The 17th volume of “Schriften der Europäischen Musiktheater-Akademie”, Spielräume der Fantasie. Kinder- und Familienoper: Eine Bestandsaufnahme edited by Isolde Schmid-Reiter and Peter Heilker, will be released in December.

With contributions by Gerald Maria Bauer, Anna Bernreitner, Thomas Birkmeir, Matthias Brandt, Tina Breckwoldt, Beate Breidenbach, André Comploi, Franziska Degé, Jonathan Dove, Paula Fünfeck, Gancho Ganchev, Giulia Giammona, Peter Heilker, Barbara Hellmayr, Gordon Kampe, Elena Kats-Chernin, Oliver Láng, Peter Lund, Anna Melcher, Vera Nemirova, Sabryna Pierre, Christiane Plank-Baldauf, Constanze Rora, Joscha Schaback, Helmut Schmidinger, Isolde Schmid-Reiter, Christian Schröder, Kerstin Schüssler-Bach, Thierry Tidrow, Pierangelo Valtinoni, Kai Wessler, Krysztina Winkel, Susanne Felicitas Wolf.

The international symposium Singing. Pedagogy and Didactics, organized in collaboration with the Korea National Opera, will commence on July 7 in Seoul with a tightly scheduled three-day programme.

Programme:
Singing. Pedagogy and Didactics

The 16th volume of “Schriften der Europäischen Musiktheater-Akademie”, Operetta. An Assessment, edited by Isolde Schmid-Reiter and Sebastian F. Schwarz, will be released in July.

With contributions by Jan Henric Bogen, Aviel Cahn, Kevin Clarke, Wolfgang Dosch, Peter Edelmann, Ladislav Elgr, Stefan Frey, Roland Geyer, Ignacio Jassa Haro, Daniel Hirschel, Alexander Joel, Josef E. Köpplinger, Peter Konwitschny, Theresa Kronthaler, Marco Ladd, Fabio Luisi, Peter Lund, Giorgio Madia, Marc Minkowski, Elena Oliva, Daniel Prohaska, Malte Puls, Ildikó Raimondi, Isolde Schmid-Reiter, Sebastian F. Schwarz, Emanuele Senici, Michele Spotti, Alessandro Talevi, Christian Thausing.

International conference in cooperation with the Korea National Opera

July, 7-9, 2025, Seoul, South Korea

The Korea National Opera (www.nationalopera.org) and the European Academy of Music Theatre  are jointly organizing an international symposium with renowned speakers from Korea, Europe and the US, focusing on the interplay of practice and theory, and the intercultural exchange of competence and perspectives on vocal pedagogy, serving as a platform for sharing experiences.

Young singers from South Korea continue to impress at international competitions. The conference will center on questions regarding methods and curricula in vocal training. In addition, topics such as operatic voice types and the European “Fach system”, the exploration, translation and application of academic findings for vocal didactics, competitions, and opera studios will be considered. Further topics of discussion include the varying standards at educational institutions and the shortage of young male voices as well as the teaching of fundamental vocal techniques for conductors. Interdisciplinary aspects such as vocal physiology and vocal health will also be addressed. Additionally, there will be masterclasses for students in the areas of singing, acting, and career planning.

With contributions by: Nikolay Borchev (Nuremberg University of Music and Leipzig Academy of Music and Theatre),  Aviel Cahn (Grand Théâtre de Genève), Yin-Sung Chang (Seoul National University), Sangho Choi (Korea National Opera und Korea National University of Arts), Simone Di Crescenzo (University of Bologna), Peter Edelmann (University  of Music and Performing Arts Vienna), Titus Engel (conductor), Nicolò Umberto Foron (conductor), Arnold Jacobshagen (Cologne University of Music and Dance), Peter Heilker (Theater an der Wien), Vesselina Kasarova (Seoul National University of Music), Michael Kraus (Vienna State Opera), Peter Konwitschny (stage director), Francesco Lanzillotta (conductor), So-Young Lee (Korea National Opera), Alexander Mayr (University  of Music and Performing Arts Vienna), Marie McLaughlin (National Opera Studio, London), Andrew Moravcsik (Princeton University), Dirk Mürbe (Charité – University Hospital Berlin), MeeAe Nam (Eastern Michigan University), Sebastian Schwarz (Opera Europa), Min-Kyu Song (Seoul National University), Sebastian Stauss (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich), Kwangchul Youn (Opera singer).

