Opera in Duluth on the shores of beautiful Lake Superior!

Summer, 2011

Dr. Regina Zona designed a new opera program for the summer of 2010. In addition to an opportunity to perform a fully staged opera with orchestra - Don Giovanni - she has expanded the offerings to create a more comprehensive training program.

This is an intensive five-week training program for aspiring opera singers who range from undergraduate and graduate college students through emerging professionals. We are providing a very important step in the typical path of the young opera singer. In the transition from being a student of singing in college to a working opera singer, these young performers need to gain the necessary skills to navigate through this challenging career. They attend training programs like ours to learn how to audition, how to perform, how to interpret music and characters, how to network and they get performance experience to put on their resume.

The curriculum includes the following:

• Voice Lessons
• Coachings
• Weekly master classes (with festival teachers/conductors or guest artists)
• Weekly repertoire recitals (lieder, melodie, 20 th/21 st century, ensembles, etc.) – would also require weekly rehearsals
• Yoga for Singers
• Stage Combat
• Audition techniques (repertoire, dress, deportment, etc.)
• Acting and Role Preparation
• Dance
• Alexander Technique
• The Business of Singing Workshop (resumes/headshots/agents/auditions, etc.)

Of course, this requires the participants to pay a nominal tuition fee; however, it gives you an opportunity to receive college credit if you desire it and, more importantly, to gain the most valuable information, training and contacts to prepare you for this rigorous career. For more information, contact Dr. Regina Zona.