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Launch your career in paradise with PALM BEACH OPERA. The application deadline for our 2021 Benenson Young Artist and Bailey Apprentice Artist Programs is MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. These 6-month professional residencies offer transformative performing opportunities and intensive training with an outstanding faculty. All artists benefit from regular work with guest coaches Craig Rutenberg and Danielle Orlando; voice teachers Stephen King and Michael Paul; and resident coaches Ben Malensek, Greg Ritchey, Tim Cheung, and Ksenia Leletkina. Benenson Young Artists sing supporting roles and cover lead roles alongside international casts, while Bailey Apprentice Artists cover supporting roles and perform throughout our beautiful community in concerts.
Film and stage actor Dietlinde Turban Maazel, soprano Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs, and Mo. Michael Recchiuti offer an intensive curriculum that focuses on the performance of operatic music: languages, study techniques, interpretation, body movement, and wellness. Each session includes an HD live video recording by Jeremy Gerard, and guest masterclasses. NO AGE LIMIT. APPLICATION DEADLINE Sept 4th. FIRST FALL SESSION: October 7 TO October 13, 2019: “German Repertoire Immersion: The Operas of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss”. Lieder Repertoire also accepted. SECOND FALL SESSION: October 16 TO October 22, 2019: " Performing Italian Opera: Tradition and Practice”. Application and information: www.castletonfestival.org/lmci
Make the most of your autumn season in New York City with Canto Vocal Programs! Our two-week intensive program consists of individual musical & dramatic coachings, master classes, a business of music lecture and an aria showcase for the public. We are happy to have Sarah Fraser (Fletcher Artist Management), Shawn Jeffery (ADA Artists Management) and Guy Barzilay (Guy Barzilay Artists) join us for feedback auditions. They will evaluate your performance, overall presentation, materials and repertoire. Canto offers programs in New York, Toulouse, Zagreb, Bucharest and Louisville. Our faculty includes present and former Metropolitan Opera coaches and international stage directors. Principal faculty: Lucy Arner, Liora Maurer, & Sharon Mohar.
NO FEE. DEADLINE EXTENDED to September 3. Sarasota Opera announces September 2019 auditions for its Apprentice Artists Program January 4 - March 22, 2020. Opportunity listing and application are now available on YAP Tracker. September auditions take place in New York and Sarasota. Mainstage operas are Puccini’s La bohème, Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet, Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, and Catalani’s La Wally (all in original languages). Victor DeRenzi is artistic director/principal conductor; Jesse Martins is chorus master/program and music director of the Apprentice Artists. These are paid positions. Housing and transportation provided.
MISSISSIPPI OPERA PRESENTS: THE JOHN ALEXANDER NATIONAL VOCAL COMPETITION AND CONCERT. The sixth annual John Alexander National Vocal Competition for opera and musical theatre singers will be held on Saturday, September 28, 2019, at Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi. This competition is presented by the Mississippi Opera in order to identify and recognize outstanding vocal opera and musical theatre talent from all over the United States. The competition is a national level competition for opera and music theatre singers between the ages of 18 to 40. The six final winners of the competition will be presented in concert with chamber orchestra on Monday, October 21, 2019. For more information on Mississippi Opera go to www.msopera.org.
We are excited to announce this unique opportunity for Opera Singers in NYC. Opera singer Mrs. Claudia Toti Lombardozzi is back to the city for a two-weekend workshop. The workshop will be held at "Yeoryia Studio" 2067 Broadway NY from 2pm to 6pm. Learn to work and perform from what is uniquely yours - your own artistry. Learn how to inspire yourself and eliminate self-sabotage, stage-fright, to reduce nerves and to build self-consciousness. Unlock your artistic energy and potential. For info and tuition please email info@workshopsnyc.net
The Sullivan Foundation seeks exceptionally talented young opera singers who are still taking early steps but show promise for significant careers. Winners receive initial prizes and then are eligible for additional role preparation grants in future years, a unique feature of the Foundation's support. 2019 auditions will be held in New York on November 10 and 11. Applications to audition are due September 10.
Did you know that YAP Tracker offers incentives for referring your friends officially through the system? Many members earn significant discounts on their renewals while also giving new members a discount on their first year of membership with us. Word of mouth from our subscribers has always been our best advertisement, so you’ll be helping us out, too. For each person you invite through the system who signs up, we will provide a $5 discount when you renew your YAP Tracker account. The new member signing up will also receive $5 off the first year subscription. To invite a singer or accompanist, click here (https://www.yaptracker.com/tools/packages/user/refer); the link will also allow you to refer multiple new members at the same time.
Submit your OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS Gerdine Young Artist audition application by Monday, August 12th! NO FEE TO APPLY! The GYA program seeks to offer emerging young singers invaluable professional experience. In addition to choral responsibilities in the season, GYAs also sing supporting roles and/or cover leading and featured roles in mainstage productions.
PARTNERS for the Arts 7th Annual Vocal Awards Competition: Application DEADLINE – September 6, 2019. Emerging Artist Awards – ages 25 to 35. 1st Prize: $8,000, 2nd Prize: $4,000, Honorable Mention: $2,000, other finalists: $300. The Competition will take place on October 12 and 13, 2019 in Alexandria, VA, just minutes away from mid-town Washington, D.C. http://partners4thearts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Application-2019.pdf