Megumi Hata

Megumi Hata

Inspiring the next generation

MASCARADE OPERA SEASON 2023/24

2024, Music assistant, Giovani Voci all’Opera, Teatro La Pergola, Firenze

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2024, Orchestral concert Giovani voci alla Fenice, Teatro La Fenice, Venice

2024, recital Il poeta e il libertino: due facce di un’era Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence

2023, Christmas Recital, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence

2023, Opera recital Mascarade, Florence

2023, Season opening recital, Meet the artists, Fondazione Mascarade Opera, Florence

PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS

2023, Don Giovanni, Theater Altenburg Gera Thüringen, Altenburg

2022, “Eight Songs for the Mad King” from Peter Maxwell Davies, Deutsches Nationaltheater, Weimar

2022, Die Fledermaus, Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, Weimar

2019, Le nozze di Figaro, Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, Weimar

EDUCATION

2021-2023, Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, postgraduate course (Konzertexamen Studium) song accompaniment studies. Opera coaching studies as a secondary school subject.

2019-2021, Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, advanced training course (Weiterbildungsstudium) studies in musical accompaniment.

2015-2018, Tokyo University of the Art, MA Pianosolo studies

2011-2014, Tokyo University of the Art, BA Pianosolo studies

The Florence Choral Course as an annual summer course, which thanks to our supporters is made entirely free for participants and dedicated to the study, performance and promotion of Italian choral music. Up to 25 singers from all over the world have the unique opportunity to come to Florence for in immersive period of daily rehearsals, choral technique workshops, individual singing lessons, archival tours, history lectures and masterclasses with world famous practitioners, including soprano Dame Emma Kirkby and director of Milan Cathedral Choir Maestro Massimo Palombella.
The week culminates in concert and ecclesiastical performances in some of Florence’s most iconic buildings, including Palazzo Tornabuoni, Santissima Annunciata and Santa Maria Novella, as well as a sung mass in the great cathedral of Milan.

In addition, the programme’s advanced choral course for aspiring professional singers provides students a unique opportunity to come to Florence for an intensive programme of study, rehearsals, masterclasses and performances, as well as historical lectures and tours in the heart of the most important city of Renaissance. 

In addition, the programme’s advanced choral course for aspiring professional singers provides students a unique opportunity to come to Florence for an intensive programme of study, rehearsals, masterclasses and performances, as well as historical lectures and tours in the heart of the most important city of Renaissance. 

HOW TO APPLY

Applications for the Florence Choral Course July 2024 will open on 1 January 2024.

To apply please send two recordings and your CV to thesacredmusicprogramme@mascaradeopera.com

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