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The Miami Music Festival Application Deadline is Thursday, January 15th! Spend your summer in Miami's notorious South Beach to attend Miami Music Festival! While enjoying the white sands and blue waters, you will perform a role with orchestra and sharpen your craft with individual instruction with prominent voice faculty, coaches, conductors, and directors.  A highlight of the season includes our Immersive Opera Production, where innovative projection mapping technology brings the opera story vividly to life around you. 2026 Production: Cendrillon | Jules Massenet. Website: https://www.miamimusicfestival.com/vocal-institutes

Prague Summer Nights hosts aspiring young opera professionals for 4 weeks of individual coaching & voice lessons in Tábor & Prague with faculty from top schools such as Juilliard, UT Austin, Oberlin, Northwestern University, U-M & DU. Participate in an opera scenes program/performance, a cabaret night and fully staged opera productions of Puccini’s Suor Angelica at the Church of Sts. Simon & Jude, accompanied by a larger PSN chamber ensemble, and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte & Don Giovanni in the Estates Theatre - where Mozart himself premiered Don Giovanni - accompanied by the full PSN orchestra. Live auditions start Jan 18 - full schedule available on website. Scholarships available. 2nd Round Application Deadline: Jan 18, 2026. Apply now!

Singers ages 18-29: apply by January 20th for the Janiec Opera Company of the Brevard Music Center’s 2026 season! This 9-week immersive training session includes three fully staged opera productions and an additional show, all directed by Director of Opera Dean Anthony.   Additional program features include: • All roles are sung by students • No double-casting • Daily classes and coaching in style, diction, action, and movement • Audition technique workshops and guest masterclasses • Scholarship support for all opera students.   2026 Titles: The Marriage of Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Falling and The Rising - Zach Redler. H.M.S. Pinafore - Gilbert & Sullivan. An Evening of Lerner and Loewe. Learn more and apply now at www.brevardmusic.org/opera

The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Academy/Florence Opera house announces open the enrolment to the selection of Répétiteurs/Opera coaches for admission to the Maria Manetti Shrem Emerging Artists Program, a two-year artist residency for advanced training and professional development for répétiteurs/opera coaches and opera singers. Application deadline: 26 April 2026 Info and applications: www.maggiofiorentino.com/en/accademia/bandi/announcement-of-selection-for-répétiteurs-opera-coaches

We are excited to announce the inaugural year of the Jacobs School of Music Summer Vocal Intensive at Indiana University. A transformative program designed for aspiring vocalists seeking to refine their artistry, technique and stage presence in a focused and inspiring environment, participants will engage in voice lessons, vocal coaching, diction classes, stage movement, opera scenes, masterclasses and more with members of the world-renowned JSoM voice faculty over the course of three weeks. This program offers a unique opportunity to deepen one's craft and expand artistic confidence. Dates: June 29-July 17, 2026. Audition Deadline: February 9, 2026. https://jacobsacademy.indiana.edu/descriptions/summer-vocal-intensive.html

Spend two weeks in Nashville this May immersed in bel canto style, dramatic truth, and confident Italian. The Nashville Bel Canto Foundation’s Bel Canto Opera Scenes Intensive is a full-tuition scholarship program for emerging opera singers. Selected artists will receive daily coachings, diction sessions, staging rehearsals, and masterclasses, culminating in a public opera scenes performance in one of Nashville’s most beautiful acoustic spaces. Faculty includes: • Stefano Baldasseroni • Marcello Cormio • Alessandra Volpi • Savanna Sokolnicki We are looking for highly motivated singers who want to deepen their technical and stylistic foundation, refine their Italian, and explore character and storytelling in a supportive, professional environment.

Train and Immerse Yourself in Italy This Summer   // January 15th, 2026 Deadline to Apply. Intensify your operatic training this summer at Saluzzo Opera Academy: perform with orchestra and fully immerse yourself in Italian language and culture at Berlin Opera Academy's sister academy. Nestled in the foothills of the Italian Alps between Milan and Nice, sits a beautiful 14th century monastery, home to Saluzzo Opera Academy.  2026 Repertoire // Don Giovanni Mozart & Alcina Händel. Perform a role with Orchestra. Study with faculty actively working in the international opera scene. Receive personal mentorship. Specialized Masterclasses & Coachings. Italian Language Class & Immersion. Local Student Accommodation. Over €150k in scholarships available

La Musica Lirica 2026 - Celebrating 27 years of operatic excellence. Application deadline: February 27th Apply today, and take your first step towards making your career dreams come true in the enchanting Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. We are presenting 3 fully staged and costumed operas, La Rondine, Cosi fan tutte and L'impresario in angustie; the first 2 being presented with professional orchestra. In addition, we offer advanced opportunities for pianists and conductors. This is an intensive 5 week program that includes daily Italian language courses, weekly lessons and coachings, masterclasses and concert performances, all under the tutelage of world-renowned artists and educators. June 20th - July 25th, 2026. https://lamusicalirica.com/

We have extended our deadline for the QSVI Opera Division to 2/1/26 & the QSVI High School Division is still accepting applications on a rolling basis until spots are filled. The QSVI experience provides each young artist across two separate divisions (High School Divison and Opera Division for College aged and Pre Professional level singers) with a strong foundation of essential tools to excel in the competitive world of vocal performance. Led by acclaimed regional and international professionals, this intensive summer program is sure to train, motivate, and inspire each young singer! Opera Division singers perfom roles in staged opera productions, participate in masterclasses, management consultations, lessons, coachings and more! High School Division singers prepare for success in performance opportunities, college audition prepration, professional auditions, lessons, coachings, diction classes & more!

Deadlines are coming soon for January’s live auditions across the country. Final online application deadline is February 1 for priority role and scholarship consideration!        Your next stage may be in the spotlight of our new theater! Our 76th season will feature Le nozze di Figaro, Candide, and Suor Angelica/Gianni Schicchi. Emerging Artist roles are double cast, and all perform in two full, fully staged productions with a professional orchestra. Studio Artists are featured in children’s opera outreach performances and fully on the main stage. Daily stage skills or movement classes, resident voice instructors, alumni artist master classes, Broadway workshop and Cabaret round out the O IO experience. Complete info at Opera.org/audition.