Since 1952 Converse Opera 剧院 has been a jewel in the crown of the Petrie School of Music. Today’s Converse Opera 剧院 continues the tradition of excellence by offering professional-quality, fully-staged productions and beautiful sets and costumes.
At Converse Opera 剧院 we understand that a fulfilling and successful professional life in opera starts with rich, competitive experiences as a performer. We are committed to equipping students with a vast array of performance opportunities to build vital foundations in repertoire, style, 用语, 代理工作, and career development.
Performance 机会
Converse Opera 剧院 presents fully staged productions chosen from the diverse operatic canon. Student talent is featured in principal roles, chorus, orchestra, and technical support staff. Converse invites nationally prominent guest artist designers and singers to work alongside our opera students.
冬季和春季歌剧
Converse Opera 剧院 presents fully staged productions chosen from the diverse operatic canon. Student talent is featured in principal roles, chorus, orchestra, and technical support staff. Converse invites nationally prominent guest artist designers and singers to work alongside our opera students.
歌剧向前
The 歌剧向前 Series presents intimate, innovative and experimental works that challenge the definition of opera in the 21st Century. 在这些作品中, students engage in methods of performance that bend the conventions of traditional opera and explore cutting-edge trends in the business.
秋季歌剧场景
Students expand their resumes with traditional repertoire in Converse Opera 剧院’s annual 秋季歌剧场景 performance. This performance furnishes students with learned opera roles from a diverse range of theatrical styles and historical periods.
课程
In today’s operatic landscape, the one thing that sets an opera singer apart from the crowd is the level of acting skill. Contemporary producers and directors seek the “singing actor”- an artist who can communicate and craft a role as skillfully as she can sing it.
Converse Opera 剧院’s progressive opera curriculum prepares students for these new developments in the opera business.
歌剧车间
The 歌剧车间 expands and awakens the student’s artistic work as an actor in operatic performance. 学生将:
- Utilize standard acting techniques including Stanislavski, Hagen, Chekhov and Meisner;
- Participate in fun acting exercises to hone in on spontaneity;
- Discover career development strategies including audition techniques;
- Master opera roles through aria and scene work.
歌剧表演
This course provides the student singer with the tools needed to create characters who are believable, 诚实和令人信服. 学生将:
- Engage in musical and acting coaching;
- Complete character and song analyses in preparation for opera roles;
- Work with and learn from opera professionals in the field;
- Establish a disciplined rehearsal and practice process.