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Music Academy of the West Lehrer Vocal Institute: June 14 - August 10, 2025. Full-scholarship Summer Festival in Santa Barbara, CA. Life-changing opportunity to be immersed in inspiring training and numerous performances with the best-of-the-best in one of the most beautiful cities in the world! FREE tuition, single-room accommodations, & meals. Fully-staged opera: Don Giovanni. Marilyn Horne Song Competition with $5,000 cash prize. Creative Project. Public Masterclasses. Private Lessons. Chamber & Contemporary Music. Opera Scenes. Industry Day. Plus career seminars, wellness program, and community engagement. All just steps from the beach! Enrollment: Up to 27 fellows (8-week residency) + up to 9 studio artists (3-week residency). Application Deadline: October 15
New York Dramatic Voices is excited to announce our 2025 Winter Intensive. Each artist will work with stage director, Laura Alley (SFO, NYCO), music director, Matthew Lobaugh (WNO, LA Opera), music coach, Bob Mollicone (SFO) and masterclass technician, Sarah Fraser (Fletcher Artist Management); culminating in a staged public performance in the heart of Manhattan. This Winter's repertoire will be Act III of Die Walküre, with orchestra at our new home at the Sheen Center. Each artist receives professional video of their performance. Program runs January 3-19. Application deadline is October 1, 2024. Visit http://www.newyorkdramaticvoices.com/auditions for more information.
Apply now to the National Opera Association's Carolyn Bailey Argento Vocal Competition, the finals of which will be held in Savannah, GA, on January 8, 2025. All selected finalists will receive $400 travel stipends to attend the competition! Over $15,000 in cash prizes will be awarded in two divisions: Scholarship (ages 18-24) and Artist (ages 25-40). This year, the Carolyn Bailey Argento Fellowship for Vocal Performance (up to $50,000 per year for graduate study) will also be awarded, providing full tuition plus living expenses for the recipient. Application deadline is October 1. Visit https://www.noa.org/vocal for complete details and to apply!
The application deadline for Chautauqua Opera has been extended to September 15! The company’s 2025 season will feature one production and two workshops of contemporary works in development. Chautauqua Opera provides our Young Artists with performance tools essential to establishing a professional career in opera. It is recognized as one of the best training programs for young singers in America today, and over 1,000 artists have benefited from this professional training experience. We are excited to announce auditions for Puccini’s La bohème, Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Lincoln in the Bardo.
The International Meistersinger Akademie (IMA) offers emerging artists an exceptional environment of excellence in the study of opera and concert repertoire. Our prestigious staff and guest professors bring their expertise to the vocal and interpretive development of the young professional. Central to IMA are the auditions held with approximately 40 agents, promoters, opera directors, casting directors, and festival managers from Europe and the USA. Individual feedback is given to each young artist, thus providing the networking and professional contacts important to the profession. IMA 2025 faculty includes Edith Wiens, KS Brigitte Fassbaender, Pål Moe, Thomas Lausmann, Craig Terry, Peggy Marmuth and Tobias Truniger, among others.
"This is how it should be done!" - George Loomis, Financial Times "Transformative" - Heidi Waleson, Wall Street Journal Teatro Nuovo is an opera company presenting performances in and near New York City, accompanied by an innovative training program designed to provide opportunities and information not generally available elsewhere. Its unusual features include the collaboration of a period-instrument orchestra under the direction of Berlin violinist Jakob Lehmann; in-depth seminars and lessons in historical performance practice and ornamentation by Will Crutchfield; and an intensive Italian-language program directed by Lucy Yates.
Deadline tomorrow, September 12! Chautauqua Opera provides our Young Artists with performance tools essential to establishing a professional career in opera. It is recognized as one of the best training programs for young singers in America today, and over 1,000 artists have benefited from this professional training experience. We are excited to announce auditions for Puccini’s La bohème, Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Lincoln in the Bardo.
Palm Beach Opera has fast become one of the leading training centers for emerging artists. The 15 artists in the Young Artist and Apprentice Artist Programs work with a faculty comprised of the top voice teachers and vocal coaches in the industry, and perform alongside some of the world’s greatest artists in our mainstage productions. Alumni of recent seasons include three Laffont Competition Grand Finals Winners (Duke Kim, Alexandra Razskazoff, and Meridian Prall), and singers who have continued their careers at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, LA Opera, Washington National Opera, Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Oper, and Opera national de Paris. Apply today to launch your career from our tropical paradise!
Opera Naples Resident Artist Program will take place January 12 through March 10, 2025 in beautiful southwest Florida. Artists will be prominently featured in principal and secondary roles in the productions La bohème, Die Zauberflöte, and The Mikado, performed with orchestra conducted by Ramón Tebar. They will also perform as soloists in performances of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra. One-on-one coaching, masterclasses, educational outreach, and community concerts are additional components of the program. The four selected artists receive a stipend and local housing in beautiful Naples, FL.
The JTVA Elizabeth Greenfield Award is a $5,000 grant which honors a trailblazing Black singer by recognizing an outstanding present-day Black singer who is in the early stages of pursuing a professional career. It provides meaningful financial assistance to encourage and further advance the career development of promising Black vocal artist. The application deadline is September 3, 2024.