HIGHLANDS OPERA STUDIO
Valerie Kuinka and Richard Margison - Artistic Directors
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HIGHLANDS OPERA STUDIO Valerie Kuinka and Richard Margison - Artistic Directors |
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05/10/07 |
      
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Welcome to Highlands Opera Studio: August 5-29, 2008Set in the beautiful surroundings of the Haliburton Highlands in Northern Ontario, Canada. Highlands Opera Studio provides advanced operatic training to a select group of talented young professionals with the main objective to provide these singers with the necessary skills to embark on a career in opera. The second season of Highlands Opera Studio runs from Tuesday August 5th to Friday August 29th and provides six hours of training and rehearsals per day six days a week. The course involves approximately 12 participants ranging in age from nineteen to thirty. (Auditions are held in the spring and dates will be posted on this site.) The program includes voice master classes, individual voice lessons, stage craft coaching and staging rehearsals for the double bill. Public performances include open master-classes with internationally acclaimed vocal pedagogue Selena James on Thursday August 7th, Friday August 8th and Saturday August 9th, an evening of operatic excerpts on Friday August 15th, and two fully staged one act chamber operas on a double-bill; La Cambiale di Matrimonio (The Marriage Contract) of Rossini, and Signor Deluso of Pasatieri on Monday August 25, Wednesday August 27 and Friday August 29.
* * * * * * * Highlands Opera Studio is a not-for-profit organization. Donations are gratefully accepted and tax-receipts will be issued promptly. The charitable registration number is: 871857918 RR0001. Tax deductible donations can be made to Highlands Summer Festival. Please write a memo stating the money is for Highlands Opera Studio.
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This site was last updated 05/10/07
