Bayerische Opernakademie /  Bavarian Opera Academy
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Workshops & Auditions in Bavaria, Germany

​These workshops are intended for professional opera singers who need assistance with their breakthrough in their international opera careers. At the end of each workshop, the participants will have the opportunity to audition for an important Opera / Casting Director.

Program:
- Audition Training
(repertoire, expression, acting & movement skills etc.)
- Vocal Technique

​& audition for opera houses

upcoming workshops 


​- December 11th - December 15th 2019 -already full
(audition for András Almási-Tóth, Artistic Director of State Opera Budapest on December 15th)
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- January 8th - January 12th 2020 -already full
(audition for Robert Körner, designed Casting Director of Wien State Opera on January 12th)

- January 15th - January 16th 2020 Attention! This workshop & audition will be held in Bucharest!!
(audition for opera agency "IOA Management")  
​Further info: https://www.bayerische-opernakademie.de/audition-bucharest.html

- February 5th - February 9th 2020
(audition for Ilias Tzempetonidis, Casting Director of Opéra national de Paris on February 9th)

- March 4th - March 8th 2020
(audition for Peter Katona, Casting Director of Royal Opera House London on March 8th)

- March 20th - March 22nd 2020 - Weekend Special, only two spots left
(audition for André Bücker, General Director of State Opera Augsburg)

- April 15th - April 19th 2020
(audition for Berthold Warnecke, Operndirektor of Opera Würzburg am April 19th)
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- April 23rd - April 25th 2020 Attention! This workshop & audition will be held in San Francisco!!
(audition for opera agency "IOA Management")
Further info: https://www.bayerische-opernakademie.de/audition-sanfrancisco.html​)

- May 1st - May 3rd 2020
(audition for Michael Barobeck, Director of Artistic Office (Casting)  of Opera Graz on May 3rd)

- May 27th - May 31st 2020
(audition for Guy Montavon, General Director of Opera Erfurt on May 31st) 

- June 17th - June 21st 2020 Attention! This workshop will be held in Regensburg and not in Bad Endorf
(audition for Jens Neundorff von Enzberg, General Director of Opera Regensburg on Junes 21st)

July 29th - August 1st 2020 Attention! This workshop will be held in Tallinn (Estonia) 
(audition for Jaakko Kortekangas, Casting Manager of Finnish National Opera on August 1st)

previous workshops...

These workshops are meant exclusively for singers who possess the potential for international careers as opera singers. We select the participants through application. In order to book a slot at our workshop, please send your request to our Casting Adviser Monika Hauswalter. Contact dates are listed below. ​

Link to the price list and application form...

teachers

- Kalle Kanttila, Director & Artist Manager of IOA Management         
More info...

- Monika Hauswalter, Casting Consultant of IOA Management & voice teacher ​        
More info...
More about IOA Management...
Here's one interview with our Bavarian Opera Academy's director Kalle Kanttila talking with Thomas Janda (Opera Magazine "Der neue Merker") about the agency and the recently founded Bavarian Opera Academy! 
http://der-neue-merker.eu/kalle-kantilla-tenor-und-agenturchef-immer-in-vollem-einsatz
OnlineMerker has written a nice article about our workshop & audition at Joroinen Music Festival in Finland!
   "Ein solches Vorsingen ist für die meisten Sänger (sofern sie nicht bei einem großen Wettbewerb entdeckt werden) ein unverzichtbarer Schritt, bei dem es sich zeigt, ob sich die jungen Künstler selber richtig einschätzen können, d.h. ob sie wissen, für welches Fach bzw. welche Partien ihre Stimme am besten geeignet ist, und wie sie sich bei aller verständlichen Nervosität, häufig noch unter ungünstigen akustischen Bedingungen, präsentieren sollten..."
weiter lesen...

Location

Kirchpl. 5,
83093 Bad Endorf
Germany
http://www.endorfer-hof.de

Contact: info@bavarian-opera-academy.com

More info about our venues..

Timetable for train...
(Munich-Bad Endorf)
In our auditions with IOA Management on February 2019 at Opera Essen were representatives from Deutsche Opera am Rhein Düsseldorf, Opera Dortmund, Opera Bonn, State Opera Stuttgart, Opera Lyon, Nederlandse Reisopera, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Semperoper Dresden, Opera Detmold, State Opera Hannover, Opera Graz, Opera St. Gallen, Opera Wuppertal, Opera Koblenz, Bregenz Opera Festival, Oper Freiburg, Theater Krefeld und Mönchengladbach, Opera Cairo (Egypt), Opera Gelsenkirchen, Opera Köln, Bruckner-House Linz, PromFest Pärnu, Estonia, Tartu Opera, Estonia, State Opera Oldenburg, Teatro Coccia di Novara and the producer of television channel ZDF. 
In our auditions with IOA Management on May 2018 at Finnish National Opera were representatives from Finnish National Opera, Estonian National Oper, Danish National Opera (Copenhagen), Opera Erfurt, State Opera Hamburg, State Opera  Stuttgart, Staatstheater Oldenburg, Opera Tampere, Opera Palermo (Teatro Massimo), Opera Tarto, Opera Magdeburg, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Semperoper Dresden, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra. 
In our auditions with IOA Management on September 2017 at Bavarian State Opera were representatives from Bavarian State Opera, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Wiener Staatsoper, Finnish National Opera, Salzburg Osterfestspiele, L’Opéra de Lille, Opera Graz, Opera St. Gallen, Opera Klagenfurt, Opera Basel, Opera Bonn, Nationaltheater Weimar, Opera Augsburg, Opera Biel-Solothurn, State Opera Nürnberg, Opera Novara, Italy, Opera Tartu, Estonia, Opera Magdeburg, Opera Malmö, Sweden, Sofia National Opera , Opera Coburg, Opera Regensburg, Volksoper Wien, Opera Trier, Staatstheater München, Opera Bielefeld, Opera Classica Europa, Staufer-Festspiele, State Opera Braunschweig, Gut Immling Opera Festival