{"id":943,"date":"2025-11-20T11:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accademiapucciniana.it\/advanced-and-specialisation-courses\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:01:41","slug":"advanced-and-specialisation-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/accademiapucciniana.it\/en\/advanced-and-specialisation-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced and specialisation courses"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"943\" class=\"elementor elementor-943 elementor-233\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0cbd8d7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0cbd8d7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e03ecf e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5e03ecf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2dd2e11 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2dd2e11\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-709a09a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"709a09a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d66a911 elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"d66a911\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\topera singing course\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4062b2e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4062b2e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>[Update: <\/strong>the deadline has been extended to 16 February 2026]<br>The course aims to train professional opera singers who perform Puccini&#8217;s repertoire, providing them with a solid vocal, musical and dramatic education.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The teachers&#8217; objective is to explore certain specific aspects of the opera singer&#8217;s role, such as the ability to interpret a musical text using one&#8217;s voice as an instrument, either independently or according to the instructions given by the pianist and\/or conductor; to interpret the character linked to the theatrical text on stage, either independently or according to the instructions given by the stage director; to explore the style, interpretation and study of Puccini&#8217;s repertoire.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea0ee01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ea0ee01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">By June 2026, the Artistic Director will also hold auditions reserved for student singers, who will have the opportunity to perform solo roles in operas and concerts featured in the summer program of the 2026 Puccini Festival and the 2026 Puccini Month.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-17b212f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"17b212f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-beba188 elementor-widget-tablet_extra__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-n-accordion\" data-id=\"beba188\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;default_state&quot;:&quot;all_collapsed&quot;,&quot;max_items_expended&quot;:&quot;one&quot;,&quot;n_accordion_animation_duration&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;ms&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:400,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]}}\" data-widget_type=\"nested-accordion.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-n-accordion\" aria-label=\"Accordion. Open links with Enter or Space, close with Escape, and navigate with Arrow Keys\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<details id=\"e-n-accordion-item-1990\" class=\"e-n-accordion-item\" >\n\t\t\t\t<summary class=\"e-n-accordion-item-title\" data-accordion-index=\"1\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"e-n-accordion-item-1990\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='e-n-accordion-item-title-header'><div class=\"e-n-accordion-item-title-text\"> Who is it for? <\/div><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='e-n-accordion-item-title-icon'>\n\t\t\t<span class='e-opened' ><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-minus\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h384c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class='e-closed'><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-plus\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path 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target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.puccinifestival.it&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1763722641786000&amp;usg=AOvVaw19MYsv4zGp94PijtNgEAuI\"> www.puccinifestival.it<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<details id=\"e-n-accordion-item-1991\" class=\"e-n-accordion-item\" >\n\t\t\t\t<summary class=\"e-n-accordion-item-title\" data-accordion-index=\"2\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"e-n-accordion-item-1991\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='e-n-accordion-item-title-header'><div class=\"e-n-accordion-item-title-text\">  When does the call for applications expire? <\/div><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='e-n-accordion-item-title-icon'>\n\t\t\t<span class='e-opened' ><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-minus\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 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Ronconi, Claudio