La Musica Lirica
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La Musica Lirica [1] 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.
