Vocal Institutes

Opera Institute

The MMF Opera Institute offers passionate young singers a program of varied and intensive training designed to develop the full scope of skills necessary in the professional arena.

The Opera Institute is designed to give singers "real-time" experience learning and producing professional-level operas on stage with an orchestra. Participants work with renowned faculty, conductors, stage directors, coaches, and voice teachers from prominent institutions including the Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Glimmerglass, Florida Grand Opera, the Bolshoi, and the Royal Philharmonic, among others. Each session concludes with full-scale productions with the MMF Orchestra, prepared by our production team of professional directors, designers, and costumers. Many performances are reviewed by South Florida's arts critics. Following the festival participants have the option of purchasing a professional video recording.

In addition to performing in MMF opera productions, singers receive weekly vocal lessons, professional coachings, and a breadth of performance opportunities including opera aria, musical theater, and Zarzuela at a variety of venues across South Florida such as The Betsy Hotel-South Beach, the New World Center, and many others.

Apprentice Program

Opera Productions:
Carmen | By Georges Bizet
A Midsummer Night’s Dream | By Benjamin Britten

Designed for the advanced collegiate or pre-professional singer, the MMF Apprentice Artist Program provides singers the experience of preparing and performing a role in a full-scale opera production. The program and productions are designed to reflect the standards and practices of a professional opera company. Apprentice singers are expected to arrive with their assigned role learned, memorized, and off-book.

Participants are also guaranteed participation in at least two masterclasses. Along with weekly voice lessons and coachings, Apprentice singers attend intensive masterclasses, seminars and lectures covering a range of topics including navigating the world of young artist programs, career management, and musicianship. Past Masterclasses have included Christine Goerke, Michael Heaston, Waren Jones, Linda Watson, Alan Held, Eglise Gutierrez, Bradley Moore, and Anthony Manoli, as well as our resident faculty of conductors, directors, vocal instructors, and coaches.

Baroque Institute

Opera Production: L'orfeo | By Claudio Monteverdi

The Baroque Institute is a personalized summer intensive designed to emphasize the study and application of vocal technique, overall musical development, and performance practice of the Baroque Repertoire. Participants learn to apply the necessary skills of a successful career by study, observation, and real performance experience. Participants are assigned roles to be performed in the Baroque productions outlined above. Opera productions will be performed with a chamber orchestra. With initiatives to launch artists into the next level of personal development, Participants also follow a high-level curriculum of daily instruction in languages and diction, recitative, performance practice, score study, movement, daily small-size masterclasses with MMF faculty, and more. Participants may also perform in additional productions in chorus or as covers; all participants are guaranteed at least one additional performance or public masterclass outside their assigned role, which may include local concerts of Opera Arias, Musical Theater and Zarzuela, and are guaranteed participation in at least two masterclasses, in addition to their daily class.

Highlights of the Baroque Institute:

• Role preparation and performance in Baroque opera production with orchestra.

• Instruction in Baroque language, diction, recitative, performance practice.

• Daily master class opportunities with MMF's distinguished faculty.

• Coaching opportunities with opera faculty from the world's leading institutions.

• Additional performance opportunities including Opera Aria, Musical Theater, and Zarzuela Concerts.

• Eligible for future MMF paid professional productions and events in our Alumni Division.

CCM Opera Bootcamp

Opera Production: The Magic Flute | By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (CCM) Opera Bootcamp is an intense and dynamic program designed to develop the interaction between conductor, orchestra and singer. The skills taught at the CCM Opera Bootcamp can be applied quickly and effectively to have great impact on your success as an artist. If you are an aspiring conductor, singer, or composer… we want YOU!

Participants gain experience learning and producing professional operas on-stage with a full orchestra. Participants work with renowned faculty, conductors, stage directors, coaches, and voice teachers from prominent institutions including the Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Glimmerglass, Florida Grand Opera, the Bolshoi, and the Royal Philharmonic, among others. Singers follow a high-level curriculum of daily instruction in languages and diction, recitative, performance practice, score study, movement, small-size masterclasses with MMF faculty, and more.

