Georg Solti Accademia

Introducing Redmond Sanders! Recipient of the Thierry Mermod Prize at the Verbier Festival 2024, baritone Redmond Sanders joined the Opera School at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2024. He will join the Young Artist Program in September 2026.

Performance highlights include; Antonio in Le Nozze Di Figaro, his international debut on the main stage at the Verbier Festival; Ein Capadoccier, Salome, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano; and the title role in Owen Wingrave, Britten at the GSMD.

Redmond returns to as a member of the Atelier Lyrique to cover Germont and sing Baron Douphol in Verdi’s La Traviata this summer.

Introducing Emilio Vásquez! A native of Manvel, Texas, Emilio is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Opera at the Curtis Institute of Music as the William J. Fenza Fellow.

Recent performances include Demetrius in the 2026 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Pangloss in Candide, and Schaunard in La bohème.

He has appeared twice as a Gerdine Young Artist with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and as a Steans Vocal Fellow at , and has participated in master classes with Jake Heggie, Lawrence Brownlee, Ana María Martínez, and Paul Groves.

Over the next few weeks we’ll be introducing our 2026 Bel Canto Course Participants— watch this space!

Meet Ferdinand Muradyan (Bass, Armenia). Ferdinand is in his second year at Mascarade Opera, performing in the role of Zuniga in Carmen at the Staatstheater Augsburg, and Gralsritter in Parsifal at Nationaltheater Mannheim. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Opera Performance from Yerevan State Conservatory in 2021, and joined the Young Artist Opera Program under the guidance of Levon Javadyan at the National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet. Ferdinand has performed as a soloist with the Tagharan ancient music ensemble, the National Academic Choir of Armenia, and the Musical Comedy Theatre. In 2023, he was a finalist in the International Vocal Competition “Opera Crown” in Tbilisi, Georgia, and won 3rd place at the International Competition “ROMANSIADA” in Moscow, Russia.

Read more about Ferdinand and our other participants on our website! Link in bio.

A magical place to make music. Each room at is beautiful and distinct, and our répétiteurs fill each one with music over the course of ten days on the island.

📸 Reg Stewart

Looking back on a beautiful final concert at Fondazione Cini for the 2026 Solti-Peretti Répétiteur Course— thank you to all who came to see our wonderful young artists perform!

Pianists (2nd 📸, left to right)
Giancarlo Llerena
Fengyi Wang
Monica Tang
Christopher Knopp
Alistair Burton
Alexander Dakin

Yesterday evening the participants of the Répétiteur Course gave an intimate concert at the stunning Redentore Gardens on the island of Giudecca, featuring piano duet, aria, art song, and Lavignac’s Galop-Marche for eight hands! Scroll to hear a bit of the Cat Duet, performed by Emma Kajander, Miranda Robertson, and Chris Knopp.

📸 Group photo of our fabulous répétiteurs, singers, faculty and staff (missing one Maestro Papp!) under the Venetian sun after a run-through of the aria programme— join us at Fondazione Cini for our final concert on Friday at 18:00!

We’re so grateful for the generous support of for making this course possible.

Venice at dawn: today marks the start to the 2026 Solti-Peretti Répétiteur Course! Looking forward to the next 10 days of music making at the beautiful .

Please join us in welcoming Alexander Dakin, our last participant in the 2026 Solti-Peretti Répétiteur Course this year. Alexander is currently studying at Guildhall, and previously worked for Opera North as their Learning and Engagement Accompanist. As a composer, he has had pieces performed by the Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Oxford Philharmonic.

 

The Solti-Peretti Répétiteur Course is made possible with the generous support of the Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation, New Generation Foundation, Giorgio Cini Foundation, and Mascarade Opera Foundation.

       

We look forward to welcoming Alistair Burton in Venice this April, one of the six participants on our Solti-Peretti Répétiteur Course this year. Alistair was a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio for 2024/25, and will work as a repetiteur on Das Rheingold for Grange Park Opera this year.

 

The Solti-Peretti Répétiteur Course is made possible with the generous support of the Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation, New Generation Foundation, Giorgio Cini Foundation, and Mascarade Opera Foundation.