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The Miami Music Festival Application Deadline is Wednesday, 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.  2025 Productions: The Marriage of Figaro | W.A Mozart; Rusalka | Antonín Dvorák; The Ghosts of Versailles | John Corigliano.

Apply Today for the 2025 Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition The Jensen Foundation supports America’s most promising young opera professionals with its annual Vocal Competition, and 2025 is our 25th anniversary. As always, singers compete for their share of $40,000 in awards, including a $15,000 First Place award. In addition, 2025 Jensen finalists compete for the 25th anniversary award, dubbed the Facing Forward Prize – to be awarded for the finest performance of an aria composed in the 21st century. The 2025 competition takes place in New York City May 12-17. The singing environment is well-organized and supportive, with professional accompanists and judges. Apply today to join us in New York this May!

Resilient Singer is a very different summer program. What we do: we empower singers in building sustainable resilience for voice, body, mind, and spirit by weaving together well-documented, powerful, holistic approaches in a nurturing environment. Why we do it: so you THRIVE! Tuition includes daily lessons and coachings, our signature holistic resilience course, masterclasses, room and board, and all meals. Scholarships available.

Step into a world where passion meets preparation, and emerging talent blossoms into operatic excellence. For over a decade Mediterranean Opera Studio & Festival has been the crucible where the next generation of opera professionals is forged.  6 weeks of intense, individualized training with the best renown professionals in the World.  3 beautiful fully staged operas.  Experience “orchestra time” where you get individualized coaching with orchestra to discover the nuances of performing with orchestra.  Build connections with invited industry leaders and lasting friendships with your peers in the unique Mediterranean setting of ancient Sicily.  Apply now at mediterraneanoperafestival.com

Deadline: Friday, January 24! The 2025 Festival Season includes productions of Die Fledermaus (Strauss II), This House (World Premiere by Ricky Ian Gordon), Don Pasquale (Donizetti), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten), and Center Stage Concert. All mainstage festival season opera productions are performed in English. Program Dates: April 28, 2025 - June 29, 2025. Program Information: Opera Theatre of Saint Louis offers emerging young stage directors invaluable production experience as they begin their directing careers or as they transition into opera. Opera Theatre is committed to supporting and nurturing the careers of young artists.

THREE DAYS TO APPLY! Classic Lyric Arts offers three immersive summer training programs for classical singers and pianists. We instruct, mentor, and support an emerging generation of artists to discover the essence of opera and song through the prism of language, history, and culture. CLA France: June 2-20: Périgord, France. Discover the beauty and nuance of French opera and mélodie in southern France. CLA Berkshires: June 29-July 13: Great Barrington, Massachusetts (US). Explore the brilliance of Mozart's operatic masterpieces surrounded by the majestic Berkshire mountains. CLA Italy: July 29-August 17: Novafeltria, Italy. Master the traditions and techniques of bel canto singing through the music of the Italian language and the culture of Italy.

Your Success starts with our Summer Program. Gain the skills you need for your future. Gain the skills to thrive in your career. International Lyric Academy in Italy is now casting all roles, featuring fully staged Operas Falstaff by G. Verdi, Little Women by M. Adamo, Die Fledermaus by J. Strauss, and Broadway show Into The Woods, in addition to Opera scenes, Concerts, Handel Marathon, Verdi Requiem, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Mozart Exsultate Jubilate and choral-orchestral performances.  Participants receive professional coaching, voice lessons, masterclasses, Italian classes, and Agents & Artistic Directors Audition. Make a direct jump from being a full-time student to launching a full-time professional career. Apply today.

By studying at the Academy of Opera, you will be able to realize your potential and develop a strong platform for becoming a professional opera singer or opera director. If you have any questions, please contact us at: annaeina@khio.no The Academy of Opera is part of the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). It is  situated in a 19th century converted sail factory in the heart of Oslo. While being a student at the Opera Academy, you will have unlimited access to its outstanding facilities and resources, which include: • 8 stages • 1 main stage with an orchestra pit • 12 practice rooms with pianos, available 7 days a week As an opera director student you will have the opportunity to study 6 month with Stefan Herheim at Theater an der Wien.

Deadlines are coming soon for live auditions across the country. Final online application deadline is January 31 for priority consideration and scholarship. Be part of the company in the spotlight of our new theater! Our 75th season will feature Carmen, The Merry Widow, Into the Woods and a gala inaugural concert featuring famous alumni. 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 OIO experience. Complete info at Opera.org.  

Casting has begun for Opera Lucca's production of Le nozze di Figaro! Apply now to study Italian opera and language in Puccini's hometown. Opera Lucca is a summer festival for singers, pianists, and composers. It will be held at the Lucca Italian School in the summer of 2025, June 7th - July 6th. This season we are casting roles in Le nozze di Figaro as well as in scenes from Suor Angelica, Così fan tutte, La bohème, and other bel canto, baroque, and dramatic repertoire. We specialize in teaching Italian opera and art song through a focus on the poetic language. Our distinguished faculty include native Italian speakers and experts in operatic Italian from Italy and the US. Join us for an unforgettable summer! Follow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/operalucca/?hl=en