Handel Opera Academy 2025: final deadline approaching!

Join Handel Opera Academy this year to perform one of the roles in Handel's "Serse"

The final application deadline of March 1st now approaching fast. If you'd like to get a chance of being cast in the production you can still apply.  Go to our website and APPLY NOW!

The Academy will take place in Boleslawiec, Poland between 5 July and 3 August 2025 and will include a wide range of masterclasses and coaching sessions by our experienced and passionate team of professional teachers. This includes classes with Sonia Prina, Roberto Jachini Virgili and Enrique Gomez-Cabrero Fernandez, among others.

The tuition fee includes, among others:

- Singing and performance coaching with some of the best professionals in the field
- Acting and theatrical coaching
- Recitativo, ornamentation and movement coaching
- Italian language coaching with native speakers
- At least one performance in your role in a professional, fully staged baroque opera production with sets, costumes and a baroque orchestra
- Professional audio and video recording of your performance
- Professional pictures and portraits
- Accommodation.

We can provide scholarships to cover part of the tuition fee for a limited number of participants. Thanks to the support of Handel Institute we can offer extra support to British applicants. Please enquire at info@operaacademy.eu for more details.

Here is what participants of previous Academies have said:

"I loved how supportive the staff and cast were. It is by far the best artist program I have attended. Everything was so organized in the schedule and that made a HUGE difference."

"I fully trusted the process. Was very convincing choices and well organised. Very professional conductor and artistic director, they sure knew best what functions better from all aspects."

"I felt so proud of how far I had come as a singer in the past month. I felt like I grew in the art of Baroque opera thanks to the support of the faculty as well as the casemates and the orchestra."

Please visit our website for further details: www.operaacademy.eu.

You can also see how our previous Academies looked like on Youtube:

- the 2023 production of Alcina: https://youtu.be/_gGtZjQgXFM