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Complete Package Performer’s Singer’s Audition Boot Camp 2016 has gathered a team of internationally acclaimed teaching artists in beautiful San Francisco, CA August 15-21 for a special 7 day intensive packed with master classes, workshops, seminars and private sessions designed to help professional, emerging professional and advanced student singers succeed in their upcoming auditions. At the end of the week singers will perform their songs and arias in a concert and audition for a panel of casting professionals who will give feed back. Submissions are due June 1, 2016. Go to www.completepackageperformer.com for more information.

Join an international cast, performing fully staged productions of Don Giovanni, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi in Prague this summer! Apply now for one of the few remaining spots in this summer’s festival. Still casting for Commendatore, chorus and covers for all major roles in Don Giovanni, directed by Sherrill Milnes, and performed fully staged w/orchestra at the Estates Theatre, where Mozart conducted the premier in 1787. Casting limited roles in Suor Angelica, including Badessa and Osmina and in Gianni Schicchi, including Nella, Betto and Marco. Suor Angelica/Gianni Schicchi are fully staged with orchestra in St. Simon & Jude Church. Please email John Nardolillo at director.prague@classicalmovements.com to see if applications are still be accepted for your voice type or instrument. Please email John Nardolillo at director.prague@classicalmovements.com to see if applications are still be accepted for your voice type or instrument. For more information, please go to our web site: www.praguesummernights.com

Hey don’t just gather dust in a YAP chorus this Summer! Come join Opera Experience Southeast June 7th - 27th 2016, to sing a leading role in our fully staged public production of Madama Butterfly. Add another star to the crown of your performing credits and make valuable connections. Find out how the German house system really works and revamp your audition repertoire for success in Europe! Our 2016 Summer Program will be hosted in Rock Hill, SC from June 7 - June 27, 2016. We will choose approximately 14 singers to participate in an intensive 3-week performance and professional development program. Rehearsals will be interspersed with individual coaching sessions, master classes and career development/mentoring with OES Company and Guest Experts: Thor Eckert, professional Development Coach at AVA, Kathryn Wright, International Vocal Coach and Prompter, Lawrence Bakst, International tenor and John Fowler, International Tenor. Our mainstage production will be Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Performances will be held at Sun City Carolina Lakes Ballroom Theater, Fort Mill, SC, June 25th and June 26th, 2016. APPLICATION DEADLINE May 5th!

Last days to apply to the Institute of Women Conductors! Women conductors from around the world are invited to apply to the second residency of the Linda and Mitch Hart Institute of Women Conductors (IWC) at The Dallas Opera, a unique program designed to further the careers of distinctively talented female conductors. Accomplished female singers, opera coaches, composers, accompanists and instrumentalists with established careers looking to move into conducting are also encouraged to apply. While successful applicants will generally be 40 and under years old, there is no strict age cutoff. Hands-on conducting opportunities with the full Dallas Opera Orchestra; master classes with TDO's Principal Guest Conductor, Nicole Paiement and Italian maestro Carlo Montanaro. The deadline to apply is April 22, 2016.

Music Academy International, presenting Carmen, Die Fledermaus, Poppea, Cosi is accepting video auditions through April 30. Set in the heart of the Italian Dolomites, MAI provides Operas With Orchestra, Master Classes, Language Classes, Vocal Coaching, Acting, Artist Management & Audition Workshops. World-class faculty includes: Christopher Larkin-Houston Grand Opera; David Gately-Seattle Opera; Greg Eldridge-Royal Opera House; Tim Ribchester-Academy Vocal Arts; Paul Plummer-Oper Innsbruck; Lachlan Glen-Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Peter Nilsson-Dutch National Opera Academy; Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet-Opéra National de Paris; and Mitchell Piper-Piper Anselmi Artists Management. Tuition & Housing only $3,995. Apply at www.MusicAcademyInternational.org

**IMMEDIATE VACANCIES** ONE Vacancy each for Angelina (La Cenerentola) - June 24-July 22, 2016 and Monostatos and Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) - Aug. 7-Sept. 1, 2016 Application Deadline: April 26, 2016 LYRIC OPERA STUDIO WEIMAR is a comprehensive opera training program designed for emerging professional singers considering a career in Europe, with a focus on the German theater system. We offer intense training in singing, movement, rehearsal process and role study, master classes, individual lessons, stagecraft instruction, and daily German language and diction coaching. Students perform a role in a fully-staged opera, receive sessions in audition techniques and career management and can audition for German state and private agents. Scholarships available; apply online: www.lyricoperastudioweimar.com.

Study and Perform in Paradise! Le nozze di Figaro - L'enfant et les sortileges - A Little Night Music: Hawaii Performing Arts Festival has roles available for young, talented singers for its 2016 season. For details please contact Director of Admissions, Danielle Davis at ddavis@hawaiiperformingartsfestival.org. Visit us at: www.hawaiiperformingartsfestival.org

Boston University Opera Institute auditions for lyric tenors and baritones to take place on May 9, 2016. The Opera Institute is an intensive, highly selective two-year performance-based training program for emerging operatic artists. Up to 12 individuals are accepted into the program each year through a process of national audition and recruitment. Each Institute member receives full tuition and stipend. The Institute also serves as the Center of Opera Training for Vocal Performance degree candidates, where students share training and casting opportunities. Apply by May 4!

Puccini La Rondine with OperaCoast! Intensive weekend opera course for upcoming singers. Explore, stage and perform one opera in one weekend at a coastal resort in the South East of England. Puccini LA RONDINE (in English), 22-24 July, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK. Solo auditions - 28 May, London We will accept video recordings for auditioning from overseas singers. Course fees (non-residential): £175, students - £125, payable by application. Stage director - Christopher Cowell; Music director - Gregory Rose; Piano - Nigel Foster. * Deadlines: solo application - 20 May; chorus only applications - 15 July. For more details and to apply visit OperaCoast website: www.operacoast.co.uk/summer-course/ Email: info@operacoast.co.uk

Following the great success from the previous years, OCAVA announces the OCAVA-in-Rome 2016 Summer Program for singers in Rome, Italy. The carefully chosen young vocal artists from the United States and abroad will come to Rome to work closely with an internationally renowned faculty on this intensive three-week program that combines daily voice lessons, master classes, lectures/workshops, group discussions, public concerts, and Italian language study. This three-week program is open to high school and college students/graduates, and accomplished amateurs who want to develop performance skills, expand repertoire, improve vocal technique, and actively participate in music making and performances in a highly professional atmosphere. The deadline to apply is April 15! Apply now.