Season 2024/25

Season 2024/25

Inspiring the next generation

Luiza Willert

  • Luiza Willert, 1st Prize, 13th International Belcanto Competition Vincenzo Bellini, Paris, France
  • Daniils Pogoriless, "Gabriele Foresta Prize", Concorso Lirico Internazionale Ottavio Ziino 2024, Rome, Italy
  • Daniils Pogoriless, Belcore (role debut), L' elisir d'amore, Latvian National Opera 2024/25 season
  • Gabriel Fortunas, Dottore (role debut), Macbeth, Theater Heidelberg 2024/25 season
  • Caterina Meldolesi, Isolde (role debut), La Fiaba di Tristano (abridged version of Tristan und Isolde), Teatro del maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2024/25 season
  • Caterina Meldolesi, Maurya, (role debut), Mother (World Premiere), Teatro Municipale di Piacenza 2024/25 season
  • Caterina Meldolesi, Tosca (role debut), Tosca, Festival Puccini Dvorak, Palma de Mallorca

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