Scimone, Jeffrey Tate, Alberto Zedda, etc\u2026<br>After dominating the international scene in the bel canto repertoire (Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti), in recent seasons he has triumphed in: La Damnation de Faust with the San Francisco Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Welsh National Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw; Benvenuto Cellini with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Colin Davis;<br>Norma (Pollione) at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome conducted by Nagano, in Barcelona, Venice, Munich, Li\u00e8ge, and Bilbao; Das Lied von der Erde at Carnegie Hall in New York; Verdi&#8217;s Messa da Requiem in Lima, Palermo, and conducted by Chung in Florence; I vespri siciliani in Turin conducted by Noseda, in French in Naples, Bilbao, and Valencia; Les Huguenots in Strasbourg; Un ballo in maschera in Turin and Bologna; Verdi&#8217;s Otello at La Fenice in Venice, in Japan and at the Palazzo Ducale conducted by Chung, in Valencia conducted by Zubin Mehta, in Turin conducted by Noseda, in Genoa, Seville, Madrid, London, Pamplona, and Paris; Aida in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, at the Arena di Verona, and in Madrid; Peter Grimes conducted by Pappano at Santa Cecilia and in Valencia; Les Troyens with Pappano and McVicar at La Scala in Milan; La forza del destino conducted by Zubin Mehta in Valencia and Dresden; Il Trovatore in Venice, La Coru\u00f1a, and London; Luisa Miller in Li\u00e8ge; Cavalleria rusticana\/Pagliacci in Bilbao; Samson et Dalila in Turin, Valencia, Seville, Moscow, and at the Metropolitan in New York; Manon Lescaut in Bilbao, Turin, Barcelona, in Japan with the Rome Opera, and in Dallas; Andrea<br>Ch\u00e9nier in Rome and Bilbao; Turandot (Calaf) in concert in Tel Aviv conducted by Mehta and, directed by Zeffirelli, at the Arena di Verona.<br>He made his European debut as a conductor at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo with Maria di Rohan (released on DVD by Bongiovanni) and conducted Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice and a symphonic concert at the Op\u00e9ra de Nice.<br>Among his recent and upcoming engagements: Ernani in Lisbon, Piacenza, Ferrara, and Reggio Emilia; Turandot, Otello, Luisa Miller, and Andrea Ch\u00e9nier at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; La forza del destino at the Verdi Festival in Parma; Il Trovatore and Aida at the Los Angeles Opera; Turandot at the Real in Madrid.<br>at the Arena di Verona, the Op\u00e9ra de Paris, and the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago; Otello at the Liceu in Barcelona, the Vienna State Opera, Munich, Covent Garden in London, Dresden, Piacenza, Modena, Reggio Emilia, the Teatro dell&#8217;Opera in Rome, the Bellini in Catania, and the Col\u00f3n in Buenos Aires; Aida, Andrea Ch\u00e9nier, and Il Trovatore in Vienna; Le Proph\u00e8te in Berlin; Don Carlos in Li\u00e8ge; Messa da Requiem conducted by Zubin Mehta in Tel Aviv; Aida, Turandot, La fanciulla del west<br>and Die gro\u00dfe Stille in Hamburg; I Pagliacci in Dresden, Parma, Bologna, and Venice; Aida at the Cincinnati Opera, the Teatro dell&#8217;Opera in Rome, and the Arena di Verona; Les Troyens in Munich; Il Tabarro (Luigi) and Tosca at the Teatro dell&#8217;Opera in Rome conducted by Michele Mariotti; La<br>Juive and Andrea Ch\u00e9nier at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Billy Bud at the Vienna State Opera; Andrea Ch\u00e9nier at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and in Parma.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<details id=\"e-n-accordion-item-2721\" class=\"e-n-accordion-item\" >\n\t\t\t\t<summary class=\"e-n-accordion-item-title\" data-accordion-index=\"2\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"e-n-accordion-item-2721\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='e-n-accordion-item-title-header'><div class=\"e-n-accordion-item-title-text\"> Maria Pia Ionata - Bio <\/div><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='e-n-accordion-item-title-icon'>\n\t\t\t<span class='e-opened' ><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-minus\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h384c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class='e-closed'><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-plus\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H272V64c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32h-32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v144H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h144v144c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h32c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32V304h144c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/summary>\n\t\t\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2721\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ca41d99 e-con-full 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par excellence.