Don Giovanni Opera Studio 2023
Highlights from our first annual Opera Studio, held at Teatro Miela (Trieste, Italy), from July 3rd-10th 2023
Professional indoor and outdoor photoshoots
All participants took part in two professional photoshoots for their portfolios as part of our work on branding, career-development and marketing. These included headshots and publicity photos.
Report of the event on Italian television
Representatives from Italian broadcasting corporation RAI attended and filmed part of the performance; excerpts were then broadcast in a report on the Opera Studio.
Press interview and marketing opportunities
The course concluded with a 1:1 interview with local press representatives for each participant, filmed both for broadcast and for participants' own marketing purposes.
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Twelve young artists in Trieste for Mozart's Don Giovanni
The initiative was brought to life by OperUs Academy, an organisation born to cultivate and support classical music talent around the world.
A microcosm of the world on the stage of the Miela. The 12 young and talented operatic artists have come to Trieste from 9 different countries to stage Mozart's Don Giovanni. The initiative was brought to life by OperUs Academy, an organisation born to cultivate and support classical music talent around the world. The result is a performance of selected scenes - known as an Opera Studio - onstage in Trieste.
Fiorenza Badila Costantini, mezzo-soprano and Manager-Director of OperUs: "It's a formative experience for this group of young artists who come from all over the world... It's important for them to rehearse and make their debut in a role."
The idea was born of similar projects they experienced abroad, in London and San Francisco; brought back to a city which, they say, has enormous potential.
The singers come from France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, but also from America, South Korea, Israel, Russia and Hong Kong.
"What language do you speak?"
"At the start we expected it to be English, but we later discovered they all also picked up Italian so quickly!"
Playing alongside them was the Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro Verdi di Trieste. The young artists' debut came after a week of rehearsals and study. And, after all this effort, let us let the music speak for itself
09/07/2023 Dario Ronzoni / RAI FVG
Faculty 2023
Barbara Frittoli
Soprano
Luca Pisaroni
Bass-baritone
Antonella Costantini
Pianist & Music Director of OperUs
Romolo Gessi
Conductor
Ilaria Zanetti
Character Development Coach
Fiorenza Badila
Manager Director of OperUs
Rachele Castellano
Italian Language Coach
Moments
Clips & interviews
Trieste, Italy
Nestled on the Adriatic coast between Venice to the south and Slovenia and Croatia to the northeast, Trieste is a beautiful maritime city with a rich multicultural history and artistic life.
From its harmonious synthesis of Italian and Austrian architecture to its multiple theatres, concert halls, historic coffee roasteries and delicious cuisine, Trieste's welcoming atmosphere and sophisticated cultural offerings, as well as its long history as a cultural meeting point make it the perfect base for our opera studio, offering participants the opportunity of a European debut at the heart of the continent.