http://www.crittendenopera.org/
Richard Crittenden established The Crittenden Opera Studio in New York City to help aspiring opera singers learn and refine their craft and to prepare them for a professional operatic career.
Each summer two major 2-week opera workshops are held. The first Washington, D.C., session also contains a stage director's seminar. Opera workshops and Master Classes have been given in other parts of the country in association with a sponsoring group. Summer Opera Workshops are used to teach singers the necessary skills for the opera stage - acting, stage and rehearsal techniques; awareness of self, the music, and the drama; practical thought processes that enable singers to make artistic dramatic decisions.
http://www.metoperafamily.org/education/general/backstage.aspx
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/broadcast/hd_events_next.aspx
http://www.nycopera.com/learning/programs/ovation.aspx
This four-day seminar for high school vocal students offers an intensive course in professional artistic development. The Vocal Seminar focuses on the art and skills of auditioning, and ranges in topics from how to enter the audition room to finding the character. This program is offered to a limited number of students, which provides each with individual time to work with a professional vocal coach. In addition, City Opera professionals will conduct seminars on movement, vocal technique, and acting. The seminar culminates with the participants singing for a panel of City Opera personnel and music teachers. This “mock audition” takes place on the stage of the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center.
Victorian Lyric rehearses and performs in Maryland. They use an auditioned, volunteer opera chorus.
http://www.vloc.org/wiki/Main_Page
Opera Institute for Young Singers
For serious vocal students ages 15-18
June23-July12, 2008
Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Opera Institute for Young Singers is a three-week pre-professional performance training program designed to provide serious vocal students between the ages of 15 and 18 the training components essential for a well-educated young singer serious about pursuing an operatic career. The Opera Institute curriculum focuses on Italian art songs and includes classes in drama, movement, yoga for singers, ear training, sight singing, opera history, and Italian diction. Students participate in master classes, opera scenes, individual vocal coaching, and group and individual voice lessons. Opera professionals present workshops on relevant topics including auditioning, college and résumé preparation, and vocal health. The program culminates with each student performing in an Italian Art Song Recital.
An integral part of Northwestern University's acclaimed School of Music, the National High School Music Institute offers an intimate look at collegiate-level music study and music as a career. With a renowned faculty of more than 100, over 24 performance ensembles, and a myriad of classes, the institute offers an ideally challenging summer to the serious high school musician.
For more information including housing, fees, etc. go to:
http://www.northwestern.edu/nhsi/
In the past applications have been accepted from early march through April and auditions have been in both mid-March and late-April.
Designed for rising high school Juniors and Seniors, our six-week residential Pre-College program give students the opportunity to see what a performance or composition major is all about.
Vocal Performance
The vocal performance major has a rich curriculum of performance and music support opportunities. Voice majors receive a one-hour private studio lesson (with professional accompanist) and an additional half-hour private vocal coaching session each week through the summer where they work on technique and the preparation and presentation of classical repertoire. Voice majors also take dance, acting and vocal performance classes and perform with the summer Concert Choir and the Music Theatre Workshop.
When applying to the program, all students must audition into a Major Studio: instrumental, vocal or composition. Please send an audio recording of a solo representative of your level of performance (vocal/instrumental applicants) or scores of recent original compostitions (composition applicants). Please include a summary or resumé of your musical training and accomplishments.
For more information about this program go to:
http://www.cmu.edu/enrollment/pre-college/music.html
*note there is also a Drama program as part of this same school, follow the links on the above page
The New England Conservatory also offers a wide selection of summer classes/ workshops for high school age students. The list of program catagories can be found here:
http://necmusic.edu/ce/summer-institutes
We recommend anyone who is interested explore the website to find the right program for them.
The Governor's School at the University of Richmond operates as an inter-disciplinary team-taught instructional model that combines the arts and humanities, including dance, visual art, theatre, music, literature, rhetoric, and the social sciences. Two independent schools - Governor's School for Humanities and Governor's School for Visual & Performing Arts - work in cooperation and conjunction with one another, providing learners an opportunity to interact and study with students and instructors from both schools. The model for the Governor's School curriculum is interdisciplinary and team taught in nature and has been recently addressed in the literature as the "transdisciplinary approach."
Students receive their applications from school guidance counselors or administrators responsible for the selection process, or download them from the DOE website. Applications completed on time are forwarded to the school district's selection committee, which then ranks the applications and sends the top nominees to the DOE. All students forwarded to the DOE will receieve notification in Mid-April from the DOE regarding their status. All others should be notified by their school division. Final selection of accepted and waitlisted students rests in the DOE, not with the local school division or individual programs.
Students who are home-schooled or are residents of Virginia but attend accredited schools outside of Virginia may also be nominated for Virginia's Governor's School if they meet all eligibility requirements. Such students should contact the DOE, SRGS@doe.virginia.gov or 804-225-2651, for more information.
For more information about Governors school go to:
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/instruction/governors_school_programs/index.shtml