Two Year Programme
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 include:
- One-to-one singing lessons and repertoire coaching
- Specialist tuition in Italian, French and German
- Fully integrated classes in stagecraft including movement,
dance and stage combat
- Classes focussing 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 with orchestra under
professional production conditions
- Roles in public 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
- Intensive training in audition technique with input from
professional opera companies including WNO
- Detailed study and preparation of a complete operatic role for
presentation at a professionally equivalent audition
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MA in Opera Performance
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