Plácido Domingo presides over the final phase of auditions at the Centre de Perfeccionament
19.06.2014
<108 candidates from America, Asia and Europe have participated in the selection process
Songs from Hell and Gypsy Ballads
Valencia. Plácido Domingo presided over the final phase of auditions to select the sixth class of artists at the Centre de Perfeccionament that bears his name at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía.
The project, based at the Teatre Martín i Soler, has received 108 applications from singers of various nationalities. The selection process has attracted the interest of young performers from the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
The Centre de Perfeccionament's activities are aimed at candidates who possess artistic and vocal qualities, a predisposition towards the artistic world, as well as a solid technical preparation that allows for improvement and practical training in an opera house.
The main objective of this high-performance center is to prepare young singers for their professional integration into a lyrical setting through highly qualified training, in order to develop a solid technical, theatrical and cultural foundation of a high level.
The selected students will receive instruction from qualified teachers, attend meetings and masterclasses with orchestra conductors, stage directors, singers, and other artists and professionals involved in the current season's productions and events at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía. They will also attend rehearsals for the operas and concerts scheduled as part of the theater's program.
The sixth class of the Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo will begin its training activities at the Palau de les Arts on September 15th and will run until June 30th, 2015.
Since its inception, the artists of the Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo have actively participated in the casts of the productions that make up the Valencian arts center's season. Likewise, the young singers offer their own performances and operatic productions at the Teatre Martín i Soler.
Protagonists of the second fortnight of the VII Mediterrani Festival
In fact, the artists who make up this project, in collaboration with Berklee College of Music, are starring in the second fortnight of activities of the VII Festival del Mediterrani.
Under the artistic direction of Davide Livermore, the singers offer a double program with the shows Cánticos desde el infierno and Romancero gitano , the result of the collaboration between the Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo and Berklee College of Music.
Songs from Hell is a modern opera by the Italian composer Andrea Chenna, with a libretto by Ramón Sampedro, based on the complex life story of this Galician sailor and writer, which premieres in Spain on June 20 with more performances on June 22 and 26.
Andrea Chenna himself will conduct the music, while Davide Livermore will direct the stage production. The cast includes mezzo-soprano Manuela Custer, singers Cristina Alunno and Hyekyung Choi from the Centre de Perfeccionament, and actress Anna Moret.
Gypsy Ballads , featuring the renowned actress Rossy de Palma, includes the voices of artists from the Centre de Perfeccionament Federica Alfano, Mariam Battistelli, Valentino Buzza, and Germán Olvera, and the guitar of Luis Regidor Paín from Berklee. Brian Cole, Dean of Berklee Valencia, is the musical director of this production. The musical transcription of Lorca's work premieres on June 21. The Teatre Martín i Soler will host two more performances of this production on June 27 and 28.
