COSI 2020 Program:
July 1 - July 22, 2020
Intensive Italian
Lessons, Coaching Sessions
Masterclasses
Acting & Stagecraft Instruction
Courtyard & Cathedral Performances
Complete Role Study
Career Forums & Workshops
Performances:
Mozart Così fan tutte: semi-staged
Stuart Barker, Stage Director
Kimberley-Ann Bartczak, Music Director
Opera Scenes: semi-staged
Melissa Bencic, Stage Director
Nathalie Doucet, Music Director
Mozart Requiem soloists: with the
Ensemble in Residence: Toronto Youth Choir
Matthew Otto, Artistic Director
Helen Becqué, Collaborative Pianist
CELEBRATED
INTERNATIONAL FACULTY from:
•GERMANY
•GREAT BRITAIN
•ITALY
•THE NETHERLANDS
•THE UNITED STATES
•CANADA
The Centre for Opera Studies in Italy gratefully acknowledges the generous founding support of The Bel Canto Foundation for Italian Heritage and Opera.
Centre for Opera Studies in Italy
Welcomes International Participants
to its
Extraordinary Opera Training!
COSI provides a comprehensive opera performance training program for:
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undergraduate students
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graduate students
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emerging artists
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avid enthusiasts
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in-career artists, and
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voice teachers seeking professional development.
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The COSI EXPERIENCE
•Training rich
•Comprehensive, customized
•Italian life, study and practice in the community
•Network for your career: build professional and peer relationships
SINCE 2007:
•Hundreds of singers, pianists, stage directors, conductors, stage managers.
•Many have advanced to
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National and Regional YAPs
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International careers
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Several of our alumni are now working in major international houses.
Click on their names to view their pages.
•Claire de Sévigné, soprano: Zurich Oper, Grand Théâtre de Genève
•Lucia Cesaroni, soprano: Vancouver Opera, L'Opéra de Montréal
•Aviva Fortunata, soprano: Dallas Opera, Berlin Staatsoper
•Katherine Whyte, soprano: Metropolitan Opera, Opera Hong Kong
•Emily D'Angelo, mezzo-soprano: Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Opera
•Michèle Losier, mezzo-soprano: Metropolitan, La Scala, Covent Garden
•Marta Herman, mezzo-soprano: Staatstheater Kassel
•Eric Barry, tenor: Colorado Opera, Amarillo Opera
•Andrew Haji, tenor: Salzburg Opera, Belgrade Philharmonic
•Adam Luther, tenor: Michigan Opera, Vancouver Opera
•Charles Sy, tenor: Staatstheater Stuttgart, Nationaltheater Mannheim
•Alexander Hajek, baritone: Semper Oper Dresden, Staatstheater Giessen
•Iain Macneil, baritone: Oper Frankfurt, Canadian Opera Company
•Stephen Hegedus, bass-baritone: L'Opéra de Montréal, Opera Lafayette
•Giles Tomkins, bass-baritone: Scottish Opera (Glasgow), Manitoba Opera
•Vartan Gabrielian, bass: Opera Philadelphia, Canadian Opera Company
•Joel Ivany, artistic director: Against the Grain Theatre
•Jordan de Souza, conductor: Komische Oper Berlin, Houston Grand Opera
•Anne Larlee, coach: Komische Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt