Basic music education and training courses
children's choir course
The Puccini Festival Children’s Choir was founded with the aim of offering young people high-level musical training within one of Italy’s most prestigious opera contexts, the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago.
The choir is a vocal and artistic workshop dedicated to discovering the voice as an expressive instrument and promoting the choral repertoire for children’s voices, with a particular focus on the great Italian operatic tradition and the musical heritage of Giacomo Puccini.
Through technical and interpretative study, young singers are introduced to musical and theatrical language, learning the fundamental skills for choral practice and participation in major opera and concert productions.
The main objectives of the course are therefore:
- training the voice and musical ear;
- training in choral singing and ensemble work;
- the development of stage and musical interpretation.
The children of the Puccini Festival Children’s Choir will participate in the operas Turandot, Tosca, and La Boheme, scheduled for the 72nd Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago in 2026.
Who is it for?
children/young people aged between 5 and 16
Course duration
Lessons with Maestro Sonia Franzese from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. according to the following schedule
November 25, 2025
December 2, 9, 16, 22, 2025
January 13, 20, and 27, 2026
February 3, 10, 24, 2026
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 2026
April 14, 21, 28, 2026
May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2026
Opportunity to participate in rehearsals and performances of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, Tosca, and La Boheme, scheduled for the 72nd edition of the Puccini Festival 2026 between June 23 and September 5, 2026.
Costs
the course is free of charge
SONIA FRANZESE - Bio
She graduated in Piano and Opera Singing and obtained a degree in Music and Performing Arts, Television, and New Media from the University of Turin, Faculty of DAMS. She also obtained a Master’s Degree in Performing Arts and Multimedia Production, Cinema and Media (Performing Arts) course with honors from the University of Turin.
Since 2010, he has been collaborating with La Scala Theater in Milan as choir master of the Voci Bianche choir directed by Maestro Bruno Casoni. With the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, as part of the project “La Scala fa Scuola, Un Coro in Città” (La Scala goes to school, A Choir in the City), he has been appointed teacher for the modules Vocal Technique, Elements of Musical Theater History, and Elements of Vocal Music History in the two-year course dedicated to Children’s Choir Conductors. He is still a teacher at the Accademia della Scala for the Children’s Choir.
An artist who has been present on the Italian and European music scene for many years, he began his career as a choir master in 2000, collaborating with Italian, Spanish, and French institutions and alongside great artists such as Leo Nucci, Tatiana Serjan, Alessandro Corbelli, and many others. He founded and regularly conducts the increasingly successful “Coro Sinfonico Reine Stimme” choir.
