Croatia - Opera beyond the postcard
Opera Road Trip
In this episode of Opera Road Trip, host Sebastian F. Schwarz turns to Croatia as a revealing case study for the operatic realities of smaller European countries. Blessed with one of the most striking Mediterranean coastlines and internationally known cities such as Split and Dubrovnik, Croatia attracts nearly five times as many visitors each year as it has inhabitants. Yet this global visibility is highly seasonal and geographically concentrated — while the country’s operatic infrastructure functions largely inland, year-round, and far from the tourist gaze. The episode argues that...
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Singing competitions - Has the jury reached a verdict?
Opera Road Trip
In this episode of Opera Road Trip, host Sebastian Schwarz turns the spotlight from national operatic traditions to a crucial gateway for emerging artists: singing competitions. Against the backdrop of increasingly opaque casting processes, the episode explores why competitions continue to play a decisive — and controversial — role in operatic careers today. Schwarz is joined by key figures from some of Europe’s most influential competitions, including Beata Klatka (Stanisław Moniuszko International Vocal Competition, Warsaw), Lars Flaaten (Queen Sonja Singing Competition, Oslo), and...
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Toast au champagne - Opera in Vienna
Opera Road Trip
Opera Road Trip is Operavision’s new two-year podcast series, a journey through the 17 countries that currently partner with OperaVision, discovering their operatic history and current relationship with the artform, and meeting along the way young talents finding their voice and seasoned professionals who have devoted their lives to the stage, discovering the diverse paths that have led them to opera and the enduring belief in its relevance, past, present, and future. Opera Road Trip’s fourth episode is dedicated to opera in Vienna. We hear from Kristine Tornquist and Jury Everhartz,...
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The Three Mezzos - Opera in Ireland
Opera Road Trip
Opera Road Trip is Operavision’s new two-year podcast series, a journey through the 17 countries that currently partner with OperaVision, discovering their operatic history and current relationship with the artform, and meeting along the way young talents finding their voice and seasoned professionals who have devoted their lives to the stage, discovering the diverse paths that have led them to opera and the enduring belief in its relevance, past, present, and future. Opera Road Trip’s third episode is dedicated to opera in Ireland. We hear from Rosetta Cucchi, Artistic Director of...
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Slava Ukraini - Opera in Ukraine
Opera Road Trip
Opera Road Trip’s second episode is dedicated to opera in Ukraine. We hear from Anna Gadetzka, program direction of Open Opera Ukraine about creating alternatives to the state-run opera factories; from Vasyl Vovkun, director of the Lviv National Opera, Bogdan Strutynsky, director of the National Operetta of Ukraine and Galyna Grygorenko, first deputy minister of culture of Ukraine, about the country’s operatic heritage and repertoire and about the current challenges of running opera companies. To learn more about opera in Ukraine, visit OperaVision.eu features work from its five Ukrainian...
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First stop: Italia
Opera Road Trip
Opera Road Trip is Operavision’s new two-year podcast series, a journey through the 17 countries that currently partner with OperaVision, discovering their operatic history and current relationship with the artform, and meeting along the way young talents finding their voice and seasoned professionals who have devoted their lives to the stage, discovering the diverse paths that have led them to opera and the enduring belief in its relevance, past, present, and future. Opera Road Trip’s first episode is, dutifully, dedicated to opera in Italy. We hear from Danila Grassi, a young...
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Oper Frankfurt: becoming an extraordinary artist
Opera Road Trip
In the final episode of this Next Generation series, we ask two experts working at Oper Frankfurt to share their understanding of the challenges facing young artists entering a programme. From the shock of that first time on the main stage, to finding a common language when it comes to technique, and finally allowing the personality to really shine through, Felice Venanzoni and Hedwig Fassbender offer candid advice on all aspects of nurturing operatic talent with sensitivity and respect. Watch now on OperaVision with Leonardo Sanchez from Young Artists at the Palau de les Arts...
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Rossini Opera Festival: walking a tightrope
Opera Road Trip
This month, we’re joined by young artists Chiara Boccabella and Francesco Leone in the run up to the Accademia Rossiniana Alberto Zedda this summer. They share thoughts on preparing for auditions (the key lies in character!), and how exactly to bring lightness and joy to singing Rossini so that it feels (almost) effortless. Watch now on OperaVision with Leonardo Sanchez from Young Artists at the Palau de les Arts from Oper Frankfurt on audition training for the Paul Hindemith Orchestra Academy Music Extracts all from Rossini's Il Viaggio a...
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Palau de les Arts: looking to the future
Opera Road Trip
This month, we are back with our emerging artists from Palau de les Arts in Valencia, where we discover how steady and slow is the key to vocal progression, how going beyond your comfort zone is necessary when hustling for work, and which key elements to take from a programme into the professional world. Mezzo-soprano Laura Orueta takes her first professional steps and soprano Iria Goti looks ahead to her final stretch in Valencia and life beyond. Music Introduction and closing from Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Mozart): Overture I Hate Music; Tavouk Guenksis;...
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Oper Frankfurt: survival tactics for young artists
Opera Road Trip
This month, we’re back at Oper Frankfurt following up with our four young artists, where juggling roles and dealing with vocal fatigue are part of life at the height of a busy season. Our singers share stories of setting boundaries, juggling repertoire, and how sometimes saying no is essential to protecting both vocal and mental health. Featuring sopranos Nombulelo Yende and Clara Hyoyoung Kim, mezzo-soprano Helene Feldbauer, and baritone Jarrett Porter. Watch now on Opera Vision from Young Artists at the Palau de les Arts from Oper Frankfurt on audition training for...
info_outlineFrom one young soprano making audition videos in a shelter in Kyiv while the war swept through Ukraine, to another using an international singing competition to showcase her talent, we meet emerging artists from four leading young artist programmes across Europe. In this episode, we dip into each programme, from Opera for Peace in Rome, to the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, on to Palau de les Arts in Valencia and Oper Frankfurt. As well as hearing from the artists about how their expectations matched reality, we feature insights from experts such as Lawrence Brownlee, and learn how the programmes are nurturing and developing the next generation of talent.View the OperaVision website hereWatch now on OperaVision:An evening of Operetta & Zarzeuela from the Centre de Perfeccionament del Palau de les Arts (until 16.03.23)Music extracts:Introduction & closing: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Mozart): OvertureManon (Massenet) aria Manon: Adieu, notre petite table, Violeta SamonIl Viaggio a Reims (Rossini) Overture with permission from the Rossini Opera FestivalNorma (Bellini) aria Norma: Casta diva, Nombulelo Yende live, Moniuszko Vocal CompetitionL’Incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi) duet Nero & Poppea: Pur ti miro, Ketevan Chuntishvili & Angelord Blaise, accompanied by Kamal Khan
