Mascarade Opera Studio

The Mascarade Opera Studio programme is a nine-month fully funded high-ability training programme in opera designed to support singers and répétiteurs of exceptional talent at the initial stages of their career. It includes extensive career management, enhanced performance skills training for opera provided by expert coaches, vocal consultants, performance specialists and invited master teachers, alongside orchestral showcases and a variety of carefully chosen performance opportunities. Our location in Florence, the capital of Tuscany, symbolises a return to the birthplace of opera whose Renaissance humanism also lies at the heart of MOS.

Conductor Jonathan Santagada is proudly a part of the Artistic Advisory Board of MOS and will be conducting a showcase as well as giving masterclasses throughout the year for singers and repetiteurs.

Watch Jonathan Santagada talk to MOS Chief Executive Max Fane about how he became a conductor, the MOS programme and the training offered in particular to répétiteurs.

Live auditions for our programme take place in London, Berlin, New York , Florence and Glasgow on the dates specified in the application section. Application deadline for auditions is 21 October 2019.

Apply via our website: https://mascaradeoperastudio.it/apply/

Reviews of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO with The New Generation Festival

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“Die fulminanten Gesangsleistungen werden getragen und befördert durch Jonathan Santagada. Der Assistent von Sir Antonio Pappano am Opernhaus von Covent Garden sorgt am Pult des seinerseits jung besetzten Orchestra Senzaspine für den idealen Mozart-Puls, in dem sich die klare Artikulation der Klangrede wunderbar in den emotional empfundenen Phrasierungssog einbettet”

— Peter Krause - Concerti.de

“Applausi scroscianti per Le nozze di Figaro. L’opera di Mozart, diretta dal maestro Jonathan Santagada con l’Orchestra Senzaspine, ha infiammato il pubblico internazionale che stasera ha partecipato alla prima serata della terza edizione del The New Generation Festival”

— Elettra Gullè - La Nazione

“Jonathan Santagada, pregevole direttore allievo di sir Antony Pappano, ha agito con un’orchestra dal nome promettente: “Senzaspine”. Hanno suonato bene, pulitamente, come le grandi orchestre “serie”.”

— Carla Maria Casanova - Lo Spettacoliere

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“The Mozart ensemble was very well cast. Jonathan Santagada kept the Orchestra Senzaspine in motion with young musicians from Bologna, set, appropriate to the open air, rather on romantic fullness of sound”

— Andreas Berger - Oper Magazin

“La parte musicale riserva vere e proprie sorprese a partire dalla direzione briosa e scattante del giovane Jonathan Santagada, alla guida dell’Orchestra Senzaspine, da cui ottiene un suono compatto e levigato. I tempi serrati non fanno passare in secondo piano un discreto approfondimento della partitura, e sono sempre ben calibrati per non mettere in difficoltà gli interpreti. Il direttore sa anche distillare con cura le oasi liriche, contribuendo a creare una lettura di notevole passo teatrale, che valorizza appropriatamente l’opera mozartiana ”

— ★★★★ Filippo Antichi - Connessi all'Opera

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“ Der Instrumentalnachwuchs des hauseigenen Orchestra Senzaspine unter dem tempohurtigen, aber nie verhetzten Pappano-Assistenten Jonathan Santagada klingt wirklich dornenlos und fein, freiluftgemäß freilich auch wenig füllig. Doch mit ein wenig elektroakustischer Unterstützung balanciert sich das gut aus.”

— Manuel Brug - Welt

“Under the quick tempi of Jonathan Santagada, assistant to Pappano, this Figaro whilst sounding under-powered, was nevertheless light and fine und thus perfect for a cheerful open air event.”

— Von Thomas Migge - Klassikinfo

“The youthful Orchestra Senzaspine, under its conductor Jonathan Santagada, struck up an ouverture that sounded particulary crisp and urgent”

— ★★★★ Ashutosh Khandekar - Opera Now

“An evidently talented young conductor, Jonathan Santagada, directed a well-paced account of the score, drawing stylish, rhythmically buoyant playing from a fine orchestra of equally young players, rather more of them than usual for Mozart”

— Brian Robins - Opera Magazine

Jonathan Santagada returns to The New Generation Festival to conduct Le nozze di Figaro

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“It will be hard for others to match the broad scope and cinematic charm of the Corsini event.”

— The Financial Times

“Christopher Palmer’s arrangement of Walton’s [Henry V] film treatment was the one used here...and with the orchestra under Jonathan Santagada’s direction it worked a treat. ★★★★ ”

— Independent

After the success of William Shakespeare's Henry V by William Walton, Jonathan Santagada returns to The New Generation Festival to conduct Mozart’s masterpiece with a young and talented cast including Daniel Mirosław, Anna El-Khashem, Faik Mansuroğlu, Nela Šarić, Sara Rocchi, Alexandra Lowe, Beth Margaret Taylor and Domenico Pellicola.