Application start for the Opera Studio program 2026-2028!

The opera studio at the Volksoper Wien is a two-year program supporting young singers and pianists in launching successful careers. Members receive regular coaching, masterclasses, language training, and participate in productions on the Volksoper stage. On top of that the program wants to encourage young artists in their own creativity which is why we also create an annual Studio production as well as many smaller projects and concerts. The goal is to foster a vibrant, contemporary approach to musical theater in all its forms. It is especially exciting to dive into the variety of the genre in a house like Volksoper Wien, where opera, operetta and musicals are on the repertoire.

We are looking forward to many applications of young artists that are eager to shape the future of music theatre.

We will be accepting applications beginning on 15.05.2025. The deadline is 15.07.2025.

A pre-selection for singers will be based on the following materials:

current artistic curriculum vitae
current photo
current repertoire list
links to 3 arias (opera, operetta or musical possible), at least one of them in German

Apply here

A pre-selection for pianists will be based on the following materials:

current artistic curriculum vitae
current photo
current repertoire list

Apply here

Opera Studio

Volksoper Wien has made it a central project to keep music theatre in all its facets alive, up-to-date, young and top-class. The promotion of young artists must be an elementary component of this endeavour, because: The future begins today!

At the beginning of the 2022/23 season, the Christian Zeller Privatstiftung made it possible to establish a new opera studio at the Volksoper Wien. In this programme, seven international singers and a pianist are accompanied in their studies and in their professional life for two years. They will receive regular coaching, masterclasses, acting, dance and language lessons as well as workshops to prepare them for the unique mental and physical challenges of everyday life as an artist. Auditions, tools for career management and, of course, the opportunity to take their first steps in their own opera studio productions, but also on the Volksoper stage are part of the programme as well. In this way, the Volksoper not only helps to shape the next generation of outstanding, intelligent, and flexible singers, but also to further the identity of the theatre.

But the creative power of the young studio members should also be able to unfold beyond this. The opera studio is a place where a lively and collective examination of music theatre takes place. The individuality of each member thus flows directly into the results of the work, into the search for new forms of performance, venues and perspectives on music theatre. This wide-ranging offer of the opera studio is intended to give the participating artists the opportunity to grow personally. Vocally, professionally, musically, as actors, but also in terms of content and as human beings. The Volksoper Wien wants to make its contribution to the further development of a professional image and the genre of music theatre with independent and stubborn personalities.

Accompany Mira Alkhovik (soprano), Chelsea Guo (Sopran), Hannah Fheodoroff (mezzo-soprano), Camila Aguilera Yáñez (mezzo-soprano), Seiyoung Kim (tenor), Trevor Haumschilt-Rocha (baritone), Smelo Mahlangu (bass-baritone) and Christopher Flaskamp (piano) on their journey in the first year of the 2nd generation of the Opera Studio and become the eyes and ears of the future of musical theater!