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The Associazione Rome Festival Coro Volontario Internazionale - International Volunteer Chorus  invites volunteer choral singers from around the world to join in its professional level performances of great works by Verdi, Donizetti, Bizet, and others with the reknown Rome Festival Orchestra (27 June to 12 July, 2010).  The Rome Festival has been continuously compared favorably to the prestigious Rome Opera.

 

WHAT YOU WILL DO AS A VOLUNTEER CHORAL SINGER

 

You will live in the heart of the inspirational historic center of Rome.  You will choose from several lodging options. 

 

With the Rome Festival Concert Chorus you will rehearse daily and perform two to four works with the Rome Festival Orchestra and two to six works for chorus alone or with piano under the artistic leadership of Maestro Fritz Maraffi and other international conductors.

 

In the summer of 2010 you will perform with the Rome Festival Concert Chorus and Rome Festival Orchestra: Beloved Choruses of Opera and Oratorio by Italian composers, Verdi, Donizetti, and Puccini (as excerpts in a gala concert of favorite Italian choral music).  

 

You will  participate in diction classes. 

 

If you request the opportunity, you will sing in vocal master classes. 

 

You may request the opportunity of performing on-stage in the opera "L'elisir d'amore"  by Donizetti. 

 

If you conduct, you may participate in the conductors' seminar. 

 

You will visit the cultural treasures of the "eternal city" to learn how they inspired composers.  

 

You will meet instrumentalists, singers, and  ballet dancers from all over the United States, Italy, and at least nine other countries. Through these artists you will network worldwide.