Opera Studio

Volksoper Wien has made it a central project to keep music theatre in all its facets alive, up-to-date, young and top-class. The promotion of young artists must be an elementary component of this endeavour, because: The future begins today!

At the beginning of the 2022/23 season, the Christian Zeller Privatstiftung made it possible to establish a new opera studio at the Volksoper Wien. In this programme, six international singers and a pianist are accompanied in their studies and in their professional life for two years. They will receive regular coaching, masterclasses, acting, dance and language lessons as well as workshops to prepare them for the unique mental and physical challenges of everyday life as an artist. Auditions, tools for career management and, of course, the opportunity to take their first steps in their own opera studio productions, but also on the Volksoper stage are part of the programme as well. In this way, the Volksoper not only helps to shape the next generation of outstanding, intelligent, and flexible singers, but also to further the identity of the theatre.

But the creative power of the young studio members should also be able to unfold beyond this. The opera studio is a place where a lively and collective examination of music theatre takes place. The individuality of each member thus flows directly into the results of the work, into the search for new forms of performance, venues and perspectives on music theatre. This wide-ranging offer of the opera studio is intended to give the participating artists the opportunity to grow personally. Vocally, professionally, musically, as actors, but also in terms of content and as human beings. The Volksoper Wien wants to make its contribution to the further development of a professional image and the genre of music theatre with independent and stubborn personalities.

Accompany Mira Alkhovik (soprano), Hannah Fheodoroff (mezzo-soprano), Camila Aquilera Yáñez (mezzo-soprano), Seiyoung Kim (tenor), Trevor Haumschilt-Rocha (baritone), Smelo Mahlangu (bass-baritone) and Christopher Flaskamp (piano) on their journey in the first year of the 2nd generation of the Opera Studio and become the eyes and ears of the future of musical theater!