Your decision in part might be made on whether or not you AUTOMATICALLY get to sing an additional piece. If not, I would strongly recommend against singing something obscure first. It might be all they want to hear!
I have been in this situation, and my experience is that if you do something obscure, people are bound to think you are trying to hide something. People who listen to auditions "talk out of both sides of their mouths" in that they complain about singers having no imagination in their repertoire choices, but then "tune out" if it's something they don't know.
(They also complain that young singers sing "too big" then give first place to someone singing two "Fachs" too heavy!)
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