Teaching units and staff
Assistant conductor technique and practice
Umberto Finazzi, piano accompanist, instructor of performance and theatre repertoire at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Milan, creative director and conductor of Opera Studio Ticino Musica
- From orchestra scores to music for voice and piano and the performance of arias and pieces from the opera repertoire
- Stylistic, philological, interpretive, and traditional aspects
- Preparation of singers for opera roles or recitals; piano accompaniment in voice recitals
Prompter techniques
Dante Mazzola, orchestra conductor, former prompter at Teatro alla Scala
- Technique and practice of conducting
- Role and technique of the prompter, from choir rehearsals to stage rehearsals and recitals, the role of the assistant conductor
- Fundamental operas and opera pieces, from Mozart to Puccini and the veristi
Rehearsal pianist technique
Beatrice Benzi, Teatro alla Scala rehearsal pianist
Paolo Spadaro Munitto, Teatro alla Scala rehearsal pianist and conductor
- From the orchestra score to music for voice and piano to piano performance
- The work of the rehearsal pianist in the theatre: preparing singers for their roles, voice rehearsals, assistance to the orchestra conductor, audition accompaniment
- Piano accompaniment in voice recitals
German opera repertoire
James Vaughan, first rehearsal pianist, Teatro alla Scala
- From the orchestra score to music for voice and piano to piano performance of arias and pieces from the German opera repertoire, from Mozart to Richard Strauss
- The work of the rehearsal pianist in the theatre: preparing singers for their roles, voice rehearsals, assistance to the orchestra conductor, audition accompaniment
- Piano accompaniment in voice recitals
Russian opera repertoire
Yulia Levin, rehearsal pianist and assistant conductor at Opernhaus Zurich, Salzburg Festival, Opéra de Lyon, Festival de Aix-en-Provence
- Fundamental arias and pieces from the Russian repertoire from Mussorgsky to Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Shostakovich
- The work of the rehearsal pianist in the theatre: preparing singers for their roles, voice rehearsals, assistance to the orchestra conductor
- Piano accompaniment in voice recitals
Rossini repertoire
Michele D’Elia, rehearsal pianist and assistant conductor at Rossini Opera Festival and other music theatres and institutions
- Fundamental arias and pieces from the Rossini repertoire; stylistic, philological, interpretive, and traditional aspects
- Recitativo secco
- Piano accompaniment in voice recitals
Elements of conducting – Stage band conducting techniques
Bruno Nicoli, Teatro alla Scala orchestra and stage band conductor
- Technique and practice of conducting
- The stage band, from the rehearsal room to the stage
- Operas and pieces from the essential opera repertoire, from Mozart to Puccini
Choir master technique
Alberto Malazzi, Teatro alla Scala choir director
- Choral, operatic, and sacred repertoire
- Preparation and directing the choir, from the section rehearsals to the stage or concert hall
- Piano accompanist for the choir
German
Cristina Maruzzi, German and English teacher at language schools, associations, and vocational schools; Italian teacher for foreign students in the Erasmus Program at Bocconi University
- Grammar
- Pronunciation
- Reading, conversation
Practical exercises
Performances
Sight-reading
Beatrice Benzi, Teatro alla Scala rehearsal pianist
Paolo Spadaro Munitto, Teatro alla Scala rehearsal pianist and conductor
- Impromptu execution, after brief review of formal structure and fundamental musical elements, of an operatic work read from the voice and piano parts of the orchestral score
Italian for foreigners
Alessia Benenti, Italian teacher
- Grammar
- Pronunciation
- Reading, conversation
Bibliographic resources for musicians
Andrea Massimo Grassi, musician, musicologist, teacher
- Research into music historical, styles, and interpretation with a focus on opera
- Printed materials: scores, manuscripts, encyclopedias, books, periodicals, catalogues, letters, essays, etc.
- Web resources
Creative essence and styles of musical languages
Emanuele Ferrari, concert pianist, musicologist, essayist, docent at the University of Milano-Bicocca
- Interactive lesson-concerts of famous compositions from the classical and modern piano repertoire, with formal analysis and study of the connections between the composer’s formal choices and their ethical, aesthetic, cultural, and spiritual messages.