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MA Advanced Opera Performance

UK

What will I learn?

Course Overview

This programme provides extensive training relevant to the requirements and demands of professional opera companies, addressing important employability issues that will become increasingly significant in the coming decade.

  • One-to-one singing lessons and repertoire coaching
  • Individual tuition with eminent professional singers and leading coaches
  • Specialist tuition in Italian, French and German
  • Fully integrated classes in stagecraft including movement and dance
  • Tuition in dramatic and interpretative skills
  • Classes focusing on professional etiquette and opera protocol, developing an awareness of collaborative working practices
  • Professional operatic working practices with professional directors and repetiteurs
  • Public performance in a fully staged opera
  • Opera scenes presentations including baroque and contemporary works as well as standard repertoire
  • Opportunities to observe and shadow Welsh National Opera (WNO) concert party events, WNO Max projects and selected studio rehearsals
  • WNO chorus mentors by request
  • Intensive training in audition technique
  • Detailed study and preparation of a complete operatic role for presentation at a professionally equivalent audition and working session. This is usually assessed by a Head of Music from one of the main UK opera companies

Which department am I in?

Royal Welsh college of Music & Drama

Study options

Full Time (2 years)

Tuition fees
£27,600.00 (30,07,191) per year
This amount is for the first year only. The tuition fee payable in the second year is subject to an annual increase.

This is a fixed fee

* on institution website

Start date

September 2025

Venue

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Castle Grounds,

Cathays Park,

Cardiff,

CF10 3ER, WALES, Wales

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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