Audition service



Audition service - consulting for auditioners
Don't waste any money on writing to agents who never respond. Don't waste any money singing for agents who don't have jobs! Don't waste any money on writing to houses that never invite singers to auditions! Don't waste any precious audition by offering wrong repertoire. 
Do go auditioning in Europe with the help of the Vivace Arts audition service. You will be grateful to have a professional career coach to talk things over with. Someone who knows the business. You can book the Vivace Arts audition service as a one-off service before you come to Europe or during your stay. Single modules. No monthly retainers. The consulting can be done over the phone and via email, or in a meeting. It makes sense to book some modules as early as possible, because it will give you some time to modify your audition rep and polish the recommended arias. In case you have to postpone or cancel your audition trip: modifications about arrival dates, rep details etc. can be done at any time, since you will receive all apllication papers as word files via email, with your address on it.  
In order to be of profound help, Vivace Arts will need your photo, your rep+resume/cv, and ideally a CD or an mp3 clip, from you, or hear you live in an auditionsession /coaching in order to give good individual advice. We will let you know what repertoire European/German agents will most probably want to hear from you in auditions. We will check your German in the arias (Ursula is a German born ex singer). We will provide you with a hotlist of important agents who do hold auditions for Opera singers, and really do have jobs! (You will have noticed the free list of over 90 German agents in this website. Many of these are, however, pure concert agents, or agents who generally don't hold auditions at all, or are even out of business, but for odd reasons still part of the official agents lists in books.  
The VivaceArts auditioning service will provide you with information about which are the agents for you to contact, and what they want from you, and what casting directors will want from you, too. It's crucial that we discuss and define your European Fach (voice category) before you come to Europe. This will raise your chances of getting auditions immensely! If you know what people will want from you in an audition, you can raise your chances of coming out like a winner. Vivace Arts will help you with this.  


How much does it cost?
How much does it cost? - I offer service modules:
-> the first email/call is free up to 10 min. consultation!
-> creation of a German bio+repertoire MSword file including graphics+photos (100 €) - the appropriate/ideal German resume format.
-> a translation of a bio/cv/resume/pressclips page into English/French/German (30€per page) (it' s an alternative to the above)
-> an individual audition coaching/analysis/meeting/consultation in Berlin,
2- 3 hours, including a shortlist of 5 selected agents, including comments on your resume/CV, photo, dresscode, Fach, (160 € incl. pianist +room, 140 € if two singers take part)
-> an agents hot list (your individual hot list of European agents, usually
around 25-35 agents) with comments, "ranking" and a 30 min consultation, incl Fach discussion, recommendation regarding audition arias to bring, comments on your resume, photo and CV, incl. post-auditions-consultation/discussing feedbacks after agents' and house auditions (up to 7 auditions) - 80 €,
> creation of an individual application letter in German incl. Graphics (20€)
-> a ready to print out template letter file to all your agents in German (30€)
-> if none of the above modules seem right for you, a general individual consultation on the opera system in Europe, and strategic career-planning (meeting in my office or in Berlin or over the phone and via email (120 € for 90 min)- this module is not needed if you meet me for an audition consultation or book the "agents listr" module -> You will get an invoice/receipt, of course.  
How do I pay?
Through www.paypal.com. All you need is to be online and have your credit card number ready. Artists with a German or EU-bank account can do a normal bank transfer, of course. No need to pay anything in advance. You will get an invoice. 


General Vivace Arts services
- German and Engish spoken
- located near Berlin, Germany
- career-consulting for professional singers
  		- profound information about the German speaking opera business, agents and the contract system
- analysis of your European voice category (Fach)
- providing of a hotlist of agent adresses and comments on them
- websites for artists, .de and .com available from 100€ /249€ more
- auditiontrainings/coachings/classes held in Berlin