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APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR ALL COURSES : DECEMBER 10, 2023
Welcome to the landing page for the Georg Solti Accademia! Please use the dropdown box on the left to submit an application for the Accademia.
The Georg Solti Accademia is a training programme based in Italy dedicated to giving early-career opera singers and repetiteurs the mentorship and training they need through short-term, intense courses led by outstanding opera conductors, coaches, singers, and directors of our time. For more information on the Accademia, its alumni, and its faculty, visit the website: www.georgsoltiaccademia.org
Each year the Accademia take applications for two distinct programmes - the Bel Canto Course for Singers (Tuscany, Italy) and the Solti-Peretti Repetiteur Course (Venice, Italy). Read below for more information about each course.
**NOTE** - If you are unable to afford the application fee, you may request a fee-waiver by writing to Roberta Biondi (registrar) at rbiondi@gsaccademia.org
Every student offered a place on one of the Accademia's courses receive full scholarships covering their tuition, accommodation, and meal expenses for the duration of the course.
Bel Canto Course for Singers : Opera Singers interested in honing their skills in the Italian opera repertoire with some of the world's leading opera singers, coaches, and conductors are invited to apply to the 2024 Bel Canto Course for Singers.
Course Dates: June 20 to July 14, 2024
Faculty for the 2024 Bel Canto Course include: Jonathan Papp (Artistic Director, GSA), Carlo Rizzi, Richard Bonynge, Barbara Frittoli, Freddie De Tommaso, Aigul Akhmetshina, Jonathan Lakeland (Associate Director, GSA), and Stefano Baldasseroni, among others.
Click here for more information about the 2024 Bel Canto Course
To apply, please complete the application form below. You must include video recordings of you singing two arias from the Italian opera repertoire. The repertoire you submit must be sung in Italian, by an Italian composer, and be written after 1810 (ie. Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Puccini, Verdi, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, etc). You may opt to submit an aria and an Italian song, if you'd like, so long as the song meets the same composer/language requirements (ie. Tosti, Respighi, etc). **Pieces by Mozart and Handel are NOT acceptable repertoire for this application.**
You will also be asked to provide contact information for two industry professionals (ie. voice teachers, coaches, conductors, YAP administrators, agents/managers, artistic directors/intendants, etc) who can speak to your professionalism, musical ability, and character. They will be asked to complete a brief recommendation survey on your behalf.
Selected applicants will be offered a live audition in London, England in the last week of January, 2024. Any invited applicant that is unable to travel to London in this time will be offered an opportunity to complete the second round audition online.
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Solti-Peretti Repetiteur Course: Pianists who are interested in developing their skills as opera répétiteurs/coaches are invited to apply for our 2024 Solti-Peretti Répétiteur Course, which takes place at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy.
Course Dates: March 27 to April 6, 2024
Faculty for the 2024 Repetiteur Course include: Jonathan Papp (GSA Artistic Director), Richard Bonynge, James Vaughan (Teatro alla Scala), Anthony Legge (Royal Opera House, ENO, Opera Australia), & Rodrigo de Vera (Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona)
To apply, please complete the corresponding application form. With your application you must include two videos of you playing and singing two contrasting operatic excerpts of no more than 10 minutes in total.
Note: Both excerpts must include three or more characters (For example: Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro, Act II Finale; or Puccini, La Bohème, Act 1 opening etc.).
You will also be asked to provide contact information for two industry professionals (ie. voice teachers, coaches, conductors, YAP administrators, agents/managers, artistic directors/intendants, etc) who can speak to your professionalism, musical ability, and character. They will be asked to complete a brief recommendation survey on your behalf.
Selected applicants will be offered a live audition for which they should be prepared to sing & play the excerpts they submitted in their pre-screening videos. Additional tasks will be set and sent to chosen applicants ahead of time. Live auditions will be in London, UK in mid/late January, 2024. Any applicants invited to attend a live audition who are unable to do so will be offered the opportunity to audition online.
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