Georgetown University, D.C.
Voice for the Musical Theater Stage
| Session1 | 2011 Dates Coming Soon! |
| Ages | 12 - 18 |
| Tuition | $1200 |
| Commuter | $775 |
| Audition | No Audition Required |
Tuition includes room and meals
Commuter Tuition includes lunch
Grade entering in Fall 2010
Develop your vocal technique in this premier program in Voice for the Musical Theater Stage.
Camp/Workshop Details
Program Director: Harolyn BlackwellBroadway artists, professional faculty, and students with a passion for singing join together for this 6-day intensive voice camp. Daily workshops in developing vocal technique, sight-reading, broadening vocal performance styles from classical and Broadway belt to pop, and the basics of acting for the singer. Classes provide group sessions as well as one-on-one coaching. Evening activities include a backstage tour of the Kennedy Center and interactive workshops on how to sell the lyrics of a song, building vocal repertoire for auditions, and how to find and select new material to sing.
* Additional Camp/Workshop InformationStudents check-in between 2 - 3:30pm on the first day of camp. Residential Students will be housed at LXR Hall. Flights should arrive into Reagan (DCA) or Dulles (IAD) on the First Day of camp between 10am and 2pm. Flights should depart from Reagan (DCA) or Dulles (IAD) on the last day of camp after 7pm. Transportation is available to and from Reagan (DCA) or Dulles (IAD) for $30 each way. |
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Directors and Faculty
Harolyn Blackwell
Workshop Director
Harolyn Blackwell was born in Washington D.C. She attended Catholic University where she studied voice. Following college, Blackwell began her career on Broadway when Leonard Bernstein hand picked her for the role of Maria in the 1980 revival of West Side Story. In 1983, Blackwell won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and her career path reoriented towards opera. "It fit so naturally," she explains of the then new foray into opera, "it was as if I'd put on a pair of old shoes." Following her win, Blackwell apprenticed and excelled at the Chicago Lyric Opera for a year. In 1987 she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Poussette in Manon. Since then Blackwell's career has flourished. She has appeared several more times with the Metropolitan Opera in productions such as Un ballo in maschera, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Fledermaus, and Werther. Most notably, in 1994 Blackwell replaced Kathleen Battle as Marie in La fille du regiment for the entire run when Battle was fired from the Met.
Blackwell has performed with many major national and international opera companies, and at festivals around the world, including Lyric Opera of Chicago, Glyndebourne (as Clara in Porgy and Bess, subsequently issued on CD), Teatro Colon de Buenos Aires, Seattle Opera, Opera de Nice, Miami Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Opera Orchestra of New York, New York's Mostly Mozart Festival, Tulsa Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Netherlands Opera. In 1990 Blackwell performed at the Grammy Awards. In 1997 Blackwell returned to Broadway to star as Cunegonde in Bernstein's Candide. In 1999 Blackwell was invited to perform at the Vatican for Pope John Paul II's 80th birthday.
To date these are some of the roles Blackwell has performed on the stages of major Opera houses: Lucia from Lucia di Lammermoor, Lakme from Lakme, Gilda from Rigoletto, Nanetta from Falstaff, Zdenka from Arabella, Constance from Les Dialogues des Carmelites, Marzelline from Fidelio, Blondchen from Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Giulietta from I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and Clara from Porgy and Bess.
Also an accomplished singer of the concert repertoire and recitalist, she has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Oslo Philharmonic, the New Jersey Symphony, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops and the London Symphony Orchestra. Her concert work has included performances of Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Haydn's Die Schopfung, Andre Previn's Honey and Rue, Mahler's Symphony No.4, Mozart's Requiem, and Orff's Carmina Burana among many others. Blackwell has also performed in many acclaimed concert series and given many lauded recitals over the years. She has performed at London's Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, The San Francisco Performance Series at the Herbst Theatre and the Ambassador Foundation Performing Arts Series in Los Angeles.
Location Information
Experience an exciting summer in Washington, D.C. with US Performing Arts, as we celebrate our fifth year in the nation's capital. Located in the District's historic neighborhood of Foggy Bottom, students will reside on the campus of Georgetown University. With its ideal northwest locale, Georgetown University is within easy visiting of all the historic sites in our nation's capital and steps away from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. These are fantastic programs to coincide with a family vacation to Washington, D.C.
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Dates, Directors, and Faculty subject to change without notice. The faculty is comprised of college professors representing their schools and professional industry artists. Images are of USPA programs, but may not represent actual program or location. Photos by Tito Deverya (UCLA TFT), and Lauren di Matteo.
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