In 2007, the Lübeck Theatre and the University of Music Lübeck (Musikhochschule Lübeck, MHL) jointly established the "International Opera Elite Studio" (since 2021 "Opera Studio Lübeck "), financed by the Possehl Foundation, in order to comprehensively support particularly gifted young singers in the transitional phase between training and professional opera life and thus prepare them for a profession that requires a wealth of further artistic and personal qualifications in addition to a solid vocal education. The scholarship holders of the Opera Studio Lübeck participate in various musical theatre productions of the Lübeck Theatre, taking on small and medium-sized roles and covering large ones, depending on their aptitude. At the same time they complete a further education course at the MHL.

The Opera Studio Lübeck offers its members the opportunity to gain professional practice under the conditions of a professional opera company and at the same time to be supported and accompanied by an individual study programme. The theatre and the MHL jointly ensure that the training programme is specifically tailored to the profile of the individual scholarship holder in musical, scenic-acting and personal terms, in order to guarantee the most intensive development period possible. Several scholarship holders have already become regular ensemble members of the Lübeck Theatre after their time in the Opera Studio, others have entered into comparably attractive engagements.

In the 2023/2024 season, the MHL and the Lübeck Theatre will continue their cooperation in this area. In the future, the Opera Studio Lübeck will be expanded to include a member in the solo repertoire. The call for applications will take place in 2022.

The scholarship in brief

• Duration: one year
• 1,200 Euros per month. Tuition fees are waived.
• Status: Participants in a further education course at the MHL with main subject teaching and correpetition (always from the summer semester to the end of the following winter semester).
• Theatre service: from 1 March to 28/29 February of the following year

Requirements

• successfully completed singing studies
• good knowledge of German (level B2)
• maximum age: 33 years

Programme requirements

• A demanding programme is expected which demonstrates high technical and artistic skills.
• The programme to be submitted must contain five arias of different character from opera or operetta. One aria must be from a work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• The works must be sung in several languages, one of the languages must be German.

Next application deadline
16th of July till 22nd of August 2022
Click here for the application procedure

Auditions
probably on 17th October 2022

Note on the application procedure
After a preliminary selection based on the submitted documents, invitations to audition will be sent out by mid-September. No fee is charged for processing the application to the Lübeck Opera Studio

Secretariat of Study at the MHL
Große Petersgrube 21
23552 Lübeck 

Nadja Dickert
101a
T: +49 (0)451-1505-182
F: +49 (0)451-1505-303
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