Jodie,
I am at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville. They have a great graduate studio program. The school does a lot of work with the Knoxville Opera. We have a lot of master classes, and guest coaches from professional companies who come in to work with our students for a week. One we have on a regular basis (once or twice a year) works with the Metropolitan Opera as a coach/accompanist as well.
Our school Opera director is also director or artistic director of the Des Moines summer program and was previously the artistic director at "the point" in Arkansas for 15 years. Every graduate student gets weekly coachings with staff. We have some really great voice teachers with really great contacts. All of the facutly is very supportive, encouraging and helping to each person become a successful artist.
Feel free to e-mail me privately if you wish. :-)
Laura
>Can anyone recommend any fantastic graduate schools >that have great opera performance programs? I would >really appreciate anyone's opinions, I am looking into >grad schools all over the world so let me know :) >Thanks so much! >Jodie
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