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This is a partial list of IVAI’s prestigious faculty:
JOAN DORNEMANN
IVAI Co-founder and Artistic Director
Ms. Dornemann, Metropolitan Opera Assistant Conductor, is one of the most highly respected opera coaches in the world today. She has worked with such singers as Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Sherrill Milnes, Kiri Te Kanawa, Montserrat Caballe, Deborah Voigt, Renée Fleming, Leo Nucci and others. She has been associated with the Gran Liceo in Barcelona, the Spoleto Festival, the New York City Opera, Opera National de Paris and the Kirov Opera. Ms. Dornemann has received an Emmy Award for her contribution to the highly acclaimed first Live From the Met first telecast of La Bohème. She is the author of Complete Preparation: A Guide to Auditioning for the Opera.
PAUL NADLER
Conductor, IVAI Co-founder and Director of Musical Activities
Since his debut in 1989, Maestro Nadler has led over 60 performances at the Metropolitan Opera, conducting some of today’s most renowned singers. Maestro Nadler is Music Director Emeritus of the Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Filarmonica de Stat Iasi (Romania). Iasi and Brasov. His extensive conducting career includes working with Opera Cleveland, National Opera Company of Bucharest Orchestra, Augsburg Symphony (Germany), Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Verbier Festival (Switzerland), Florida Philharmonic Orchestra and the Timisiora Symphony (Romania). Indianapolis Opera, Utah Opera, Calgary Opera, Florentine Opera, Minnesota Opera, Syracuse Opera, Orlando Opera and Hong Kong Opera
COACHES, TEACHERS & CONDUCTORS
| Rainer Armbrust |
Coach, Conductor
Bayreuther Festspiele; Israeli Opera
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| Lucy Arner |
Coach, Conductor
Metropolitan Opera; Artistic Director, New York Chamber Opera
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Richard Barrett |
Conductor
Mannes; Fort Worth Opera; Brooklyn College Opera Theater |
| Giovanna Canetti |
Teacher and Coach
Teatro alla Scala, Milano
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| Carlos R. Conde |
Vocal instruction and Stage Direction
Frost School of Music, The Juilliard School |
| Joan Dornemann |
Artistic Director, Coach
Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Opera Paris
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| Mignon Dunn |
Mezzo-Soprano
Metropolitan Opera |
| Ruth Falcon |
Soprano
Metropolitan Opera |
| Benton Hess |
Coach, Conductor
Eastman School of Music, Mercury Opera, Hess is
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| David Holkeboer |
Coach
Chamber Opera Theatre NY American Music Theatre
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| Liora Maurer |
Coach
Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera,
Wolf Trap Festival |
| Sherrill Milnes |
Baritone
Metropolitan Opera; V.O.I.C.Experience |
| Gerald Martin Moore |
Voice Teacher
Merola-San Francisco Opera; Santa Fe Opera; Glyndebourne
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| Paul Nadler |
Music Director, Conductor
Metropolitan Opera; Conductor Emeritus, S.W. Florida Symphony; Principal Guest Conductor, Filarmonica de Stat Iasi, Romania |
| David Rosenmeyer |
Coach, Conductor
Oratoria Society, Bach Society
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| Jane Steele |
Coach
New Jersey State Opera, Opera Colorado, International Institute of Vocal Arts, Chiari Italy
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| Claude Webster |
Coach
Atelier lyrique of L'Opéra de Montréal
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| William Woodruff |
Coach
Metropolitan Opera; Artistic Director, IIVA,
Conservatorio de Musica de PR
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STAGE DIRECTORS
| Carlos R. Conde |
Vocal instruction and Stage Direction
Frost School of Music, The Juilliard School |
| Lawrence Edelson |
Stage Director
Founder and Producing Artistic Director American Lyric Theatre; Minnesota Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Manhattan School of Music.
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| Giovanna Maresta |
Teatro alla Scala, Bologna, Messina
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| David Paul |
Shakespeare Theatre, Washington DC; Washington National Opera
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| Joachim Schamberger |
Indianapolis Opera, Tampa Opera, Théâtre Municipal,
Castres, France, Stony Brook Conservatory
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| Tomer Zvulun |
Metropolitan Opera; Seattle Opera,
New York City Opera
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TECHNIQUE, LANGUAGE & MOVEMENT
| Robert Cowart |
Language Coach
Metropolitan Opera; Manhattan School of Music,
The Juilliard School
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| Hemdi Kfir |
Language Coach
Metropolitan Opera, Israeli Opera
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| Keryn Lundgren |
Movement Coach
Bronx Community College; Equinox
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