Chicago Summer Opera 2026: singers, orchestra, and production team members!
We’re thrilled to announce that applications for our 2026 season are now open for singers, orchestra, and production team members! Apply today through YAP Tracker or visit our website for full details.
Key Features
- Performing a Role with Orchestra
- Lessons & Coaching
- Master Classes & Workshops
- Media: Professionally filmed performances and dress rehearsal photo call pictures.
2026 Season
Carmen, Bizet
Marriage of Figaro, Mozart
Cendrillon, Massenet
L'incoronazione di Poppea, Monteverdi
Turn of the Screw, Britten
Rinaldo, Handel
Dates
Session 1: June 16 - July 12, 2026
Session 2: July 14 - August 9, 2026
Tuition
$3,550 per session
Scholarships, financial aid & work-studies available. Over $240,000 in scholarship given in 2025.
Chicago Summer Opera is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing world-class training to gifted artists while offering accessible, high-quality performances to our community. Our program emphasizes role preparation, vocal technique, dramatic preparation, audition technique, and stage movement. Each singer is cast in either a full role or a cover role, with productions staged and performed with orchestra. Cover artists also receive the unique opportunity to present a fully staged cover run with piano. This balanced combination of training and performance allows developing singers to achieve significant artistic growth in a short period of time.
Over the past ten seasons, Chicago Summer Opera has had the privilege of working with an extraordinary roster of internationally recognized artists, teachers, directors, and conductors who have joined our faculty or led guest master classes. These distinguished faculty and master class technicians include Alexandra LoBianco, Allan Glassman, Elizabeth Byrne, Nicole Cabell, Norman Reinhardt, Soula Parassidis, Viktoria Vizin, Jeff Mattsey, John DeMain, Michael Ehrman, Julia Faulkner, Amy Hutchison, Codrut Birsan, Quinn Kelsey, Sunny Joy Langton, Mark Ross Clark, Adriano Spampanato, Cathy Dunn Francesco Milioto, Andreas Mitisek, Steven Mosteller, Andrew Owens, Yasuko Oura, Matthew Ozawa, Philip Pierce, Susanna Phillips, W. Stephen Smith, Michael Sylvester, and Pedro Yanez. Their expertise and mentorship have helped shape Chicago Summer Opera into a program that inspires, challenges, and prepares the next generation of opera singers.
