About us

Opera (e)Studio takes shape when the professionals in charge of the programming and the selection of deals in the auditoriums associated observed that the new generations of singers that are presented to the calls, once they have completed their musical training, are not fully prepared to comply with the requirements of the theatres today. Both the directors and the public are increasingly demanding and sing well by itself is not enough: the singers must also be credible in the role that they represent, act, make us cry or laugh, move smartly, and be in shape to be able to resist physically on the stage.

Opera (e)Studio is a training project aimed at young opera singers under the age of 32 years who have completed their formal education, but they have not debuted yet and require a comprehensive training to meet the demands of the current labour market in the european audiences, to enhance their employability. Participants are selected through auditions international made in the european cities associated, after a general call, which is published in specialized networks as well as in print media and digital to maximize your outreach. Then, the selected travel to Tenerife to attend an intensive course of one month duration that addresses all the disciplines of the world of opera and taught international professionals of recognized prestige. The participants produce the opera selected following the rhythm of a theatre and premiered within the season of the Opera de Tenerife. The artistic team to complete makes a tour of the production, estrenándola in the theatre associates as part of the season of the opera of the same. The project creates a framework for the singers, actors, artistic directors, and theatre are known, thus allowing the singers to understand the functioning of the sector and their internal links, to the time that acts as a showcase of their work, increasing their exposure and the internationalization of their careers. We intend to attract a young audience through activities designed solely to bring you closer to the world of opera.

OPERA (E)STUDIO is...

➢ An exciting project that faces new challenges within the field of Opera.

➢ A proposal of excellence, which contemplates the realization of opera titles, but in addition to power a new concept committed to the creation, production, and professional development of young artists.

➢ A program committed to the creation of new audiences for the opera, by using novel strategies of promotion.

➢ A program open to the participation in the field of professional disciplines in the area of singing, theater, and music.

➢ A place of production and generation of proposals creative current.

➢ A centre for research, training and study of artistic practices.

➢ A program open to the thought, reflection, artistic creation and contemporary cultural, linked to the opera.

➢ A project committed to the training, promotion and education of the languages and discourses of contemporary opera.

➢ A project that drives the professional singing.

EQUIPO

Jose Luis Rivero

Auditorio de Tenerife,

Artistic Director of the Tenerife Auditorium and directly responsible for the areas of programming, production, education and development of the public. An international consultant in processes of internationalization of culture, development of public and strategic plans. The fields of action are focused on the opera, contemporary dance, theatre ibero-american and the theory and management of Culture.

A degree in Spanish Studies and a degree in Tourism, has several programs master’s degree in cultural management. A professor at several universities, has developed its side a researcher in the fields of literature, theater, and dance, and cultural management, with an extensive resume as a speaker at national and international meetings. Always linked to the world of Culture and Education, both in the public and private sectors, he has held positions of state responsibility in Spain: President of the Spanish Network of Theaters, Auditoriums, Circuits and Festivals of public ownership, President of the educational Network of concert Halls, and symphony Orchestras, he has been a member of the state Council of the performing Arts and of Music, member editor of the state Plan of the Dance and is a member of the state commissions of Music, Dance, Training, or Internationalization. Member of the european programme ADESTE (Audience Developer: Skills and Training in Europe) and Mentor of the University of Deusto for Expert Audiences, Cultural and Expert in Strategy to the Public. He is an active member of organisations such as Opera Europa, WAVE-Opera in Latin america, RESEO (European Network for Opera and Dance Education), International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (IETM), Network euro-Latin american Performing Arts REDELAE, Network, open To the sky dance in unconventional spaces and the Association of cultural managers of the Canary islands.

Giulio Zappa

Opera(e)Studio, Opera de Tenerife

Start your training as an accompanying pianist in the singing classes of Bianca Maria Casoni in Milan. It is perfect with Aldo Ciccolini and Irwin Gage. With the latter, specializes in vocal repertoire of chamber music, which has always been his great passion. Since 1996, he has carried out an intense concert activities as a teacher of singing and piano accompanist in numerous theatres and festivals in Europe and Asia. He has collaborated with different generations of artists lyric Italian and international, as Katia Ricciarelli, Elena Obraztsova, Piero Cappuccilli, Leo Nucci, Enzo Dara, Mariella Devia, Michele Pertusi, Gregory Kunde, Juan Diego Florez, Daniela Barcellona and different artists of the new generations. He has also collaborated with stage directors and orchestra of the size of A. Zedda, Lü Jia, P. Fournillier, Michele Mariotti, M. Martone, D. Fo, G. Strehler, M. Hampe, P. Pizzi, Graham Vick, etc He has dedicated the last two years teaching for piano accompanists and singers, and has been invited by Scuola dell’opera di Bologna, Teatro Real, Meitar Opera Studio in Tel Aviv, Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid or the Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow. In 2013, he was appointed Director Artístico Opera (e)Studio, built-in Opera de Tenerife, which was created for the artistic development and the projection of the young talents of opera. It is also responsible for the musical preparation of the singers. Among his appointments, recent, and future, it is worth noting a concert at the Wigmore Hall in London with Mariella Devia, recitals with Pietro Spagnoli and Olga Pretyatko in Pesaro, Peralada and Lausanne, the debut with a recital at the Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow, Don Pasquale at Glyndebourne and master classes in Moscow (Bolshoi Theatre) and the University of Jaén. He speaks Italian, Spanish, English, and Russian.

Giulio Zappa

Opera(e)Studio, Opera de Tenerife

Ópera de Tenerife

Since its opening in September 2003, Auditorium of Tenerife, it became the main engine the Island’s cultural, as well as a symbol of architectural and artistic society of tenerife. With a spectacular setting in addition to several rooms, it is able to accommodate more productions daring and large-scale that previously could not be performed in the Canary islands. With an avant-garde architecture, the work of renowned architect Santiago Calatrava, the Auditorium of Tenerife is a building downright impressive thanks to its curved profile, the shape of the wing and the facade is covered with a trencadís reminiscent of the style of Gaudi. Auditorio de Tenerife is the center of most important production of the Canary Islands, which is already known in the rest of Spain and in other countries with which we maintain important collaborations related to the opera. We are also linked to opera houses around the world to be a member of Opera Europa, Opera, Latin America. It’s also worth mentioning the work done by the Auditorium for the creation of new audiences through the production of their own, especially adapted to the public, youth and family, as well as a broad repertoire spanning from the titles most conventional to the most innovative and original. The project of Ópera de Tenerife – which includes the Cabildo de Tenerife through Auditorio de Tenerife – brings a breath of fresh air to the opera season with new features such as the International Singing Contest of Ópera de Tenerife, or the creation of Opera(e)Studio, an academy of comprehensive training that works with young singers, giving them the opportunity to train in all artistic disciplines and drama of the opera, by the staging of an opera produced by the Auditorium of Tenerife.