Dramatic Voices Program Berlin

The Dramatic Voices Program Berlin is casting a few remaining roles in Wagner's Die Walküre and the Berlin Lieder Akademie & Festival. Train with world-class experts in an environment geared towards realistic career-building for the dramatic and spinto Fachs.

Positions for singers and pianists. No age limit. Scholarships available.

Applications received on a rolling basis until all roles / places are filled.
Available roles listed here: https://www.dramaticvoicesprogramberlin.com/die-walkuere26.html

We welcome back Boram Ahn, rehearsal pianist of Die Walküre!

Boram Ahn is a South Korean pianist based in Berlin. She has worked on a broad operatic repertoire in North America and Europe.Her recent engagements include the Staatsoper Berlin (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Fin de Partie by György Kurtág; children’s operas: Offenbachs Erzählungen – Eine Reise zum Mond und darüber hinaus, Träume – eine Nacht im Elfenwald), Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, Komische Oper Berlin, Theater Neustrelitz (Neues vom Tage by Paul Hindemith and Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny by Kurt Weill), Brandenburg Opera Retreat, Opéra du Grand Sud (Les pêcheurs de perles), and Académie Internationale de Musique Française Michel Plasson.

She has also been engaged by Theater Osnabrück (Fidelio, Der Bettelstudent), Landestheater Detmold (Der Fliegende Holländer, Rigoletto, Elegies for Young Lovers by Hans Werner Henze), Thüringer Schlossfestspiele Sondershausen (Anatevka), and Theater Nordhausen (Salome, Anatevka, Luisa Fernanda).In addition, she has worked with the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute, Brevard Music Festival, Lyric Opera Studio Weimar, Narnia Vocal Arts Festival, and Berlin Opera Academy as pianist and repetiteur. Since 2023, she has been a faculty member of the Dramatic Voices Program Berlin, where she has coached and performed in productions of Die Walküre, Elektra, and Ariadne auf Naxos.

The Nymphs announce the arrival of a stranger to Ariadne’s island with a gorgeous trio. Strauss writes such swoon-worthy music for three women. 😍

Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos (2025)
Naiad: Alexandra Thompson
Dryad: Lisa Barone
Echo: Lucy Schneider
Director: Richard Gammon
Conductor: Byron Knutson
Lights: Katri Kuusimäki
Photo: Dasha Buben

2026 Dramatic Voices Program Berlin
24 July - 18 August 2026
Wagner: Die Walküre
Applications open!
www.dramaticvoicesprogramberlin.com

We welcome back Rupert Dussmann, Music Coach of Die Walküre.

Born in Wales, Rupert Dussmann studied at Kings College London, Guildhall School of Music and the National Opera Studio. He has held permanent positions as a vocal coach and repetiteur at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Stuttgart Staastheater, the Hamburg Staatsoper followed by 14 years at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.

Over the years he has been a regular guest coach at Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam and has also guested in Germany (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Spain (Gran Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Perelada Festival and Orquesta Nacional de España in Madrid), Italy (Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari), France (Opéra de Nice, Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, Festival Aix-en-Provence), Austria (Salzburg Easter and Summer Festivals, Theater an der Wien and Bregenzer Festspiele), Australia (Sydney Opera House, Victoria State Theatre in Melbourne), USA (Ravinia Festival), Japan (New National Theatre Tokyo) and Israel (New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv). He has regularly worked with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Barenboim and Yannick Nézet-Séguin and many international singers such as Plácido Domingo, Rolando Villazón, Charles Castronovo, Sonia Yoncheva, René Pape and Dorothea Röschmann. He is a fluent speaker of English, French, German and Spanish and has a decent working knowledge of Russian.

2026 Dramatic Voices Program Berlin
24 July - 18 August 2026
Wagner: Die Walküre
Berlin Lieder Akademie & Festival
Applications open!
www.dramaticvoicesprogramberlin.com

🌟Casting: Wotan 🌟

The Dramatic Voices Program still has one spot open for the role of Wotan in Wagner’s Die Walküre. The opera will be performed with orchestra in Berlin this summer.

Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis. A complete list of available roles is on our website.

Information and application: https://www.dramaticvoicesprogramberlin.com

We welcome back Douglas Brown, Music Coach of Die Walküre.

Douglas Brown was born in London. After graduating from Cambridge University he was active as a pianist, composer and lecturer in Coventry. From 1979 he worked as a repetiteur and later as chorus master in Pretoria, South Africa. In 1983 he moved to Germany, working first for two seasons at the Stadttheater B​remerhaven and then from 1985 until 2016 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Since then he as continued to work freelance as a coach, conductor, composer and arranger.