More than twenty years after EMA‘s conference Kinderoper: Ästhetische Herausforderung und pädagogische Verpflichtung, this art form is now being re-evaluated from a multidisciplinary perspective to assess its current position, reflect on developments, and address challenges.

Programme:
Spielräume der Fantasie

International conference in cooperation with the MusikTheater an der Wien

December 11- 13, 2024

„Well-made theater for children is always also theater for parents, and, in my opinion, ‚opera for adults‘ is suitable for children and young people. The key is taking the audience seriously and challenging their capacity for reception, rather than catering to clichés.” In 2004, Gerhard Schedl implicitly identified a fundamental characteristic of children’s opera with his demands for it, a trait that is generally also constitutive of children’s literature and proves to be a hallmark of children’s opera as well: the dual address.
From a multidisciplinary perspective, both researchers and practitioners examine developments, productions, contemporary formats for the big stage, and small narrative forms in their aesthetic diversity, and discuss frameworks, challenges, and experiences.

https://www.theater-wien.at/de/spielplan/saison2024-25/1485/Spielraeume-der-Fantasie

The presentation of EMA´s new book Belcanto. Tradition and Fascination Today took place on May 31 at the Grand Théâtre de Genève on the occasion of the opening night of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux with an insight into the goals and tasks of the Academy and an overview of the publication by Isolde Schmid-Reiter and statements by Aviel Cahn and Mariame Clément, the stage director of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy.

The 15th volume of the “Schriften der Europäischen Musiktheater-Akademie”, Belcanto. Tradition and Fascination Today, edited by Isolde Schmid-Reiter and Aviel Cahn, will be released at the end of May.

It is a great pleasure for the European Academy of Music Theatre to announce that Chaya Czernowin was elected as Vice President and Titus Engel, Peter Heilker and Rolando Villazón will join Aviel Cahn (President), John Deathridge, Arnold Jacobshagen, Amir Hosseinpour, Isolde Schmid-Reiter (Secretary General), Sebastian Schwarz, Emanuele Senici and Linda Watson as new members of the Academy’s board.

July 30-31, 2023, Fondazione Paolo Grassi, Martina Franca, Italy

European Academy of Music Theatre in cooperation with the Festival della Valle d’Itria (https://www.festivaldellavalleditria.it).

The symposium will discuss the current situation of the genre from various different viewpoints, rooted both in theory and in practice, with international renowned speakers. Neither portraits of creators nor individual productions are in the focus of the conference. It will comprise topics such as the fundamental question of the contemporary relevance of operetta, the staging between considering the genre a historical phenomenon and new inventive ways, creative attempts at renewal of the genre, the situation of specific training for the singers and challenges for the performers, and will conclude in an overview of the international reception.

Speakers: Micaela Baranello, Lotte de Beer, Jan Henric Bogen, Kevin Clarke, Peter Edelmann, Ladislav Elgr, Stefan Frey, Roland Geyer, Ignacio Jassa Haro, Daniel Hirschel, Alexander Joel, Peter Konwitschny, Josef E. Köpplinger, Theresa Kronthaler, Marco Ladd, Peter Lund, Fabio Luisi, Giorgio Madia, Marc Minkowski, Elena Oliva, Daniel Prohaska, Ildikó Raimondi, Sebastian Schwarz, Emanuele Senici, Michele Spotti, Alessandro Talevi, Susanne Vill.

Programming: Isolde Schmid-Reiter, Sebastian Schwarz