In 2021, Russian Opera Workshop continues as a VirtualRole Study Workshop. In-person summer program returns in 2022.
Our 11th training season includes two separate sessions of popular Tchaikovsky standards, Iolanta (June 7-18, 2021)and Eugene Onegin (July 5-16, 2021).
Auditions for this summer workshop are not required. However, only appropriate submissions will be considered.Apply here.
Application deadline is April 1, 2021orwhen the program is filled, whichever occurs first.
Because the program is based on availability, we encourage opera singers to apply early, particularly those who have upcoming engagements of these operas.
Artists receive self-guided materials ahead of the workshop.
Intensive daily role study.
Daily Russian language class with Prof. Olia Prokopenko (Temple).
Russian lyric diction, vocal coaching, style and interpretation, and opera lecture class with Ghenady Meirson (AVA, Curtis).
Daily role preparation coaching with Gabriel Rebolla (Temple), Elise Auerbach (AVA, Temple) and Ting Ting Wong (AVA, Curtis, Temple).
Guests include international opera stars Angela Meade and Bryan Hymel, the General Manager of San Francisco Opera Center, Markus Beam, and the preeminent audition coach and AVA faculty, Thor Eckert.
Ghenady Meirson Russian Opera Workshop Founder & Music Director Biography
“Every summer since 2011, Meirson has conducted Russian Opera Workshop... familiarizing vocal students from all over with the idiom and offering free performances of two focal works.” Opera News
Meirson is “perhaps the preeminent expositor of the Russian vocal repertoire in America, and he does that through the annual Russian Opera Workshop programs." BroadwayWorld
“Russian Opera Workshop is a prime example of the high-level quality and summertime casualness that characterize Philadelphia’s summer music season.” Broad Street Review
“Ghenady Meirson has been the go to-master for two decades in Philadelphia for authentic Russian operatic repertoire.” Huffington Post
