you need to find the pieces that really sparkle when you sing them otherwise there is no way to distinguish you from the 29 others singing the same aria. I, too, used to sing whatever I could sing, with an extensive range, that gave me lots of stuff to sing. Then I started really listening to singers - really listening with a critical ear not for their interpretation, their language skills, or their technique, but to the sound of the voice, the colors presented in the aria, and listening specifically for that sparkle. When a voice is singing rep that is really right, the voice dances, it is vibrant, and therefore, it sparkles. When a voice is singing rep that works in the voice, the sound can be any combination of the following: duller, edgier, shrill, labored, wobbly, pitchy, and otherwise not quite right. You need to have ears you really trust, people who know what a voice will sound like in a large house, and you need to really work to find the arias that allow your voice to sparkle. You would be better off presenting two or three arias that really sparkle, than 5 that are just good.
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