they arrive with their assigned role and repertoire memorized. Double accommodations will be provided and singers will be remunerated as follows:
Fiordiligi (soprano)………………………$1,000
Dorabella (mezzo)……………………….$1,000
Guglielmo (baritone)……………………$1,000
Ferrando (tenor)………………………….$1,000
Despina (soprano)……………………….$800
Don Alfonso (bass-baritone)………..$800
Double occupancy shared apartment accommodations, with kitchen (private bedroom) will be provided by BrottOpera at no charge. Free internet and free local calling are included.
EVERYONE IS GUARANTEED AN AUDITION (recorded auditions only)
Fill out the online application form: www.brottmusic.com/brott-opera
Pay application fee $50 (non-refundable)
Include your resume (max. 2 pages), be sure to include the names and contact information of at least 2 references from industry
professionals (voice teacher, coach, conductor, etc.)
Include a copy of your headshot
Acceptable video submission formats include Google Docs, Dropbox, as an attached file or link to a YouTube video.
Please note applicants CANNOT complete their application without submitting their application fee. If you have any issues completing your application please contact [email protected]
Brott Music Festival Office
301 Bay St S
Hamilton, ON L8P 3J7
Brott Music Festival acknowledges our presence on ancestral Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee Confederacy land as determined by the Dish with One Spoon treaty. The intent of this agreement is for all nations sharing this territory to do so responsibly, respectfully, and sustainably in perpetuity. We respect and seek to nurture the longstanding relationships with the local Indigenous communities, the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation, and the Six Nations of the Grand River.
