MA Opera Performance
Course Overview
Two Year Programme
(Subject to Validation)
This new MA course will allow you to focus upon Opera
Performance, providing opportunities to receive specialist training
in opera skills, movement, acting, stagecraft, European languages
and ensemble skills as part of a dedicated MA programme.
The course is aimed at developing the full range of skills you
will need to succeed at the highest levels of professional opera,
culminating in the College’s main-stage opera and opera scenes
productions.
You will participate in a series of intensive training periods
during which you will work on pre-studied roles with professional
repetiteurs and directors. Following each of these sessions, you
will perform excerpts from your chosen repertoire in public
workshop presentations.
The College has a very active and productive collaborative
relationship with the Welsh National Opera (WNO), which provides
opportunities to attend dress rehearsals and also, where
appropriate, other types of rehearsal during the production
process. Students will work with members of the RWCMD vocal staff,
many of whom have worked with WNO, and there may also be
opportunities to work with WNO music staff and directors.
Several graduates of RWCMD have gone on to have successful
careers in opera, both at home and abroad including Glyndebourne,
Garsington, Grange Park Opera, Clonter Opera, Opera in Northern
Ireland as well as at Welsh National Opera itself.