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The study programmes at the Department for Vocal Studies are tailored to the needs of singers in the 21st century, who can take on roles with demanding physical requirements and are also trained to work with colleagues, directors and conductors from all over the world. The renowned faculty inspires and encourages students to find their own voice and develop it at their own pace. Numerous opportunities to gain stage experience in the immediate vicinity of the Salzburg Festival round out the programme.

Schwarzstraße 26
5020 Salzburg

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Voice training already played an important role when the Mozarteum was founded in 1841, and this is no different today. The expectations placed on today's singers, however, have changed considerably: in addition to excellent vocal and musical qualities, performing skills are also a must for successful singers. The study programme prepares students for the many realities of life as a singer.

In addition, the vocal pedagogy courses offer a practice-oriented, artistic, pedagogical and academic education. The interdisciplinary and diverse nature of these courses represents a contemporary preparation for a range of future professional fields in a changing professional world.

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  • © Wolf Silveri
    23.6.2025
    Medusa Giuditta 

    Caught between Baroque and contemporary music, Kai Röhrig and Florentine Klepper's opera class set out in search of clues with ‘Medusa / Giuditta’, following on from the successful double bill ‘Elissa / Dido & Aeneas’ in 2023.

    Opera production
  • © Wolf Silveri
    10.6.2025
    When eras collide 

    Armela Madreiter, graduate of the Mozarteum University and dramaturge for the current music theatre production by Florentine Klepper and Kai Röhrig's opera class, Medusa / Giuditta, talks about fruitful collaboration, exciting female characters and crossing boundaries.

    Interview
  • Cecilia Bartolis & Silvana Bazzoni Bartoli | © MusicArtManagement
    27.5.2025
    Masterclass for Voice with Silvana Bazzoni Bartoli 

    The only voice teacher Cecilia Bartoli has ever had is her mother, the soprano Silvana Bartoli Bazzoni. We are delighted to announce that from 4 to 8 August 2025, professional singers of all voice types will have the unique opportunity to work personally with Silvana Bartoli Bazzoni on ‘fundamental principles of vocal technique - the basis of a long singing life’ in a masterclass as part of the International Summer Academy at Mozarteum University. Registration is open now.

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Performance
11.8.2025
Labyrinth der Sinne: Opening 
© Christian Schneider
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Performance
11.8.2025
Labyrinth der Sinne: Songs between heaven and earth 
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Performance
11.8.2025
Labyrinth der Sinne: Litany for the Whale 
© Michael Klimt
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Opera
16.7.2025
La Bohème | Akt IV (Highlight) (Opera Out Of Opera 2) 
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Opera
16.7.2025
La Bohème 360° Orchestra View (Opera Out Of Opera 2) 
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Events

  • 21.11.2025
    01:00 pm
    Chorsaal - Universität Mozarteum am Kurgarten
    Die Landschaft des Exils
    Musik. Mobility. Exil.
  • 22.11.2025
    10:00 am
    Chorsaal - Universität Mozarteum am Kurgarten
    Die Landschaft des Exils
    Musik. Mobility. Exil.
  • 6.12.2025
    04:00 pm
    Max Schlereth Saal
    LAUT:SPRECHER
    Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue
    In einer außergewöhnlichen Doppelaufführung bringt die Opernklasse von Florentine Klepper & Kai Röhrig zwei Opern auf die Bühne, die – mittelbar und unmittelbar – unter dem Eindruck von Verfolgung und Entrechtung im Dritten Reich entstanden sind. Ihre künstlerische Kraft bewegt und mahnt bis heute.
  • 8.12.2025
    04:30 pm
    Kleines Studio
    LAUT:SPRECHER
    Klavier-Recital
    Klaviersonaten Nr. 5, Nr. 6 und Nr. 7 von Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944): Die 3 Theresienstädter Sonaten, mit Eric Chumachenco (Klavier), im Rahmen des Themenschwerpunktes „LAUT:SPRECHER - Viktor Ullmann und Simon Laks in dunklen Zeiten“
    Concert
    · Free
  • 9.12.2025
    07:00 pm
    Max Schlereth Saal
    LAUT:SPRECHER
    Der Kaiser von Atlantis & L’Hirondelle inattendue
    In einer außergewöhnlichen Doppelaufführung bringt die Opernklasse von Florentine Klepper & Kai Röhrig zwei Opern auf die Bühne, die – mittelbar und unmittelbar – unter dem Eindruck von Verfolgung und Entrechtung im Dritten Reich entstanden sind. Ihre künstlerische Kraft bewegt und mahnt bis heute.
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Opera productions

  • © Wolf Silveri
    23.6.2025
    Medusa Giuditta 

    Caught between Baroque and contemporary music, Kai Röhrig and Florentine Klepper's opera class set out in search of clues with ‘Medusa / Giuditta’, following on from the successful double bill ‘Elissa / Dido & Aeneas’ in 2023.

    Opera production
  • © Judith Buss
    25.5.2025
    Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Don Giovanni 

    Mozart's opera Don Giovanni deals with the mythologically charged subject of the womaniser and libertine Don Juan. The focus is on an unscrupulous nobleman who lives excessively, seduces women and even murders – until he is finally brought to account by a higher power. The story is deeply rooted in moral issues and raises questions of guilt, abuse of power and punishment.

    Opera production
  • © Christian Schneider
    31.1.2025
    Christian Jost: Poet's love 

    Opera production
  • © Judith Buss
    15.12.2024
    Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi 

    The performance of Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi delivered a powerful reinterpretation of the masterpiece. Directed by Alexander von Pfeil, the production centred on the relentless feud between two rival clans and the profound despair of its victims. This staging transcended specific eras, placing the story in a universal, timeless setting that brought Bellini's dark vision of love and war to the stage with harrowing clarity.

    Opera production
  • © Judith Buss
    26.6.2024
    Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro 

    As a play, La Folle journée by the scandalous author Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais was banned in Vienna. However, Mozart and Da Ponte were able to suggest to Emperor Joseph II that the genre of opera would defuse the revolutionarily objectionable text and were thus commissioned to compose and write the libretto. The question of whether they did not in fact intensify the play in other ways is one that is posed anew in every production. With Le nozze di Figaro, Gernot Sahler and Alexander von Pfeil's opera class continued their Da Ponte cycle, which began with Così fan tutte in May 2023.

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  • © Wolf Silveri
    20.5.2024
    Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff 

    Sir John Falstaff is a natural phenomenon: his appearance is imposing, his demeanour commanding, his manner possessive. And most fascinating of all: the event does not care about rules, conventions or decorum, it simply exists for its own sake, in a sense for nothing but its belly.

    Opera production
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Barbara Emilia Schedel

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Angelika Luz

Lecturer in New Music (Voice/Performance Practice)

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Regina Prasser

Senior Lecturer for Voice, Elocution / Rhetoric, Children & Youth Voice Education (Music Education)

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