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This is a partial list of IVAI’s prestigious faculty:
JOAN DORNEMANN
IVAI Co-founder and Artistic Director
Ms. Dornemann, Metropolitan Opera Assistant Conductor, is one of the most highly respected opera coaches in the world today. She has worked with such singers as Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Sherrill Milnes, Kiri Te Kanawa, Montserrat Caballe, Deborah Voigt, Renée Fleming, Leo Nucci and others. She has been associated with the Gran Liceo in Barcelona, the Spoleto Festival, the New York City Opera, Opera National de Paris and the Kirov Opera. Ms. Dornemann has received an Emmy Award for her contribution to the highly acclaimed first Live From the Met first telecast of La Bohème. She is the author of Complete Preparation: A Guide to Auditioning for the Opera.
PAUL NADLER
Conductor, IVAI Co-founder and Director of Musical Activities
Since his debut in 1989, Maestro Nadler has led over 40 performances at the Metropolitan Opera, conducting some of today’s most renowned singers. Maestro Nadler is Music Director Emeritus of the Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Filarmonica de Stat Iasi (Romania). Iasi and Brasov. His extensive conducting career includes working with Opera Cleveland, National Opera Company of Bucharest Orchestra, Augsburg Symphony (Germany), Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Verbier Festival (Switzerland), Florida Philharmonic Orchestra and the Timisiora Symphony (Romania). Indianapolis Opera, Utah Opera, Calgary Opera, Florentine Opera, Minnesota Opera, Syracuse Opera, Orlando Opera and Hong Kong Opera
MASTER ARTISTS
| Mignon Dunn |
Mezzo-Soprano
Metropolitan Opera
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| Ruth Falcon |
Soprano
Metropolitan Opera
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| Abbie Furmansky |
Soprano
Deutsche Oper, Netherlands Opera,
New York City Opera, Los Angeles Opera
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COACHES, TEACHERS & CONDUCTORS
| Rainer Armbrust |
Coach, Conductor
Boston Wagner Society, Karlsruhe
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| Lucy Arner |
Coach, Conductor
Metropolitan Opera; Artistic Director, New York Chamber Opera
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| Richard Barrett |
Coach, Conductor
Head of Opera Department, Brooklyn College
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| Giovanna Canetti |
Teacher and Coach
Teatro alla Scala, Milano
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| Carlos Conde |
Vocal instruction and Stage Direction
IIVARTS, Opera de Puerto Rico, Teatro Lirico dÉuropa,
Inter American University, Juilliard School
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| Joan Dornemann |
Coach
Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Opera Paris
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| Mark Ensley |
Coach, Conductor
Director, University of Memphis Opera,
Opera Memphis
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Benton Hess |
Coach, Conductor
Eastman School of Music, Mercury Opera, Hess is
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| David Holkeboer |
Coach
Chamber Opera Theatre NY American Music Theatre
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| Liora Maurer |
Coach
Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera,
Wolf Trap Festival |
| Gerald Martin Moore |
Voice Teacher
Atelier Lyrique, Opera de Montreal,
Santa Fe Opera, Merola |
| Paul Nadler |
Music Director, Conductor - Metropolitan Opera;
Conductor Emeritus, S.W. Florida Symphony; Principal Guest Conductor, Filarmonica de Stat Iasi, Romania |
| David Rosenmeyer |
Coach, Conductor
Oratoria Society, Bach Society
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| Jane Steele |
Coach
New Jersey State Opera, Opera Colorado, International
Institute of Vocal Arts, Chiari Italy
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| Claude Webster |
Coach
Atelier lyrique of L'Opéra de Montréal
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| William Woodruff |
Coach
Metropolitan Opera; Artistic Director, IIVA,
Conservatorio de Musica de PR
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STAGE DIRECTORS
| Carlos Conde |
Vocal instruction and Stage Direction
IIVARTS, Opera de Puerto Rico, Teatro Lirico dÉuropa,
Inter American University, Juilliard School |
| Larry Edelson |
Founder and Producing Artistic Director American Lyric Theatre; Glimmerlgass Opera, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Hawaii Opera Theater, Sarasota Opera
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| Giovanna Maresta |
Teatro alla Scala, Bologna, Messina
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| David Paul |
Shakespeare Theatre, Washington DC; Washington National Opera
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| Joachim Schamberger |
Indianapolis Opera, Tampa Opera, Théâtre Municipal,
Castres, France, Stony Brook Conservatory
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| Tomer Zvulun |
Metropolitan Opera; Seattle Opera,
New York City Opera
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TECHNIQUE, LANGUAGE & MOVEMENT
| Robert Cowart |
Language Coach
Metropolitan Opera; Manhattan School of Music,
The Juilliard School
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| Hemdi Kfir |
Language Coach
Metropolitan Opera, Israeli Opera
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