www.georgsoltiaccademia.org Repetiteurs Masterclasses The Georg Solti Accademia announces LWV¿IWK6ROWL3HUHWWL5pSpWLWHXUV0DVWHUFODVVHV in Barcelona, 2 | 10 April 2013 The Georg Solti Accademia Répétiteur’s Masterclasses are unique in the music world, and have become the go-to intensive course for aspiring répétiteurs internationally. Featured last year on BBC 2’s series Maestro at the Opera, the course offers an immersion in preparing singers for operatic performance, with an incomparable faculty of teachers including Sir Richard Bonynge, Pamela Bullock, Jonathan Papp and Audrey Hyland. This year the President of the Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundations, Ms Elsa Peretti (the pre-eminent designer for Tiffany), has made it possible for the course to be run in Elsa’s elective city of Barcelona, in collaboration with the Theatre Akademia, where WKHUpSpWLWHXU¶V¿QDOFRQFHUWZLOOWDNHSODFHRQ$SULODW Six outstanding young pianists, from $XVWUDOLD)UDQFH*UHHFH6SDLQDQGWKH8., will gather in Barcelona in April with six talented singers, all alumni of the Georg Solti Accademia’s Bel Canto course, to focus on this vital, but often hidden, craft. A répétiteur is the singer’s key ally in achieving their performance, and essential to any opera production. They are the ultimate multi-taskers of the opera world, and must be constantly alert to vocal performance, musicality, language, style and nuance, while bringing the whole orchestral score alive at the piano. No wonder so many of them go on to become great opera conductors – Georg Solti, Riccardo Muti, Valery Gergiev and Sir Antonio Pappano to name but four. This year the faculty includes the legendary 6LU5LFKDUG%RQ\QJH3DPHOD%XOORFN from Chicago Lyric Opera, -RQDWKDQ3DSS, Director of the Georg Solti Accademia di Bel Canto, $XGUH\+\ODQG from the Royal Academy of Music. “One of my great joys is to work with the talented young singers, pianists and conductors for the Solti Accademia. The students chosen are of such a high standard and the WHDFKLQJLVHTXDOO\¿UVWFODVV7KH6ROWL$FFDGHPLDLVGRLQJ fabulous work both musically and technically.” SIR RICHARD BONYNGE solti perettiwww.georgsoltiaccademia.org Repetiteurs Masterclasses From 23 June-14 July 2013, the *HRUJ6ROWL$FFDGHPLDGL%HO&DQWR holds its singers course in Castiglione della Pescaia, where Solti spent his summers, with a faculty that will include 5HQDWD6FRWWR5LFKDUG%RQ\QJHDQG'HQQLV2¶1HLOO. Launching the Accademia’s 10th anniversary in October, the faculty remove to Juilliard School of Music in New York for an intensive series of Accademia masterclasses with Sir Richard Bonynge (6-10 October 2013). Since 2005, Elsa Peretti, President of the Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundations, has strongly desired and supported the Solti Accademia. Both Foundations share with the Accademia’s President, Lady Valerie Solti, a particular approach to the nurturing of young artists: of central importance is high quality training in bel canto singing, and a focus on the vital work of the répétiteurs. Key to their vision is a special location, where talent and DUWLVWLFFUHDWLYLW\FDQ¿QGLWVIXOOH[SUHVVLRQ In supporting the Solti Accademia’s Répétiteurs’ course, the Peretti Foundations are keeping alive the legacy of Sir Georg Solti, who began his career as a répétiteur before going on to become one of the 20th century’s major forces in music. TEACHING STAFF RÉPÉTITEURS SINGERS 5LFKDUG%RQ\QJH$&&%( Laila Barnat France Christina Gansch Austria Artistic Director of Vancouver Opera, Michalis Angelakis Greece Iurii Samoilov Ukraine 0XVLFDO'LUHFWRURI$XVWUDOLDQ2SHUD Jonathon Swinard United Kingdom Luis Gomes 3RUWXJDO James Sherlock United Kingdom Rachel Kelly Ireland -RQDWKDQ3DSS Roderigo de Vera Spain Sarah-Jane Lewis United Kingdom Artistic Director of the Georg Solti Darren Saady Australia Simon Dyer United Kingdom Accademia di Bel Canto 3DPHOD%XOORFN Chicago Lyric Opera $XGUH\+\ODQG 5R\DO$FDGHP\RI0XVLF 5REHUWD%LRQGL Italian Language Coach 7KHUpSpWLWHXU¶V¿QDOFRQFHUW will take place at 20.00 on 9 April in the Theatre Akademia, Avenida Diagonales 467, Barcelona www.nandoperettifound.org solti perettiwww.georgsoltiaccademia.org Repetiteurs Masterclasses Created in 2004 to honour the memory of the legendary Hungarian orchestra conductor Sir Georg Solti, the academy named after him today represents one of the most eloquent DQGH[FOXVLYHWUDLQLQJRSSRUWXQLWLHVIRU\RXQJRSHUDVLQJHUVDQGUpSpWLWHXUVZKR have reached a turning point in their careers. Since its foundation it has provided training to over one hundred promising talents, many of whom have undertaken important professional careers and obtained prestigious engagements in some of the most renowned festivals (Glyndebourne and Santa Fe) or at major international opera houses (as in the case of the assistant chorus master at the Sydney Opera House and the UHVLGHQWUpSpWLWHXURIWKH5R\DO2SHUD+RXVHDW&RYHQW*DUGHQ (DFK\HDUWKH$FFDGHPLDDGPLWVRQO\VLQJHUVDQGUpSpWLWHXUVVHOHFWHGDPRQJ hundreds of candidates from all over the world. The professional yet simultaneously authentic atmosphere that characterises the work of the Accademia helps to reinforce and optimise the exchange between students and masters, tutors and language teachers. The Accademia aims to be a tool for disseminating this important inheritance and that is why great artists such as Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Frederica von Stade, Sir Thomas Allen DQG$QWRQLR3DSSDQRKDYHSODFHGWKHPVHOYHVDWWKH$FFDGHPLD¶VGLVSRVDOLQRUGHU to share their own experience of training as young artists with future generations of performers. To establish itself internationally as a centre of excellence IRUVLQJHUVDQGUpSpWLWHXUVDQGSUHSDUHWKHPIRUWKHLUODXQFK in the professional realm is the main objective of the Georg Solti Accademia..