Vocal Collaborative Piano Institute

A select group of pianists will have the opportunity to participate in the Vocal Collaborative Piano Institute on full scholarship with housing. Pianists interested in gaining knowledge and experience in the operatic field as vocal coaches, accompanists, repetiteurs, assistant conductors and prompters will have the unique opportunity to study and work alongside leading professionals from the opera industry.

2022 Faculty

*Faculty is subject to change

TUITION AND FEES

Apprentice Program $3,750.00
Baroque Institute $3,750.00
CCM Opera Bootcamp $2,500.00
Registration Fee $250.00

HOUSING FEES

Apprentice Program and Baroque Institute

• Quad, 4 people per apartment. 2 people per room: $1,000.00

• Double, 2 people per apartment, 1 person per room: $2,000.00

• Entire Apartment: $4,000.00

Tradewinds Apartment Hotel is directly across the street from Miami Music Festival’s rehearsal spaces and less than a 5 minute walk to the beach. Miami residents who choose to reside at home do not pay housing fees. 

VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Video of Performances: MMF will record each opera production for participants to use. Please note that creation of these high-quality professional recordings can take up to several months to create a multi-camera angled product.

Photos of Performances: MMF will take photos of dress rehearsals, performances, and sometimes staging or music rehearsals. The items can and will be used for promotion of concerts and in future advertisements. MMF will give you access to all official photos taken at the festival by our staff after the conclusion of the festival. These photos will be watermarked with the MMF Logo. You are welcome to use these photos for social media, website, or other self-promotional use. However, you may not alter, crop, or remove the MMF official logo from the photo.

HOW TO APPLY

APPLICATION DEADLINES:

Singers and Collaborative Pianists - apply here.
Interns and Assistant Directors - apply here.

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS

• All singers should prepare two (2) contrasting arias

• Video recordings should be recorded during the last year and must not contain any audio edits

  • Video Solos and Excerpts can be in different links and takes, Please make sure video links are not set to private.

APPLICATION DEADLINES

• February 15, 2022

Audition Dates:

What Makes MMF Different from other Opera Festivals?

Alumni Division – MMF is the only training program that exclusively hires its alumni for performance opportunities outside of the summer festival. It is our goad to further advance the career’s of our artists through this program

Our Faculty & Staff – MMF Opera Institute faculty and staff represent some of the finest experts in the industry and are selected based on artistic merit and eagerness to work with young musicians. Participants can expect to work with renowned vocal experts from the world's leading institutions including the Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand, Glimmerglass, Pittsburgh Opera, Florida Grand, among others.

Our Orchestra – The MMF Opera Institute utilizes the MMF Opera Orchestra for all mainstage opera productions. While many programs claim to use an orchestra, the majority use a small chamber ensemble. The MMF Opera Orchestra is dedicated to MMF Opera Institute productions. 

Production Value – The Opera Institute mounts professional-level, full-scale productions, prepared by the MMF production team of professional directors, lighting and set designers, and costumers. Participants perform before large public audiences and many shows are reviewed by South Florida's arts critics.  

Education – Our vocal faculty and staff prepare students as if they are participants in a top-tier young artist program. In order to ensure everyone receives proper time and attention, unprepared singers may lose their roles. This allows the staff to focus on bringing out the highest level of artistry from every singer in the program instead of granting extra time to unprepared singers to make them “performance ready.”

Cost – MMF is able to offer more opportunity than any other program for less cost in large part because of its non-profit status and generous donors who support the festival.  Every dollar received in tuition, donations, grants and ticket sales goes directly to the program, ensuring the highest quality of education and performance opportunities for the participants.

Career Institute – MMF is one of the only educational institutions that offers the immersive Career Institute as well as practical career forums open to all participants. The Career Institute aims to give participants functional career skills to take charge of their artistic careers in an evolving economy.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY AS TO STUDENTS

The Miami Music Institute admits students of any race, color, creed, sex, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, family responsibility, national origin, ancestry, handicap, or religion to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the Institute. It does not discriminate in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs or any other Institute-administered programs.