La Musica Lirica
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La Musica Lirica is a five week training program structured for performance artists looking to gain hands-on training and experience, immersed in its environment, as a way to help bridge the gap between college and career. Founded in 1999 by Brygida Bziukiewicz and Kathryn Hartgrove, this music festival
now produces three operas each season with over sixty performers.
The program is geared toward advanced singers that are ready to begin or have already started a professional career as an opera singer. Rehearsals are run on a professional level. Each participant receives up to 20 hours of Italian per week, two half-hour weekly coachings with Rossini Opera Festival
Coaches, two forty-five minute voice lessons per week, two to four recitative classes with maestri and weekly masterclasses with resident faculty. The operas are all double cast. Those participants cast in roles perform two of the four fully stage performances with a professional orchestra.
Recent conductors, stage directors and vocal faculty include Alberto Zedda, Joseph Rescigno
, Robert Ashens, Dejan Miladinovic
, William Shomos, Dwight Coleman, Julia Faulkner, Brian Leeper, Mary Anne Scott, Karen Peeler, John DeHaan, Linda Hurt, and Melody Racine.
Music festival
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...
now produces three operas each season with over sixty performers.
The program is geared toward advanced singers that are ready to begin or have already started a professional career as an opera singer. Rehearsals are run on a professional level. Each participant receives up to 20 hours of Italian per week, two half-hour weekly coachings with Rossini Opera Festival
Rossini Opera Festival
The Rossini Opera Festival is an opera festival held in August of each year in Pesaro, Italy, the birthplace of the opera composer Gioachino Rossini....
Coaches, two forty-five minute voice lessons per week, two to four recitative classes with maestri and weekly masterclasses with resident faculty. The operas are all double cast. Those participants cast in roles perform two of the four fully stage performances with a professional orchestra.
Recent conductors, stage directors and vocal faculty include Alberto Zedda, Joseph Rescigno
Joseph Rescigno
Joseph Rescigno is a conductor and Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor of the Florentine Opera Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the United States . He also serves as Music Director of La Musica Lirica festival in Italy...
, Robert Ashens, Dejan Miladinovic
Dejan Miladinovic
Dejan Miladinović von Voynits is a Serbian opera director. He was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, in a family of opera artists...
, William Shomos, Dwight Coleman, Julia Faulkner, Brian Leeper, Mary Anne Scott, Karen Peeler, John DeHaan, Linda Hurt, and Melody Racine.