MA Opera Performance

Course Overview

Opera - L'Etoile

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.