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Last Chance to apply for the Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist Program 2018-2019 Season Auditions! Application Deadline is this Friday, October 13!! Hailed as one of the country's leading training programs for young singers! While providing guidance from the opera industry’s leaders and innovators, the program guides singers through the development of their vocal skills, improvement of their stage presence and expansion of their repertoire. Resident Artist opportunities may include principal and/or comprimario roles in mainstage and Resident Artist productions, Art Song recitals, individual coaching, master classes and more! Resident Artists receive a weekly stipend, assistance with relocation expenses and voice lessons, and AGMA rates for mainstage roles. Application: http://www.yaptracker.com/applications/pittsburgh-opera-2017. Additional Information: http://www.pittsburghopera.org/resident-artists/auditions.

Oct. 6 deadline approaching! Teatro Nuovo, the new and expanded home of the Bel Canto at Caramoor program, is offering Resident Artists major mainstage roles along with a uniquely intensive training program. Ten roles are available in Tancredi and Medea in Corinto, alongside guest soloists Jennifer Rowley, Georgia Jarman, Tamara Mumford, and Santiago Ballerini. In addition, a full second cast of Tancredi will sing a performance (with orchestra) showcasing nine alternate pieces Rossini wrote after the premiere. Also: cover assignments, concerts, recitals, management auditions; stipend, housing, meals; total-immersion Bel Canto training with top specialists. 6/25-8/5; full information at TeatroNuovo.org. Apprentice applications due Dec 1.

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Applications will now be accepted through Tuesday, October 3rd. Compete for cash prizes and solo roles in one of the nation's finest voice competitions. Past winners have gone on to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and more! Winners are awarded a cash prize. In addition, winners are offered an optional contract to sing an appropriate solo role and half recital during Pittsburgh Festival Opera's summer season. Pittsburgh Festival Opera is especially interested in those possessing voices suitable for Wagner. 2018 Season: La bohème | Puccini; One Touch of Venus | Weill; Rhinegold | Wagner; Arabella | R. Strauss.

OPERASTUDIO MASTERCLASSES 17/18 – UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ DE HENARES – MADRID - SPAIN ANTHONY MADIGAN - Acting for opera singers 23 to 26 October 2017 GIANLUIGI GELMETTI-Multidisciplinary encounter–masterclasses 20 to 24 November 2017 AQUILES MACHADO – Eros and Tanatos, from the poetry to the serenade, an approach to the Mediterranean and Latin American song 29 January to 2 February 2018. PAUL ÈMILE FOURNY- Stage Performance Workshop about French Operas 5 to 9 March. MARIELLA DEVIA - Technique and vocal performance 4 to 8 April. .ANA LUISA CHOVA–Vocal technique 25 to 28 June. IGNACIO COBETA– Vocal Pathophysiology 25, 26 and 27 June. XAVIER SABATA - II Baroque Opera Workshop 16 to 25 July . LOURDES PÉREZ – SIERRA, Operastudio Director, Career Coaching. (January & July)

DEADLINE EXTENDED for Opera Saratoga 2018 Young Artist Program featuring role opportunities in 4 operas. Opera Saratoga has extended the deadline for applications to its 2018 Young Artist Program until Friday September 15th. Auditions take place in Houston, Cincinnati, Phoenix and New York City. The 2018 Summer Festival includes 4 operas: THE MERRY WIDOW (Lehár/Leon&Stein); THE CONSUL (Menotti); ROCKING HORSE WINNER (Williams/Chatterton); and VINKENSPORT, or THE FINCH OPERA (Little/Vavrek). Significant role opportunities for young artists, including sining and covering principal and supporting roles in all productions, as well as concert performances, master classes and professional development opportunities. Apply now!

Beat the winter blues with a career-defining musical experience! OperaWorks’ WINTER INTENSIVE PROGRAM will get your year started on the right foot with a professional edge that will make 2018 your most successful year yet. Reinvigorate your repertoire, challenge yourself musically and dramatically, and develop every element of your professional identity under the guidance of our world-class faculty in our renowned, nurturing environment, culminating with performances of a new work you'll create with your peers and the OperaWorks creative team. Participants range in age and experience from students to professionals, and you will be challenged based on your own career path. Be the well-rounded artist you want to be and have the experience of a lifetime in the process. operaworks.org

NO APPLICATION FEE: Sarasota Opera Apprentice Artists Auditions DEADLINE EXTENDED through September 8. Sarasota Opera in Florida is accepting applications for its 2018 Apprentice Artists Program (January 8, 2018 through March 25, 2018) for September auditions in Sarasota and New York. The company will perform three works it has never produced before: “Manon Lescaut” (Puccini), “Norma” (Bellini), and “Tiefland” (d’Albert), as well as “Carmen” (Bizet). Apprentices sing chorus and take part in concerts, classes, and coachings and some cover roles. These are paid positions with shared housing in new company facility and airfare provided. See the opportunities page on YAP Tracker for details.

The Chautauqua Opera Company is now accepting applications for its 2018 Young Artist Program. 2018 mainstage repertoire will include Mozart's Don Giovanni directed by Ned Canty, Bernstein's Candide directed by Jay Lesenger, and As One by Laura Kaminsky, Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed, directed by Matt Gray. Chautauqua Opera Young Artists sing and/or cover leading and supporting roles in mainstage productions alongside leading professionals in the field, and are featured in over 30 unique events each season, including concerts with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, recitals, outreach events, and more! Learn more at opera.chq.org. Apply by September 7 for auditions in New Orleans and NYC.

Submit your OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS Gerdine Young Artist audition application by Friday, August 18th! NO FEE TO APPLY! The GYA program seeks to offer emerging young singers invaluable professional experience. In addition to choral responsibilities in the season, GYAs also sing supporting roles and/or cover leading and featured roles in mainstage productions.

Opera Legend Lucine Amara Invites Vocalists Worldwide to Apply Now to the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera's 29th Annual International Vocal Competition. Early bird deadline: July 31, 2017. Application deadline: October 31, 2017. No Age Limit. A Free master class is offered to all applicants accepted to the preliminary auditions. Three four-hour Free master classes are available to finalists. Feedback and extensive free coaching on language, style and presentation is also provided. Finalists are offered performing opportunities in Verismo Opera's fully staged productions with a live orchestra. All auditions take place in New York City. Upon request, the judges' comments are sent to all preliminary participants and finalists.