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.
Faculty
GET CONNECTED with COSI’s
Extraordinary Opera Training!
Our COSI 2020 Faculty Includes:
Stuart D. Barker, British Youth Opera: Director of Productions and Training.
COSI 2020: Stage Director - Così fan tutte. Acting, Stagecraft, Audition Techniques.
Laura Claycomb, Grammy® Award winning soprano. La Scala, Berlin Staatsoper, Paris
National Opera, Bastille Opéra, Opéra Nice,
Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera,
Kennedy Center, English National Opera.
COSI 2020: Voice Teaching
Workshop: Young Artist Corner
Nathalie Doucet, Amsterdam Conservatorium, Dutch National Opera, DNO Academy. Des Moines Opera, Orlando Opera. Opera Coach
COSI 2020: Music Director: Opera Scenes. Opera Coach.
Workshop: Singing in Europe
Bravo Academy for the Performing Arts
Sheridan College
New Music Theatre Intensives
COSI 2020: Stage Director: Opera Scenes
& Intensives
Workshops: Your Stage Toolkit
Dalhousie University
COSI 2020:
Voice Teaching
Workshops: Best Proven Strategies for Indie Opera
Coach and Collaborative Pianist
University of Toronto Faculty of Music
COSI 2020: Director of Collaborative Activities
Maestro Giuseppe Finzi. San Francisco Opera, Opéra Nice, Opera Liceu Barcelona, San Carlo Opera Naples, Deutsche Oper Berlin.
COSI 2020: Master Class, and coach-conductor for singer/collaborative piano duos.
Kimberley-Ann Bartczak.
Resident Conductor, Calgary Opera.
COSI 2020: Music Director
Conductor: Così fan tutte
Opera Coach
Tania Puglielli, Director: “The English School” of International Languages, Sulmona. Italian Instructor
Ensemble-in-Residence:
THE TORONTO YOUTH CHOIR
Matthew Otto, Artistic Director
Helen Becqué, Collaborative Pianist
Stage Movement, Integrative Performance
Giorgia Sciuba: “The English School” of International Languages, Sulmona.
Italian Instructor
COSI’s “Extraordinary Opera Training” has always been at its heart. We continue to offer outstanding teaching and mentors for our young artists, just as we have since we began in 2007. Since our beginning, our faculty has included:
Andrist, Rachel
Berman, Jonathan
Brett, Kathleen
Claycomb, Laura
Dala, Leslie
Diamond, Tom
Dorgan, Paul
Edwards, Darryl
Finzi, Giuseppe
Haywood, Lorna
Hermiston, Nancy
Hiebert, Shannon
Im, Miah
Isaac, Carol
Isepp, Martin
Larlee, Anne
Mallon, Kevin
Marvel, James
Marrs, Stephanie
Mauro, Louisa
McIntosh, Brian
McMahon, Michael
Nash, Maika’i
Nelson, Timothy
Nieuwenhuis, Hans
Noble, Timothy
Perruzza, Fred
Philcox, Steven
Pleasants-Faulkner, Isolde
Pratschke, Sinéad
Raftery, J. Patrick
Swan, Jennifer
Tarver, Jennifer
Tremills, Kathryn
Tyrrell, Kinza
Upchurch, Liz
Vernon O.C., Timothy
Wood, Karen
Yan, Judith
