![]() "Because I got hired by HGO and I said, 'Well let's try this and see if it works.'"Īlthough the audience experience comes down to a night of singing lasting about 100 minutes, there is a lot of interaction that precedes that, Wilson says. "I was going to become a teacher," she says. Wilson said she didn't realize how important it was at the time she competed, but as it turned out "Because of doing the Concert of Arias it changed my entire life direction." Prior to entering the Houston Grand Opera's Studio Artist program, her plan was to return to the University of Cincinnati-College-Conservatory of Music for its doctoral program. When you do win you get the added bonus of something to help pay off your student loans and will have the opportunity hopefully to be invited to the studio." " A lot of agents and heads of companies come to see the concert so in a way it's a mini audition as well. "It’s important because it is a top level competition in our country and even if you don't win you do get name recognition for the first time," says Wilson who herself won the competition in 2005. Tamara Wilson, the internationally recognized soprano who will host the evening's events, knows how crucial this appearance can be. This Friday, Houston Grand Opera's 2021 Concert of Arias will air live but virtually as HGO like other arts organizations continues to work its way around COVID-19 restrictions. The rewards are still the same - recognition, prize money, possible accepted into a respected training program - but the ambience, well it'll be a bit different. Imagine you are a young singer, hoping for a career in opera and you've worked hard enough, been good enough and had enough stamina to reach the finalist stage of a competition where you'll be performing before a theater jammed with opera lovers.īut now instead of facing a live audience at your big moment, you are instead greeted with facsimiles of people: 2D cardboard cutouts filling the seats as you sing two arias in the course of the evening before a panel of judges. ![]()
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