Vocal Studies

Schöner Gesang

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.

About

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.

Courses

News

  • © Judith Buss
    15.12.2024
    Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi 

    The performance of Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi delivered a powerful reinterpretation of the masterpiece. Directed by Alexander von Pfeil, the production centred on the relentless feud between two rival clans and the profound despair of its victims. This staging transcended specific eras, placing the story in a universal, timeless setting that brought Bellini's dark vision of love and war to the stage with harrowing clarity.

    Opera production
  • © Elsa Okazaki
    30.9.2024
    Welcome, Welcome, Welcome! 

    In autumn 2024, bass-baritone Lisandro Abadie, actress Hanna Binder, conductor Christiane Büttig, visual artist Annette Fauvel, guitarists Giuseppe Feola and Bozhana Pavlova, cultural and media scientist Paul Feigelfeld, composer Laure M. Hiendl, pianist Lei Meng, soprano Allison Oakes and violist German Tcakulov will take up their positions as university professors at the Mozarteum University. We are looking forward to the collaboration!

    Press release
  • 11.9.2024

    In June, Cibrán Sierra Vázquez, Professor of Chamber Music, and his Cuarteto Quiroga were awarded the Medal of Honour of the Escuela Reina Sofia, the highest distinction of the renowned academic institution, by Queen Sofia of Spain. Juliane Banse, Professor of Solo Singing, was honoured with the Placa de la Escuela - congratulations!

    Awards & Successes
  • © Christian Schneider
    14.8.2024
    International Summer Academy selects 12 award winners 

    Last Saturday, after four intensive weeks under the artistic direction of Hannfried Lucke, the International Summer Academy 2024 came to a very successful end with 55 masterclasses, 13 additional courses and 66 concerts. 550 participants from 53 nations (average age 21) were guests in Salzburg. Twelve up-and-coming artists were honoured and each received 1,000 euros in prize money donated by the City of Salzburg's Cultural Fund.

    News

Media library

Events

  • 11.1.2025
    12:00 pm
    Study concerts
    Study concerts (or "class evenings") are concerts in which students of the Mozarteum University perform on stage. They are organised either as part of courses or by the respective departments - and are free to attend.
    Study concert
    · Free
  • 16.1.2025
    03:00 pm
    Study concerts
    Study concerts (or "class evenings") are concerts in which students of the Mozarteum University perform on stage. They are organised either as part of courses or by the respective departments - and are free to attend.
    Study concert
    · Free
  • 17.1.2025
    04:00 pm
    Study concerts
    Study concerts (or "class evenings") are concerts in which students of the Mozarteum University perform on stage. They are organised either as part of courses or by the respective departments - and are free to attend.
    Study concert
    · Free
  • 24.1.2025
    07:00 pm
    Max Schlereth Saal
    A Poet's love
    Florentine Klepper stages the most famous song cycle of German Romanticism as a large ensemble work and sets off with the students of the opera class in search of clues to the abysses of the soul. Love, loneliness and human finiteness: eternal themes run through the sixteen songs of Robert Schumann'
  • 25.1.2025
    04:00 pm
    Max Schlereth Saal
    A Poet's love
    Florentine Klepper stages the most famous song cycle of German Romanticism as a large ensemble work and sets off with the students of the opera class in search of clues to the abysses of the soul. Love, loneliness and human finiteness: eternal themes run through the sixteen songs of Robert Schumann'

Opera productions

  • © Judith Buss
    15.12.2024
    Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi 

    The performance of Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi delivered a powerful reinterpretation of the masterpiece. Directed by Alexander von Pfeil, the production centred on the relentless feud between two rival clans and the profound despair of its victims. This staging transcended specific eras, placing the story in a universal, timeless setting that brought Bellini's dark vision of love and war to the stage with harrowing clarity.

    Opera production
  • © Judith Buss
    26.6.2024

    As a play, La Folle journée by the scandalous author Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais was banned in Vienna. However, Mozart and Da Ponte were able to suggest to Emperor Joseph II that the genre of opera would defuse the revolutionarily objectionable text and were thus commissioned to compose and write the libretto. The question of whether they did not in fact intensify the play in other ways is one that is posed anew in every production. With Le nozze di Figaro, Gernot Sahler and Alexander von Pfeil's opera class continued their Da Ponte cycle, which began with Così fan tutte in May 2023.

    Opera production
  • © Wolf Silveri
    20.5.2024
    Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff 

    Sir John Falstaff is a natural phenomenon: his appearance is imposing, his demeanour commanding, his manner possessive. And most fascinating of all: the event does not care about rules, conventions or decorum, it simply exists for its own sake, in a sense for nothing but its belly.

    Opera production
  • Elegie für junge Liebende | © Judith Buss
    31.1.2024
    Elegy for young lovers 

    "What qualities must a person possess in order to dominate both dramaturgically and vocally in an opera?" and "What must a man of mature age look like who is in close relationships with a crazy old lady, a young girl and a doctor at the same time?"

    Opera production
  • Hänsel & Gretel | © Fabian Helmich
    15.12.2023

    With her production, Rosamund Gilmore embarked on a journey into the subconscious and combined the deep psychological layers of the fairy tale with the film-visualized works of Claudia Lehmann's students.

    Opera production
  • Elissa / Dido & Aeneas | © Fabian Helmich
    30.6.2023

    More than 330 years after the premiere of the only complete opera by Henry Purcell, the French composer Henry Fourès composes a setting for Dido and Aeneas and calls it "Elissa". A second name for the queen that allows the character to exist on its own, without direct ties to Aeneas.

    Opera production
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Regina Prasser
Regina Prasser

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

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© Annemone Taake

Lecturer for Lied arrangement / Female-Artist-in-Residence

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