CANCELLED DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.
CAROLINE DOWDLE
(Royal Opera House, Samling Foundation, Estonian National Opera, Verbier)
FELICE VENANZONI
(Oper Frankfurt, Salzburg Festival)
(Royal Opera House, Samling Foundation, Estonian National Opera, Verbier)
FELICE VENANZONI
(Oper Frankfurt, Salzburg Festival)
ANASTASIA NIKOLOV, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
JULIE WYMA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
JULIE WYMA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
THE PROGRAM WILL ACCEPT UP TO 10 SINGERS, 2 PIANISTS AND 1 CONDUCTOR.
The program will accept 10 singers and 2 pianists for a week-long intensive program focusing on Mozart’s Italian operas:
La finta semplice (1768)
Mitridate (1770)
Ascanio in Alba (1771)
Il sogno di Scipione (1772)
Lucio Silla (1772)
La finta giardiniera (1774)
Il re pastore (1775)
Idomeneo (1780/81)
L'oca del Cairo (1784)
Lo sposo deluso (1784)
Le nozze di Figaro (1786)
Don Giovanni (1787)
Così fan tutte (1790)
La clemenza di Tito (1791)
Featured lectures and coachings include:
Participants will take part in:
SINGER
Faculty will guide artists in building practical tools on how to:
The program will culminate in a public concert. Participants will receive an audio recording of the final performance free of charge.
La finta semplice (1768)
Mitridate (1770)
Ascanio in Alba (1771)
Il sogno di Scipione (1772)
Lucio Silla (1772)
La finta giardiniera (1774)
Il re pastore (1775)
Idomeneo (1780/81)
L'oca del Cairo (1784)
Lo sposo deluso (1784)
Le nozze di Figaro (1786)
Don Giovanni (1787)
Così fan tutte (1790)
La clemenza di Tito (1791)
Featured lectures and coachings include:
- Lectures and Masterclasses on:
- Libretto/Poetry
- Socio-Political background
- Opera as drama
- Performance practice of Italian Mozart operas
- Vocal technique, musical phrasing, and language use
- Preparing for an audition with Italian Mozart repertoire for the German Theatre System
Participants will take part in:
SINGER
- Daily musical/vocal coachings
- Language and diction coachings
- Style and performance practice masterclasses
- Recitative Masterclasses
- Playing for musical/vocal coachings
- Individual coachings with Caroline Dowdle
- Language and diction coachings
- Style and performance practice masterclasses
- Recitative Masterclasses
- Daily musical/vocal coachings
- Conducting lessons with Felice Venanzoni
- Conducting recitative, arias and ensembles
- Language and diction coachings
- Style and performance practice masterclasses
- Recitative Masterclasses
Faculty will guide artists in building practical tools on how to:
- search for the simplest way to communicate text honestly and creatively;
- cohesively merge musical expression and healthy technique, unimpeded by tension;
- discover essential and unique beauty of sound and phrasing, through the sentiments being expressed;
- explore multiple angles/multiple approaches to a piece of music;
- work linguistically on recitative, solos and ensembles within a Mozart role;
- communicate textual and musical content organically.
The program will culminate in a public concert. Participants will receive an audio recording of the final performance free of charge.
FACULTY
CAROLINE DOWDLE
Caroline Dowdle was born in South Africa and studied music at the University of Cape Town, where she was taught by the eminent chamber musician Lamar Crowson. There she qualified with a Masters in Music before moving to England to study at the Royal Northern College of Music as a solo pianist, under Renna Kellaway. She was awarded a fellowship in accompaniment at the college, a post which she held for 2 years, before moving to London to begin her career as a freelance pianist. For many years she was a staff pianist at the Britten Pears School in Aldeburgh, where she worked alongside many of the most eminent singers and instrumentalists of their generation, and studied many of the Britten operas.
Since then she has performed widely in Britain and in Europe, giving recitals with singers and instrumentalists at the South Bank and Wigmore Hall, London, in Paris for Radio France, in Vienna and in Moscow. Since the summer of 2008 she has run the Opera Academy at the Verbier International Music Festival. She has also performed in the Festival itself.
Recently she has appeared in numerous recitals with the esteemed baritone, Sir Thomas Allen.
She has worked for Opera de Rouen in 2009 and 2011 as “chef de chant” and as pianist in performances of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and Albert Herring, both in Rouen and at the Theatre Comique, in Paris. She works regularly as a coach with the singers on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and was appointed as a professor to the faculty of the Royal College of Music in 2015. She is the Musical Director of both the Samling Academy for young singers in the North-east of England, and the Academy of French Song and Opera, a course run in France each summer.
In 2016 Caroline worked as a vocal coach in Beijing with students from the Central Conservatoire there, and was also appointed as a regular guest.
Caroline Dowdle was born in South Africa and studied music at the University of Cape Town, where she was taught by the eminent chamber musician Lamar Crowson. There she qualified with a Masters in Music before moving to England to study at the Royal Northern College of Music as a solo pianist, under Renna Kellaway. She was awarded a fellowship in accompaniment at the college, a post which she held for 2 years, before moving to London to begin her career as a freelance pianist. For many years she was a staff pianist at the Britten Pears School in Aldeburgh, where she worked alongside many of the most eminent singers and instrumentalists of their generation, and studied many of the Britten operas.
