Lyric Opera Studio Weimar

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Lyric Opera Studio Weimar (LOSW) is a comprehensive opera training program designed for emerging professional singers considering a career in Europe, with a focus on the German theater system.

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Under the leadership of General Director Damon Nestor Ploumis, LOSW develops singers through intense daily German language and diction coaching, training in singing, movement, rehearsal process and role study, as well as master classes, individual lessons and stagecraft instruction. In addition, participants will benefit from sessions in audition techniques and career management. Students’ participation in the program culminates with the performance of a role in a fully-staged Mozart opera. Singers are able to develop the necessary skills to audition and work as artists in the most important sphere of opera - the German-speaking world.

Our Faculty consists of European and North American professionals with active careers in leading theaters across Europe. Students benefit from the Faculty’s breadth of experience in workshops and instruction in successful audition techniques, resumé building for the German theater system and a realistic vision of being a singer in Germany.

As a summer training studio in the heart of the historic cultural center of Weimar, LOSW sets the well-prepared singer on the path to establishing a career. Since the Studio’s inaugural year in 2008, many LOSW alumni have secured professional engagements in such theaters as the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semper Oper Dresden, Glyndebourne, Zürich Opera, English National Opera, Festival d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence, Finnish National Opera as well as numerous theaters throughout Germany.