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OPERA America's National Opera Center offers an affordable, professional venue in Midtown Manhattan for hosting your next vocal, instrumental, or theatrical auditions.

Choose from various large, medium, and small spaces — all with regularly tuned pianos — to meet your needs. Build a flexible audition rental package that includes warm-up rooms, waiting rooms, audition monitors, live-streaming, recording, and more.

  • Large, medium, and small room options, customizable to budget
  • Regularly tuned pianos in every room, including grands, baby grands, and uprights (Yamaha and Steinway)
  • Flexible packages with warm-up and waiting rooms for artists, audition monitors, post-audition adjudication rooms, early opens/late closes, and accompanist recommendations available
  • Built-in Zoom functionality for remote auditions in select rooms
  • Built-in high-definition, multicamera recording capabilities in select rooms
  • Acoustically balanced rooms with sound paneling
  • Centrally located near more than a dozen subway lines, Amtrak, PATH, bus lines, and airport shuttles
  • Onsite amenities include complimentary high-speed Wi-Fi, lounge, water fountains, and vending machines

Available to individuals and organizations working in opera, musical theater, chamber music, choruses, piano performance, theater, comedy troupes, and other disciplines. Dance is not permitted because floors are not sprung.

Open call auditions are prohibited.

Book Your Next Auditions Today

Contact us at Reservations@operaamerica.org or 212.796.8630 to schedule your next auditions at the National Opera Center.

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Contact us at Reservations@operaamerica.org or 212.796.8630 to schedule your next auditions at the National Opera Center.

Marc A. Scorca Hall

CAPACITY
15 Basic / 72 Premium

The centerpiece of the National Opera Center, Marc A. Scorca Hall offers you an impressive yet intimate space for performances, recitals, auditions, and recordings. The acoustically excellent venue features a regularly tuned Yamaha 7’ grand piano, raised stage with theatrical lighting, professional audio-visual recording, projecting and streaming systems, and a green room.

Learn more about Scorca Hall

Hourly Rates
Basic
Member: $156 Standard: $208
Premium
Member: $181 Standard: $233
Rehearsal Hall

CAPACITY
15 Basic / 60 Premium

The Rehearsal Hall allows you the creative flexibility of running a workshop, producing a chamber concert, holding auditions, or hosting a special event. The adaptable space features a regularly tuned Steinway Hamburg D 9' grand piano, adjustable lighting, and a professional built-in audio-visual recording system.

Learn more about the Rehearsal Hall

Hourly Rates
Basic
Member: $105 Standard: $140
Premium
Member: $125 Standard: $160
Charles MacKay Studio

CAPACITY
15 Basic / 30 Premium

The multipurpose Charles MacKay Studio offers you a mid-sized venue for auditions, rehearsals, receptions, and meetings. With natural and overhead lighting, the room features a regularly tuned Yamaha 5’3” grand piano and a built-in teleconference setup.

Learn more about MacKay Studio

Hourly Rates
Basic
Member: $66 Standard: $88
Premium
Member: $76 Standard: $98

Contact us at Reservations@operaamerica.org or 212.796.8630 to book your next auditions.

The National Opera Center is located in Midtown Manhattan at 330 Seventh Avenue, 7th floor, at the corner of 29th Street. Learn more.