This intensive summer training course is aimed to improve the vocal technique of participants and provide them with highly professional advice in interpreting Mozart's opera pieces.
The main goal is to help opera singers with studying and recording the main arias, duets, and scenes of one or several operas selected from the masterclass repertoire list (see the masterclass repertoire below).
The course is intended for professional opera singers, students of musical colleges and academies, as well as for high-level non-professional singers wishing to strengthen their skills in the opera repertoire.
Participants will work with leading opera singer Ingrid Habermann (Austria), conductor Maestro Martin Sieghart (Austria), the pianist and operatic coach of the National Theater Brno - Kostiantin Tyshko (the Czech Republic / Ukraine).
The course offers individual interpretation lessons, rehearsals with the orchestra as well as interactive talks on choosing repertoires, conductor-singer communication and common singers' mistakes at auditions. Participants are welcome to attend all the lessons and rehearsals. All the participants will have recorded selected pieces for your portfolio in rehearsals with the orchestra.
The best singers will have the opportunity to demonstrate their enhanced skills at the final Opera Gala concert with the orchestra of the North Bohemian Theatre.
Voice and interpretation lessons will be focused on enhancing voice stability in higher registers, vibrato, quality legato, and correct breathing to optimize the resonance. Special attention will be paid to controlling muscular activity in a balanced breathing process. Tutors will work on improving singer's pronunciation, expression of music phrases, appropriate style interpretation and expressive artistic gestures.
A complete analysis of works and comprehensive approach to your singing act will guarantee a successful path to singer's auditions and future performances!
Tutors answer the main question HOW to achieve the best result!
All orchestra rehearsals and concerts will be video recorded and participants will receive edited videos via online transfer two weeks after the masterclass ends. Unedited videos will be available immediately and can be copied onto your USB memory stick or the memory card.
A certificate of participation will be issued to all participants who have completed this master class.
We welcome applicants aged 18 or over. Selected singers from the Online audition will be invited to take join us as Active participants.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni & Così fan tutte - arias, recitatives and ensembles.
-Nozze di Figaro
Duetto Figaro-Susanna „- 'Cinque… dieci…“
Scena 5. Cherubino Recitativo e Aria „Non so..“
Cherubino "Voi che sapete"
Nr. 7: Terzetto Conte, Susanna, Cherubino
2.Act: Aria Contessa: „Porgi amor“
Finale.
-Don Giovanni
Leporello, Commendatore Scene
Recitativo e Duetto Zerlina „Laci..“
Nr 9: Quartetto
Nr. 23 Recitativo e Rondo di Donna Anna - „Crudele...“
-Cosi fan Tutte
Nr. 4 Duetto „Ah, guardi..“
Act I - Recitativo. andate là, Che siete
Act 2 - Duetto con coro „Secondate, aurette amiche..."
Please, select and prepare 3 pieces from the mandatory repertoire above, other pieces from the mentioned operas are also welcome.
The entire course will take place at the North Bohemian Theatre in Ústí nad Labem.
Address: Lidické náměstí 10, Ústí nad Labem, 400 01, Czech Republic
Travel and accommodation costs are not included in the masterclass fee, must be covered by each participant.
Ústí nad Labem is the town between Prague and Dresden. Travel from both destinations by a train or a bus will take you about one hour.
The Final concert takes place at the North Bohemian Theater on August 23 at 19.00.
The course will be taught in English. Our tutors will provide additional explanations in German, French, Italian, Czech and Russian.
Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the participants.
Feel free to stay in any hotel in Ústí nad Labem
Please, email the masterclass manager with any questions.
Please, email the masterclass manager:
conductingmasterclasses.eu@gmail.com
Phone number: +420 608 917 903
There is no registration or application fee.
Active participant fee is 1300 USD (1150 EUR).
Daily visitor's fee is 40 EUR per day.
Payment schedule:
- 30 % of the participant fee has to be paid as a deposit via bank transfer upon the confirmation of your participation. Participants cover all the associated banking transfer costs.
- the rest of the fee has to be paid via bank transfer one month before the master class at the latest.
The deposit is 100% refundable in case of cancellation of the masterclass by the organizer.
Please contact the masterclass manager for any additional information.
conductingmasterclasses.eu@gmail.com
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