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2025 young artists program

Our Young Artists Program applications are LIVE! Available opportunities include roles for Singers, Pianists/Coaches, Assistant Directors, and Assistant Conductors.

Program Dates

May 28, 2025 – August 17, 2025

THE 2025 SEASON: 50 YEARS OF GLIMMERGLASS

The Glimmerglass Festival’s 2025 Season runs from July 11–August 17, 2025, and opens with Tosca (Puccini/Illica & Giacosa) and continues with Sunday in The Park With George (Sondheim/Sondheim & Lapine), The Rake’s Progress (Stravinsky/Auden & Kallman), and the World Premiere of The House on Mango Street, based on the classic book, and a libretto by renowned and celebrated author Sandra Cisneros with a score by Grammy Award-nominee Derek Bermel. The Festival is also proud to bring former Artistic Director Francesca Zambello’s acclaimed original production of Odyssey (Moore/Rourke) to the Alice Busch Opera Theater for the first time. Read the Press Release here.

Program Information

The Young Artists Program was established at Glimmerglass in 1988 as an important component of the company’s mission to promote an artistically stimulating environment for young performers. The program provides training and performance experience for talented singers at the beginning of their professional careers.

The Young Artists Program is distinguished from many other apprentice programs in the variety and quality of the opportunities it provides its members, most of whom have recently completed or are completing their academic studies. Many have already begun professional careers, singing with regional/national companies. For three months, Young Artists are treated as professionals and provided with compensation, a place to live, and transportation.

The focus of the program is on education through performance. Young Artists receive opportunities in mainstage productions, working with world-class directors, designers, and conductors.

Members of the Young Artists Program sing principal and supporting roles, cover all roles in mainstage productions, sing in the chorus, are presented in concerts, receive coachings, participate in performance classes, and perform in the community. In addition to rehearsing and performing, Young Artists attend specialized classes, and are given instruction in such skills as audition techniques, role preparation, and the business aspects of managing a career.

Administrators from many of the world’s leading opera houses and artist managers visit Glimmerglass to hear the Young Artists in performance and auditions. Many of the Young Artists are offered roles or representation as a result of their appearances at Glimmerglass.

To learn more about The Glimmerglass Festival:
https://glimmerglass.org/commitment/
https://glimmerglass.org/about/

Questions? Email yap_info@glimmerglass.org.