Auditions
2026 resident artists program
Our 2026 Resident Artists Program applications are LIVE through YAP Tracker! Available opportunities include roles for Singers, Pianists/Coaches, Assistant Directors, and Assistant Conductors. Scroll for links to the opportunity pages and applications.
Program Dates
May 27, 2026 – August 17, 2026
Program Information
The Resident Artists Program was established at Glimmerglass in 1988 as an important component of the company’s mission to promote an artistically stimulating environment for young performers. The program provides training and performance experience for talented singers at the beginning of their professional careers.
The Resident Artists Program is distinguished from many other apprentice programs in the variety and quality of the opportunities it provides its members, most of whom have recently completed or are completing their academic studies. Many have already begun professional careers, singing with regional/national companies. For three months, Resident Artists are treated as professionals and provided with compensation, a place to live, and transportation.
The focus of the program is on education through performance. Resident Artists receive opportunities in mainstage productions, working with world-class directors, designers, and conductors.
Members of the Resident Artists Program sing principal and supporting roles, cover all roles in mainstage productions, sing in the chorus, are presented in concerts, receive coachings, participate in performance classes, and perform in the community. In addition to rehearsing and performing, Resident Artists attend specialized classes, and are given instruction in such skills as audition techniques, role preparation, and the business aspects of managing a career.
Administrators from many of the world’s leading opera houses and artist managers visit Glimmerglass to hear the Resident Artists in performance and auditions. Many of the Resident Artists are offered roles or representation as a result of their appearances at Glimmerglass.
To learn more about The Glimmerglass Festival:
https://glimmerglass.org/commitment/
https://glimmerglass.org/about/
The 2026 Festival will feature a new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! directed by Francesca Zambello; Puccini, Illica, and Giacosa’s Madame Butterfly; Mozart and Da Ponte’s Così in a new English translation by Kelley Rourke, and Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce’s Fellow Travelers, alongside special Pavilion events and the youth opera Robin Hood by Ben Moore and Kelley Rourke.
For more information about the 2026 Festival, read the Press Release here.
singers: application due august 22, 2025
Click here for the application, and click here for the opportunity page and details.
pianists/coaches: application due august 22, 2025
Click here for the application, and click here for the opportunity page and details.
assistant directors: application due october 3, 2025
Click here for the application, and click here for the opportunity page and details.
assistant conductors: application due october 3, 2025
Click here for the application, and click here for the opportunity page and details.
Questions? Email yap_info@glimmerglass.org.
