TCO Resident Artists Training Program
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Training Program
Tri-Cities Opera offers aspiring opera singers a unique blend of instruction and practical experience through its Resident Artist Training Program, providing the wide variety of skills required of a professional opera singer. Tri-Cities Opera prefers to cast all roles with members of the Resident Artist Training Program. Areas of instruction may include vocal pedagogy, vocal coaching, acting, stage craft, movement, diction, role interpretation and audition skills.
Instruction occurs at the company-owned rehearsal and second-stage performance space, in the private studios of our artistic staff and in our rented mainstage 1,500 seat performance venue, the Broome County Forum Theatre.
Generally, one workshop or masterclass style sessions of three hours is conducted weekly (when the company is not in full rehearsal for the mainstage productions), for a total of 12 sessions annually. In addition, Resident Artists receive practical experience as they rehearse and perform leading and minor roles for the three mainstage productions. Resident Artists also receive instruction and training while preparing roles for second stage productions as well as for our touring educational outreach program.
The TCO artistic staff consists John Di Costanzo, Music and Associate Artistic Director, who coaches privately, teaches classes both at TCO and at Binghamton University, as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music for the MM in Opera Program, and conducts all mainstage productions for the 2010-11 season. TCO will engage Stage Directors for each mainstage production of the 2010-11 season.
Selected Graduates of the Resident Artist Training Program
- Richard Leech - Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, San Francisco
Opera, Paris Opera - Judy Berry* - Leipzig Opera, Wuppertaler Bϋhnen, Amsterdam Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Edmonton Opera, Eutin Festival, Perth Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Teatro de la Opera, LA Opera
- Christopher Hux* - Wexford Festival
- Marietta Simpson* - Houston Grand Opera
- Kenneth Shaw - New York City Opera
- Cynthia Clarey - Deutsche Oper Berlin
- Jake Gardner - Cologne Opera, Vienna State Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre
- Jill Gardner - Lyric Opera of Chicago, Florida Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Hawaii Opera Theater
- Richard Taylor - Covent Garden
- Michael Lockley* - New York City Opera
- Christopher Arneson* - Santa Fe Opera
- Julia Anne Wolf* - Washington & New York City Opera
- Guido Le Brón - Wexford Festival, Metropolitan Opera,
Washington Opera, Los Angeles Opera - Todd Geer* - Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera
- Linda Larson - New York City Opera
- Timothy LeFebvre* - San Francisco Opera, Indianapolis
Opera, Sarasota Opera - Marlin Miller - Lyric Opera of Chicago, La Scala, Amsterdam Opera, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh Festival, Bühnen Graz
- Lori-Kaye Miller - New York City Opera, Minnesota Opera,
Boheme Opera - Victor Robertson – Dallas Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Minnesota Opera, Manitoba Opera, Arizona Opera, Spoleto Festival U.S.A.
- Jeremy Galyon – Metropolitan Opera
- Raul Melo – Metropolitan Opera, Dallas Opera, New York City Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Frankfurt Opera
- Aaron St. Clair Nicholson* - Glimmerglass Opera, Metropolitan Opera
* also a graduate of the MM-Opera Program
Congratulations to our 2010-2011 Career Grants winners:
Stuart & Jeanne Wilson Award
$2,500
George L. Hinman Award
$2,500
Roselyn Welton Best Award
$1,500
Carlotta Savoca Memorial Award $1,000
Carlotta Savoca Memorial Award $1,000
Tri-Cities Opera Guild Award
$1,200
Tri-Cities Opera Guild Award
$1,200
Tri-Cities Opera Guild Award
$1,200
Second Stage Productions
Binghamton University
Masters of Music in Opera with TCO
Resident Artist Training Program
TCO and Binghamton University Work together to provide a Master of Music in Opera Program in conjunction with the Resident Artist Program.
About Binghamton University
Binghamton University has earned a place as one of the top-ranking public universities in the nation. Situated on a wooded, rolling hillside, Binghamton University enrolls more than 12,000 students. The Department of Music's distinguished faculty offers an exciting curriculum leading to the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music, Master of Arts and Master of Music degrees.
Master of Music in Opera
Since 1979, Binghamton University has joined with Tri-Cities Opera to create a unique and exceptional program combining practical studies, an academic track, and professional experience leading to the Master of Music degree in Opera. The artist-teachers of the faculty bring the wide experience of long and continuing careers in opera to the program. Students complete a minimum of 36 graduate credit hours in music courses including the master classes of the Tri-Cities Opera Resident Artist Training Program, studio voice, theory, history, lyric diction, coaching, vocal literature, movement and acting.
Oratorio
The 170-member Binghamton University Chorus performs major choral works with orchestra each year. Students enrolled in the MM Opera program are encouraged to audition as soloists.
Binghamton University Voice Faculty
Mary Burgess
John Di Costanzo
Thomas Goodheart
Diane Richardson
Courses Offered
- Voice Lessons and Vocal Coaching
- Voice Master Class
- Lyric Diction
- Languages
- Vocal Pedagogy
- Vocal Literature and Interpretation
- Stage Combat
- Dance/Stage Movement
- Music History
- Music Theory
Financial Aid
Resident Artists pursuing the Master of Music degree in Opera are eligible for graduate assistantships which include generous stipends and tuition scholarships. Graduate assistants are assigned duties according to their capabilities and the department's needs. Assignments may include teaching individual voice classes, assisting faculty with ensembles and academic courses and general administrative duties.