Central City Opera

Join the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program!

A national model for the professional development of emerging artists, the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program is an integral part of Central City Opera’s annual Summer Opera Festival held in Central City, Colorado. The 2026 BSFATP will take place across ten weeks from Tuesday, May 26, 2026 through Sunday, August 2, 2026.

Created by Artistic Director Emeritus John Moriarty in 1978, the rigorous 10-week program integrates daily opera training in diction, movement, stage combat, acting, stage technique, individual coaching and role study; sessions in career management; rehearsals and performance opportunities in the summer’s main stage and additional festival productions. The program has provided valuable voice training for many of America’s most notable opera professionals.

There are many places to learn how to sing; there are few places to learn how to be performing artists. The difference is subtle, but it is a difference on which Central City Opera has built an effective and successful training program perennially sought after by gifted young American singers.

For questions about Central City Opera, reach out to auditions@centralcityopera.org, or Meg Ozaki Graves, Sr. Dir. of Artistic Planning and Partnerships mozakigraves@centralcityopera.org

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