Vocal Studies

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The study programmes at the Department for Vocal Studies are tailored to the needs of singers in the 21st century, who can take on roles with demanding physical requirements and are also trained to work with colleagues, directors and conductors from all over the world. The renowned faculty inspires and encourages students to find their own voice and develop it at their own pace. Numerous opportunities to gain stage experience in the immediate vicinity of the Salzburg Festival round out the programme.

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Voice training already played an important role when the Mozarteum was founded in 1841, and this is no different today. The expectations placed on today's singers, however, have changed considerably: in addition to excellent vocal and musical qualities, performing skills are also a must for successful singers. The study programme prepares students for the many realities of life as a singer.

In addition, the vocal pedagogy courses offer a practice-oriented, artistic, pedagogical and academic education. The interdisciplinary and diverse nature of these courses represents a contemporary preparation for a range of future professional fields in a changing professional world.

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News

  • © Judith Buss
    29.6.2026

    Opera production
  • © Ann Solie Photography
    18.6.2026

    A conversation with Bavarian soprano and Mozart specialist Teresa Boning about the high notes in *The Magic Flute* that led her to contemporary music, her work with street children in Costa Rica—which further strengthened her desire to study singing—and the influence of singing on psychiatric conditions.

    Alumnae & Alumni Stories

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Events

  • 26.8.—1.9.2026
    Teatro dei Rinnovati
    Baroque Summer Academy Siena
    Seit 2021 findet im Rahmen der renommierten Accademia Musicale Chigiana die Barocke Sommerakademie des Departments Alte Musik der Universität Mozarteum in der Stadt Siena in Italien statt. Die Zusammenarbeit mit der Chigiana-Stiftung von Siena ermöglicht den Unterricht in Alter Musik in einer besonderen, von Barock und Renaissance geprägten Atmosphäre. 
    Summer course
  • 14.10.2026
    06:00 pm
    Wiener Saal, Stiftung Mozarteum
    Spotlight on: Fanny Hensel - Lieder und Duette
    Studierende der Universität Mozarteum gestalten mit ausgewählten Liedern, Duetten sowie Liedern ohne Worte von Fanny Hensel und Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy einen musikalisch facettenreichen Konzertabend.
    Concert
    · Free

Opera productions

  • © Judith Buss
    29.6.2026

    Opera production
  • © Wilfried Hösl
    20.5.2026
    Giacomo Puccini: Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi 

    Two one-act operas by Giacomo Puccini, based on libretti by Giovacchino Forzano – one tragic, the other comic – hold up a mirror to society through the lens of art. Together, they offer a multifaceted exploration of the interplay between social structures and individual choices. In their production of Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, both premiered in New York in 1918, Florentine Klepper and Kai Röhrig’s opera class invited the audience to engage in a thought experiment: How does a society react when its values, norms, and boundaries are put to the test?

    Opera production
  • 19.2.2026

    Opera production
  • © Judith Buss
    2.2.2026
    Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia 

    "Go back, Tarquinius!" – comes the warning from the opera's narrator to the son of the Etruscan king. But the tragedy is already unfolding at pace: Tarquinius falls upon Lucretia, the wife of his comrade Collatinus, and rapes her, in spite of her fierce reistance. The next day, Lucretia takes her own life in public. Benjamin Britten's dark chamber opera, premiered in 1946 at Glyndebourne, resounds with the traumatic experiences of fascism and war.

    Opera production
  • © Wolf Silveri
    23.6.2025

    Caught between Baroque and contemporary music, Kai Röhrig and Florentine Klepper's opera class set out in search of clues with ‘Medusa / Giuditta’, following on from the successful double bill ‘Elissa / Dido & Aeneas’ in 2023.

    Opera production
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Senior Lecturer

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Regina Prasser
Regina Prasser

Senior Lecturer for Voice, Elocution / Rhetoric, Children & Youth Voice Education (Music Education)

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