Opera Programs Berlin

Happy holidays from all of us at Opera Programs Berlin.
Wishing you a magical holiday season and a new year filled with glorious music and inspired artistry.
Thank you for a great 2025 - we are thankful for meeting each of you and look forward to welcoming you in 2026.

🌟SESSION TOPICS🌟

Your Career in the Driver’s Seat: Self-Producing for the Modern Singer©
November 17-23, 2025 | online

Zenaida des Aubris (International Cultural Events, Hangzhou Grand Theater, Palau de les Arts, Neue Stimmen Competition, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Classical Singer Convention Lecturer)

Zenaida brings decades of experience in producing on numerous continents, in wide range of formats and scale of production. She will speak about how to create a blueprint of a project, from concept to wrap-up, outline all points which need to be considered, and execute these with precision, imagination and resourcefulness. No matter how you cut the cake, the organizational elements and the sequences will be applicable to everything you do.

Program Info, Scholarships guidelines and Registration: https://www.operaprogramsberlin.com/selfproducing.html

🌟FACULTY SPOTLIGHT🌟

Your Career in the Driver’s Seat: Self-Producing for the Modern Singer©
November 17-23, 2025 | online

We are thrilled to welcome JOSHUA COLLIER to the faculty of our upcoming program! Joshua will be leading a session on Company/Organization Founding & Development on November 23.

American tenor, Joshua Collier, known for ”brimming with passion and sensuality” and having “delivered brilliant high notes as well as heart-wrenching tenderness” was hailed as “the quintessential Italianate tenor”  and “the real thing” for his portrayal of Cavaradossi in Puccini’s Tosca.
A graduate of The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Bachelor in Music - Vocal Performance) and The New England Conservatory (Masters in Music - Vocal Performance), he has performed throughout New England and beyond in many of the romantic tenor roles including: Calaf (Turandot); Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly); Turiddu (Cavalleria Rusticana); Alfredo Germont (La Traviata); Cavaradossi (Tosca); Rodolfo (La Boheme); and many others (Full CV available upon request). However, performing was not the only avenue for Collier’s artistic expression. 

In 2013, he founded the Bostonian opera company “Opera Brittenica” championing the works of British composer Benjamin Britten. Over the next 4 years, he produced rarely produced works of Britten, and became deeply interested in the production element of the operatic medium. 

After honing skills as a producer for 4 years, Collier relocated to Brandon, Vermont, and subsequently founded an opera company in a renovated barn, aptly called BARN OPERA. BARN OPERA was a project under the Compass Music and Arts Foundation for 3 years, where it produced 3 seasons of 4 full operatic productions annually, all conceived and directed by Collier. [complete biography on website]

Program Info and Registration: https://www.operaprogramsberlin.com/selfproducing.html