2026 Dramatic Voices Program Berlin
24 July - 18 August 2026
Wagner: Die Walküre
Berlin Lieder Akademie & Festival
Applications open!
www.dramaticvoicesprogramberlin.com

🌟ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for PIANISTS AND SINGERS🌟

We are accepting applications for remaining vacancies for the Berlin Lieder Akademie & Festival. World-renowned faculty will guide participating artists in language coachings, voice or piano lessons, Lieder duos coachings, Lieder duo rehearsals, professional development sessions, agent auditions, career sessions, Masterclasses, and much more.

Artists will have the opportunity to prepare, rehearse and perform German Lieder in one of the premiere concert churches in Berlin ​as part of the Berlin Lieder Akademie & Festival.

There are also some roles available for the Dramatic Voices Program Berlin’s 2026 production of Die Walküre. In most cases, there is only one spot left, and applications will be evaluated as they are received. Check the website for a list of available roles, updated every Monday!

Information and application: https://www.dramaticvoicesprogramberlin.com

We welcome back Alexandra von Roepke, German Language Coach.

Alexandra von Roepke is a versatile, internationally-recognised mezzo-soprano from Berlin, at home both on opera stages in Europe and Asia, as well as in concert halls such as Leipzig's Gewandhaus and Berliner Philharmonie and other venues including the Vatican.
Lately she has directed academic programs in Berlin on the works of Richard Wagner and has given concert lectures on Gustav Mahler’s Lied von der Erde in the United States, in New York City and Concord/NH in 2018 and 2019 respectively. In 2021, she also collaborated with several Japanese universities and conservatoires to provide five intensive courses on the subject of diction and pronunciation in the German Lieder repertoire via Zoom to students and professors alike.
In her teaching she not only aims to convey the words, structures and skills necessary for speaking the German language, but also a deep knowledge of their origins and the reasons for their unique characteristics, to allow her students to profoundly master and own this language, among the most spoken and musically performed languages globally.

2026 Dramatic Voices Program Berlin
24 July - 18 August 2026
Wagner: Die Walküre
Berlin Lieder Akademie & Festival
Applications open!
www.dramaticvoicesprogramberlin.com

🌟STILL CASTING as of March 2, 2026🌟

For the Dramatic Voices Program Berlin’s 2026 production of Die Walküre, there are still spots available for the following roles:
Wotan
Brünnhilde cover
Sieglinde cover
Siegmund
Hunding
Helmwige
Gerhilde
Ortlinde
Roßweiße
Grimgerde
Schwertleite

For most of these roles, there is only one spot left, and applications will be evaluated as they are received. Check our website and socials every Monday for an updated list of available roles!

There are also remaining spots for Singes and Pianists for the Berlin Lieder Akademie & Festival.

Information and application: https://www.dramaticvoicesprogramberlin.com

YAP Tracker :: Dramatic Voices Program Berlin 2026: Priority Deadline December 1 (one week left)! ONE WEEK - December 1st is the application deadline for priority casting in Wagner's Die Walküre and placement in the Berlin Lieder Akademie & Festival with the Dramatic Voices Program Berlin 2026. Train with world-class faculty in the heart of one of Europe's opera capitals. July 24-August 18, 202...

We welcome back Carol Mastrodomenico, voice faculty.

Carol Mastrodomenico maintains an active schedule as a guest soloist with choruses, orchestras and other ensembles. She excels in the interpretation of oratorio, and has appeared recently in Poulenc’s Gloria, Beethoven’s Mass in C and Ninth Symphony, Brahms’ Requiem, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Requiem, Mahler’s Second Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42, Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Fauré’s Requiem.
Ms. Mastrodomenico’s students can be heard singing throughout the United States, Europe, and South America. They have been accepted into graduate and undergraduate programs at Julliard, Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory of Music, Eastman School of Music, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Texas at Austin, University of North Texas, Cleveland Institute of Music, University of Miami, Frost School of Music, Michigan State University, University of Maryland at College Park, Ithaca College, Guild Hall and The Royal Academy of Music in London. Her singers regularly attend young artist programs at Houston Grand Opera Outreach Program, Central City, Berlin Song Festival, Edinburgh Music Festival and Halifax Opera Festival.
Ms. Mastrodomenico received her Master of Music degrees in Vocal Performance and Vocal Pedagogy at New England Conservatory of Music. She is on the voice faculties of Longy School of Music of Bard College and Tufts University.

2026 Dramatic Voices Program Berlin
24 July - 18 August 2026
Wagner: Die Walküre
Berlin Lieder Akademie & Festival
Applications open!
www.dramaticvoicesprogramberlin.com

🌟STILL CASTING as of February 23, 2026🌟

For the Dramatic Voices Program Berlin’s 2026 production of Die Walküre, there are still spots available for the following roles:
Wotan
Sieglinde cover
Siegmund
Hunding
Helmwige
Gerhilde *new*
Ortlinde
Roßweiße
Grimgerde
Schwertleite

For most of these roles, there is only one spot left, and applications will be evaluated as they are received. Check our website and socials every Monday for an updated list of available roles!

Information and application: https://www.dramaticvoicesprogramberlin.com