International Opera Masterclass 2024
The Orchestra of the North Bohemian Theatre
17 - 23 August 2024
This intensive summer training course is aimed to improve the vocal technique of participants and provide them with highly professional advice in interpreting Classical and Romantic 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 singers Ingrid Habermann (soprano, Austria) & Marina Shaguch (Czech Republic / the ex-soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia), Maestro Martin Sieghart (Austria) and the operatic coach of the National Theater Brno - Kostiantin Tyshko (the Czech Republic / Ukraine).
The course offers individual voice lessons, interpretation lessons, rehearsals and a concert with the orchestra as well as interactive talks on choosing repertoires, conductor-singer communication and common singers' mistakes at auditions. Participants are expected to attend all lessons and rehearsals.
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 (if necessary), 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 get the best result!
10 the best singers will have the opportunity to demonstrate their enhanced skills at the final concert with the orchestra of the North Bohemian Theatre in Ústí nad Labem.
All participants will have an opportunity to record selected pieces for your portfolio in rehearsals with the orchestra.
All orchestra rehearsals and concerts will be video recorded and participants will receive edited videos via online transfer two weeks after the masterclass. Unedited videos will be available immediately and can be copied on your USB memory stick.
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 part in the masterclass as Active participants.
REPERTOIRE
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni & Così fan tutte - arias, rechitatives and ensebles .
Please, select from this repertoire and prepare 3-5 arias, duets or scenes from one repertoire abowe:
Please make a notice of your selection in your application.
VENUE OF THE MASTERCLASS
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.
ORCHESTRA
The Orchestra of the North Bohemian Theater
performs in all productions that are in the theater's repertoire. The cast of 41 members interprets even the most demanding works of Czech and world opera, operetta and ballet literature. His regular concert activity is also significant. The orchestra's repertoire includes, among others, Smetana's My Homeland, Dvořák's New World Symphony and Slavic Dances, Tchaikovsky's Pathetic Symphony and Festive Overture 1812, Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4, Mussorgsky's Pictures from an Exhibition and Franz Liszt's Les Préludes. Every year we also prepare a traditional Christmas concert for you, the obligatory part of which is always the Czech Christmas Mass by Jan Jakub Ryba, concerts of operetta melodies and new opera talents are also popular.
The NBOB orchestra invites top soloists to collaborate. He accompanied Ivan Ženáty in Dvořák's Violin Concerto in A minor, Igor Ardashev in Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B minor, and studied Janáček's Taras Bulba with the organist Aleš Bárta. Together with an opera choir and soloists, he performs vocal-instrumental works such as Dvořák's Stabat Mater and Mozart's, Verdi's and Dvořák's Requiem
CONCERTS
The Final concert takes place at the the North Bohemian Theater on August 23 at 19.00.
LANGUAGE
The course will be taught in English. Our tutors will provide additional explanations in German, French, Italian, Czech and Russian.
TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION
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 for any questions.
CONTACT
Please, email the masterclass manager:
conductingmasterclasses.eu@gmail.com
Phone number: +420 608 917 903
TUTORS
Ingrid Habermann
sopranoVoice lessons & interpretation
Trained at the Mozarteum Salzburg, Ingrid Habermann was a long-term leading soprano at the Landestheater Linz and Stadttheater Bern. Implementation of Belcanto style in charming and charismatic artistic roles is an extremely difficult challenge for young artists, and she willingly shares her knowledge with the young generation.
Маrina Shaguch - the leading soprano at the Mariinsky Theatre since 1990, soloist at the Metropolitan Opera (1995 - 1996), Professor of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory (2008 - 2011), cooperates with IMG Artists and Columbia Artists Management Inc. (CAMI). She has recorded for the Philips, BMG, Conifer, Capriccio, Chandos, Octavia, Supraphon and Hänssler labels.
Martin Bárta - baritone, soloist of the State Opera in Prague since1997, the Opéra National du Rhin, the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, the National Theatre in Brno and others. He has performed in Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Japan, South Korea and the USA. Since 2006 he has taught solo singing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
Austria’s Martin Sieghart is recognized as one of his country’s most versatile musicians. In addition to his lifelong experience as a conductor from all over the world, he is also a teacher of many successful international students. Martin is the founder and director of several festivals, a former longtime cellist of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and an organist. Maestro teaches critical aspects of conducting, studying the score, musical analysis, conducting technique and principals of working with singers.
Kostiantyn Tyshko
coach & pianistKostiantyn Tyshko works at the National Opera Theater Brno as an assistant conductor and pianist, he is a main pianist of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts. He regularly records with the Czech National Radio and cooperates with ProArt and ICM Concert Agencies. As a soloist, he performed with Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, “Chordata Brno” orchestra and others, has performed in Ukraine, Lithuania, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic.
OPERA SINGING MASTERCLASS FEES
There is no registration/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 two weeks no later than two weeks after 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 starts.
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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