Summer Opera Workshop
A response to pay-to-sing summer programs, CVAC's Summer Opera Workshops are produced at-cost and are opportunities to prepare and stage a full role, as well as explore and apply a specific acting style.
The program runs 6-8 weeks, beginning with individual and ensemble coachings, followed by acting workshops and staging rehearsals. All rehearsals take place during weekday evenings, daytime Saturdays, and Sunday afternoons.
2019 – Handel's Alcina
Stage Director: Sarah Edgar
Music Director: Beth Parker
Alcina was staged with Baroque Gesture and Movement based on based on the gestural acting/oratorical technique of the 17th and 18th centuries.
2018 – Mozart's La finta giardiniera
Stage Director: Rose Freeman
Conductor: Alexandra Enyart
Vocal Coach: Elizabeth Parker
Language Coach: Roberta Terchi-Nocentini
Finta was staged in the style of Neo-Commedia,
a contemporary application of commedia dell'arte principles and archetypes.
2017 – Adamo's Little Women
Stage Director: Rose Freeman
Conductor: Catherine O'Shaughnessy
Vocal Coach: Elizabeth Parker
Little Women was staged in the style of Chicago realism, utilizing Bogart's and Landau's Viewpoints methodology.