Since then she has performed widely in Britain and in Europe, giving recitals with singers and instrumentalists at the South Bank and Wigmore Hall, London, in Paris for Radio France, in Vienna and in Moscow. Since the summer of 2008 she has run the Opera Academy at the Verbier International Music Festival. She has also performed in the Festival itself.
Recently she has appeared in numerous recitals with the esteemed baritone, Sir Thomas Allen.
She has worked for Opera de Rouen in 2009 and 2011 as “chef de chant” and as pianist in performances of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and Albert Herring, both in Rouen and at the Theatre Comique, in Paris. She works regularly as a coach with the singers on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and was appointed as a professor to the faculty of the Royal College of Music in 2015. She is the Musical Director of both the Samling Academy for young singers in the North-east of England, and the Academy of French Song and Opera, a course run in France each summer.
In 2016 Caroline worked as a vocal coach in Beijing with students from the Central Conservatoire there, and was also appointed as a regular guest.
FELICE VENANZONI
Since 1999, Felice Venanzoni is Maestro (Korrepetitor) for Oper Frankfurt (Germany), and since 2002 also covers the role of Studienleiter (director of musical studies) there. Felice is from Macerata, Italy. He graduated in piano with the highest honors under the guidance of Lorenzo Bavaj at the Conservatory of Pesaro. He expanded his musical training with Sergio Fiorentino, Viktor Merzhanov and Pier Narciso Masi.
After the first steps in the world of opera as a substitute teacher at the Sferisterio Arena of Macerata (1994), Maestro Venanzoni began working regularly with the Association As.Li.Co. in Milan as coach, House and Stage Maestro, and accompanist for numerous courses and masterclasses (Leyla Gencer, Renata Scotto, Rockwell Blake, Edoardo Müller). Maestro Venanzoni made his debut as conductor in 2005 for Oper Frankfurt in Monetverdi’s Incoronazione di Poppea. Since then, he also conducted Monteverdi’s Orfeo (2005), Ballo delle Ingrate (2006), Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (2006), Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria (2007), Agrippina – Handel (2006), Ariodante – Handel (2007), La Juditta – Almeida (2010), Orlando Furioso – Vivaldi (2010), and Theseus – Handel (2013). In 2008 he was musical assistant and the fortepiano continuo at the Salzburg Festival for Mozart’s Don Giovanni (B. de Billy / K. Guth / Wiener Philharmoniker), production for which he directed the reprisals in 2010 and 2011 under the musical direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Maestro Felice Venanzoni works as a continuo player and assistant music with Jean Christoph Spinosi and Ensemble Matheus in his opera productions and concerts in France, Germany, Austria, America and Canada.
He has recorded for RAI (RAI Radio 2 and 3) and recorded several CDs for RCA Red Seal (Italian Art Songs) and Musicaimmagine of Rome (world premiere recording of “Fantasies and entertainment on the works of Verdi” Give and G. A. Panzini, for piano six hands).
Since 1999, Felice Venanzoni is Maestro (Korrepetitor) for Oper Frankfurt (Germany), and since 2002 also covers the role of Studienleiter (director of musical studies) there. Felice is from Macerata, Italy. He graduated in piano with the highest honors under the guidance of Lorenzo Bavaj at the Conservatory of Pesaro. He expanded his musical training with Sergio Fiorentino, Viktor Merzhanov and Pier Narciso Masi.
After the first steps in the world of opera as a substitute teacher at the Sferisterio Arena of Macerata (1994), Maestro Venanzoni began working regularly with the Association As.Li.Co. in Milan as coach, House and Stage Maestro, and accompanist for numerous courses and masterclasses (Leyla Gencer, Renata Scotto, Rockwell Blake, Edoardo Müller). Maestro Venanzoni made his debut as conductor in 2005 for Oper Frankfurt in Monetverdi’s Incoronazione di Poppea. Since then, he also conducted Monteverdi’s Orfeo (2005), Ballo delle Ingrate (2006), Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (2006), Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria (2007), Agrippina – Handel (2006), Ariodante – Handel (2007), La Juditta – Almeida (2010), Orlando Furioso – Vivaldi (2010), and Theseus – Handel (2013). In 2008 he was musical assistant and the fortepiano continuo at the Salzburg Festival for Mozart’s Don Giovanni (B. de Billy / K. Guth / Wiener Philharmoniker), production for which he directed the reprisals in 2010 and 2011 under the musical direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Maestro Felice Venanzoni works as a continuo player and assistant music with Jean Christoph Spinosi and Ensemble Matheus in his opera productions and concerts in France, Germany, Austria, America and Canada.
He has recorded for RAI (RAI Radio 2 and 3) and recorded several CDs for RCA Red Seal (Italian Art Songs) and Musicaimmagine of Rome (world premiere recording of “Fantasies and entertainment on the works of Verdi” Give and G. A. Panzini, for piano six hands).
