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Directed by Laura Brooks Rice, Sewanee Summer Music Festival's 4-week OperaFest offers private coaching, masterclasses, various performance opportunities, and workshops exploring professional learning. Our programs focus on our three artistic pillars: creation, collaboration, and mentorship. Each session provides training on operatic style, diction and language, dramatic presentation, performance technique, and professional skills training portfolio artists. OperaFest participants will have a range of performance and coaching opportunities, including weekly public master classes, aria showcases, a scenes program, chamber performances, and collaborative performances with SSMF student composers. Scholarships available.

"Of the few American programs designed for training talented singers in earlier years of their studies than most summer festivals do, CSNY is THE premiere program among them. The experience is superb, singular, and offers hands on training with faculty most could not otherwise approach until years later. Supportive, safe, excellent, and fun! There is nothing else remotely like it..." Margo Garrett, Faculty Emerita - The Juilliard School, U. of Minnesota, Tanglewood Institute. CSNY in June 2022 Session: June 4-21, 2022. Held at Manhattan School of Music. 18 days intensive study for singers; masterclasses ~ voice lessons ~ coachings; French, German, Italian & English diction and repertoire. Applications due March 1, 2022 - www.classicalsingingny.org

If chamber music and art song are your passions, Orvieto Musica IS you! Art of Song is an intensive three-week program for talented undergraduate and graduate singers and pianists interested in increasing collaborative, artistic, and technical skills through art song duet, trio and quartet repertoire, and vocal chamber music with Orvieto Musica instrumentalists. In addition, they will coach and perform Italian and American art songs. Participants will emerge from this program with increased knowledge of chamber repertoire for recital programming, confidence in musical leadership and collaborative mentorship, and professional versatility. Apply today!

For the past 38 seasons, the Cooper-Bing Competition has been an internationally-recognized vocal competition that empowers and celebrates young, emerging artists. This competition discovers talent, reveals artistic opportunity, and engages the next generation into the professional opera community. Apply today to compete for a top prize of $10,000! Deadline is February 1, 2022. Competition is Sunday, May 15, 2022 in Columbus, Ohio. You don’t want to miss this battle of the voices! 

Pacific Opera Project (POP) announces auditions for all roles in Into the Woods and I Can't Breathe, as well as chorus for Iolanta. Submission Deadline Extended to Feb 1. Into the Woods: A massive outdoor production at one of LA’s iconic outdoor spaces, Descanso Gardens, July 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 2022. Rehearsals will begin around June 15. All roles are open. I Can't Breathe: West Coast Premiere of a new opera by Brandon J. Gibson and Leslie Burrs at The El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, CA May 13, 14, 15. Rehearsals will begin around May 1. All roles are open. Iolanta: Paid and volunteer chorus positions available for all voice types. Performances March 20, 26, and 27 at the Aratani Theatre in Little Tokyo. Rehearsals begin March 3. Limited chorus rehearsals until tech week. Full details at pacificoperaproject.com/auditions

The Academy of Vocal Arts is dedicated to training young artists with tremendous potential as international opera stars. Resident Artists come from around the world, and are prepared through rigorous vocal instruction, coaching and performance training. AVA is also the world's only tution-free institution dedicated solely to the study of voice. Applications are now open and will be accepted through March 1, 2022. For more information on the audition process, please visit the AVA website here: https://avaopera.org/admissions/application-requirements/ There is still time to apply to AVA! Visit ACCEPTD to apply today: https://app.getacceptd.com/vocalarts

For over forty seasons, The Ohio Light Opera has dedicated itself to the exploration and production of the best of traditional operetta and musical theater. For our 2022 festival season we are excited to return to a season that looks very much like our traditional one, only a bit shorter.  We will be presenting six full productions - five on the mainstage and the sixth in an outdoor venue. The 40 performing artists who make up the vocal ensemble are chosen for their abilities to perform and work at the highest level in all disciplines demanded by the company’s specialized repertoire. Online audition application deadline extended to January 28th, 2022.

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.  2022 Productions: Carmen | Bizet; A Midsummer Night's Dream | Britten; The Magic Flute | Mozart; L’Orfeo | Monteverdi. Auditions live and by recording: deadline January 15, 2022.

PARTNERS for the Arts 9th National Opera Awards Competition - VIRTUAL. Open to singers ages 25 to 35.  Classical singers specializing in opera, under management or not, are invited to enter the Competition.   DEADLINE - February 28! 1st Prize: $8,000; 2nd Prize: $4,000; 3rd Prize: $2,000; Judge Special Award 1,000; Audience Choice Award $500; other finalists $350. PARTNERS uses Acceptd's platform for the applications.   Fee $30 paid to Acceptd.  Applicants can apply for a waiver to this application fee by submitting financial documentation to Acceptd.   http://partners4thearts.org - https://app.getacceptd.com/partnersforthearts

Classic Lyric Arts offers three immersive summer training programs for classical singers and collaborative 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 6-23: Périgord, France. Discover the beauty and nuance of French opera and mélodie in southern France. CLA Berkshires: June 27-July 11: Great Barrington, Massachusetts (US). Explore the brilliance of Mozart's Italian operatic masterpieces surrounded by the majestic Berkshire mountains. CLA Italy: July 25-August 12: Novafeltria, Italy. Master the traditions and techniques of bel canto singing through the music of the Italian language and the culture of Italy. Apply by January 15, 2022.