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was followed by many other debuts in leading roles in the repertoire that suited her well, in Giacomo Puccini&#8217;s <em>Manon Lescaut, Turandot,<\/em> and <em>La Rondine<\/em>,<em> <\/em>Umberto Giordano&#8217;s <em>Andrea Ch\u00e9nier,<\/em> Francesco Cilea&#8217;s <em>Adriana Lecouvreur,<\/em> <em>Dialogues des Carm\u00e9lites <\/em>by Francis Poulenc<em>, Otello<\/em> and<em> Falstaff<\/em> by Giuseppe Verdi, with \u201cforays\u201d into the operettas<em> The Merry Widow<\/em> by Franz Leh\u00e1r and <em>Die Fledermaus<\/em> by Johann Strauss. <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the major theaters where she has performed are La Scala in Milan, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Teatro dell&#8217;Opera in Rome, the Vienna State Opera, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Frankfurt Opera, the Teatro Bellini in Catania, the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, the Finnish National Opera and Ballet in Helsinki, the Teatro Nacional de S\u00e3o Carlos in Lisbon, the Teatro Principal in Valencia, the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, the Bonn Opera House, the Lima Opera House, the Greek National Opera in Athens, and the Las Palmas Opera House in Gran Canaria.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maria Pia Ionata has sung under the baton of renowned conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Daniel Oren, Zubin Mehta, Maurizio Arena, Gary Bertini, Donato Renzetti, Lorenzo Viotti, Yuri Ahronovich, Niksa Bareza, Gustav Kuhn, Paolo Carignani, Jos\u00e8 Maria Cervera Collado, Antonello Allemandi, Steven Mercurio, Giuliano Carella, Renato Palumbo, Alain Guingal, Tiziano Severini, Peter Maag, Marco Armiliato, and Gianfranco Masini.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has also collaborated with internationally renowned directors including Luca Ronconi, Giancarlo Del Monaco, Gilbert Deflo, Robert Carsen, Sonja Frisell, Mario Monicelli, Rolando Panerai, Johan Landis, Antonello Madau Diaz, Filippo Crivelli, Alberto Fassini, Pier Francesco Maestrini, Mauro Bolognini, Vitaliano Trevisan, Renzo Giacchieri, Roberto Lagan\u00e0 Manoli, Joseph Franconi Lee, Maurizio Scaparro, Klaus Kirschner, and Gabriele Vacis.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She also has film experience, playing the role of Tosca in the film <em>Tosca e altre due <\/em>alongside Franca Valeri and Adriana Asti.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few years ago, he embarked on a career in teaching, first as a lecturer at the Accademia di Alto Perfezionamento della Fondazione Festival Pucciniano in Torre del Lago, then at the Boccherini Conservatory in Lucca, and since 2019 at the Vecchi Tonelli Conservatory in Modena.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is currently involved in the \u2018Turandot T4T\u2019 project in collaboration with the \u2018Giuseppe Verdi\u2019 Conservatory in Milan for the production of the four finales 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After specialising in both instruments, she attended a professional training course<br>for accompanists and piano accompanists at the<br>\u2018P. Mascagni\u2019 Conservatory in Livorno. She also studied<br>orchestral conducting with Piero Bellugi and, more recently, with<br>Marco Boni at the International Academy of Imola. <br>He then embarked on a career as a rehearsal pianist and stage pianist, working in theatres such as the Arena in Verona, the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Teatro Coccia in Novara, the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca and the Teatro Goldoni in Livorno.<br>Particularly significant is his collaboration with the Fondazione<br>Festival Pucciniano in Torre del Lago as an orchestral pianist<br>from 2000 to 2005, as a collaborative maestro from 2007 to 2010 and, after<br>winning the selection process for the role, as stage musical director<br>from 2014 to the present.<br>She also collaborates on a regular basis with the &#8216;Fondazione Simonetta Puccini per<br>Giacomo Puccini&#8217; as a pianist and as a speaker for &#8216;Conversazioni<br>sull&#8217;opera&#8217;, a project she promoted and created, which consists of<br>a series of in-depth monographic meetings dedicated to the works<br>of Giacomo Puccini.<br>Highly regarded as an accompanist, she has collaborated with<br>numerous prominent artists, including Mirella Freni, Aprile Millo, and Sonia Ganassi,<br>and has performed in many opera recitals in Italy and abroad.<br>On May 25, 2024, in a piano recital commissioned and organized by the<br>Michel De Montaigne Foundation in Bagni di Lucca, she was the first<br>performer ever to play the complete edition of Giacomo Puccini&#8217;s piano compositions<br>In 2024, he made his debut as conductor of the<br>Orchestra del Festival Puccini in a program entirely<br>dedicated to the composer from Lucca on the centenary of his death,<br>conducting two opera recitals (the opening concert of the \u201c2nd Varzi Festival\u201d and<br>the opening concert of the season at the Teatro Guglielmi in Massa).<br>From 2020 to 2023, she taught the advanced and specialization course for Maestri Collaboratori at the Accademia del Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago and for the project \u201cLe Stanze dell&#8217;Opera\u201d promoted by the Fondazione Guido D&#8217;Arezzo.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Silvia Gasperini - Bio\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"She graduated with honours in piano andharpsichord. 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