Two years full-time commencing in September.
This programme provides extensive training relevant to the
requirements and demands of professional opera companies,
addressing important employability issues that will become
increasingly significant in the coming decade.
Key Features
- One-to-one singing lessons and repertoire coaching
- Individual tuition with eminent professional singers and
leading coaches
- Specialist tuition in Italian, French and German
- Fully integrated classes in stagecraft including movement and
dance
- Tuition in dramatic and interpretative skills
- Classes focusing on professional etiquette and opera protocol,
developing an awareness of collaborative working practices
- Professional operatic working practices with professional
directors and repetiteurs
- Public performance in a fully staged opera
- Opera scenes presentations including baroque and contemporary
works as well as standard repertoire
- Opportunities to observe and shadow Welsh National Opera (WNO)
concert party events, WNO Max projects and selected studio
rehearsals
- WNO chorus mentors by request
- Intensive training in audition technique
- Detailed study and preparation of a complete operatic role for
presentation at a professionally equivalent audition and working
session. This usually assessed by a Head of Music from one of the
main UK opera companies
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Validated by the University of South Wales