| Marika, Please forgive me if I've misread your post or am making false assumptions. The repertoire you list seems awfully demanding and ambitious for only 2 years of private study. Generally speaking, in my country (USA) someone preparing for university or conservatory would be about 18 years of age. We would not expect to hear such sophisticated and demanding repertoire as you are preparing. In fact, if you are 18, we would be concerned that you're doing too much repertoire that's too heavy and too soon. Please tell us a bit more. What is your age? Your musical and vocal experience? As someone who listens to many entrance auditions I can say that whatever you sing the best is what you should offer for an audition. You are wasting time to try to predict what the jury will think/say/do. Sing the pieces which "sit well" in your voice and let them be excited about your potential. regards, Cindy Donnell After two years of private voice studies we've started to prepare arias for
auditions (for university/conservatory). However, I really don't know,
whether I should choose mezzo or soprano arias. I know that the fach
question really should not matter now, but I feel I really can't sing both
mezzo and soprano arias in the same audition! The problem is mainly caused
by
THE REPERTOIRE
We've started to prepare soprano arias... (I need to have four of them)
Bellini: Eccomi in lieta vesta...Oh, quante volte (My absolute favorite,
perfect for my voice)
Dvorak: Rusalka's aria
Rossini: Selva Opaca
von Weber: Und ob die Wolke
Mozart: Porgi amor*
Mozart: Ach, ich fühl's*
*= these are likely to be dropped from
my list since they are so commonly sung in auditons
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