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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 40 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
MASTER ARTISTS
| Gabriel Bacquier |
Baritone
Metropolitan Opera
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| Mignon Dunn |
Mezzo-Soprano
Metropolitan Opera
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| Ruth Falcon |
Soprano
Metropolitan Opera
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| Abbie Furmansky |
Soprano
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatstheater Mainz, Washington National Opera
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| Hakan Hagegard |
Baritone
Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, Royal Opera, Stockholm
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| Ljuba Kasarnovskaya |
Soprano
Metropolitan Opera, Bolshoi Opera, Kirov Opera
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| Catherine Malfitano |
Soprano
Metropolitan Opera
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| Sherrill Milnes |
Baritone
Metropolitan Opera |
| Mark Oswald |
Baritone
Metropolitan Opera |
| Renata Scotto |
Soprano
Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera; Chicago Lyric Opera; Dallas Opera; Royal Opera, London
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| Diane Soviero |
Soprano
Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Paris Opera, Royal Opera House
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COACHES, TEACHERS & CONDUCTORS
| Rainer Armbrust |
Coach, Conductor
Boston Wagner Society, Karlsruhe
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| Lucy Arner |
Coach, Conductor
Metropolitan Opera; Artistic Director, New York Chamber Opera
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| Richard Barrett |
Coach, Conductor
Head of Opera Department, Brooklyn College
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| Giovanna Canetti |
Teacher and Coach
Teatro alla Scala
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| Joan Dornemann |
Coach
Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Opera Paris
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| Mark Ensley |
Coach, Conductor
Director, University of Memphis Opera, Opera Memphis
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| Joyce Fieldsend |
Coach
Teatro La Fenice, San Francisco Opera, Glyndebourne
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| Benton Hess |
Coach, Conductor
Eastman School of Music, Mercury Opera, Hess is Musical Director of Tacoma (WA) Opera, Boston Conservatory |
| Martin Isepp |
Coach, Conductor
Glyndebourne, Juilliard, Metropolitan Opera, National Studio London |
| Marlena Malas |
Teacher
Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School, Chautauqua Institution |
| Liora Maurer |
Coach
Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Wolf Trap Festival
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| Gerald Martin Moore |
Teacher
Atelier Lyrique, Opera de Montreal, Santa Fe Opera, Merola
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| Edoardo Müller |
Conductor
Metropolitan Opera Paris Opera, Munich Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dallas Opera, Seattle Opera
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| Paul Nadler |
Conductor
Metropolitan Opera
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| Jorge Parodi |
Coach
The Juilliard School, New York University
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| Eve Queler |
Conductor
Opera Orchestra of New York
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| Jorge Parodi |
Coach, Conductor
Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), Opera Company of Philadelphia, Project Opera of Manhattan, Connecticut Grand Opera;
Manhattan School of Music
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| David Rosenmeyer |
Coach, Conductor
Mannes College, Bach Society of Columbia University.
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| Howard Watkins |
Assistant Conductor
Metropolitan Opera
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| Claude Webster |
Coach
Atelier lyrique of L'Opéra de Montréal
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| Jane Steele |
Vocal Coach
Assistant Conductor New Jersey State Opera, Opera Colorado, Administrative Director, International Institute of Vocal Arts, Chiari Italy
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| Maria Zouves |
Director of V.O.I.C. Experience
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STAGE DIRECTORS
| Ned Canty |
Boston Lyric Opera, Washington National Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, The Juilliard School
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| Larry Edelson |
Founder and Producing Artistic Director American Lyric Theatre; Glimmerlgass Opera, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Hawaii Opera Theater, Sarasota Opera
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| John Norris |
Metropolitan Opera, Bavarian State Opera, The Juilliard School
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| Joachim Schamberger |
Indianapolis Opera, Tampa Opera, Théâtre Municipal, Castres, France, Stony Brook Conservatory
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| Thaddeus Strassberger |
Opera Ireland, Opera Colorado, Utah Opera, National Theatre in Prague
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| Joshua Major |
Artistic Director, Pine Mountain Music Festival; Opera Director, University of Michigan
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| Giovanna Maresta |
Stage Director, Teatro alla Scala, Bologna, Messina
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TECHNIQUE, LANGUAGE & MOVEMENT
| Deborah Birnbaum |
Breath Technique Specialist
San Francisco Opera Center, Glimmerglass
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| Robert Cowart |
Language Coach
Metropolitan Opera; Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School
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| John Fisher |
Technique and Interpretation
General Director, Welsh National Opera
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| Hemdi Kfir |
Language Coach
Metropolitan Opera, Israeli Opera
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| Craig Rutenberg |
Technique & Interpretation
Director of Music Administration, Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera Center for American Artists, the Paris Conservatoire, The École Lyrique de la Bastille, Paris, the Wolf Trap Opera, Chautauqua Institute.
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