Guild Hall & Bel Canto Boot Camp Resident Artist Series
The Guild Hall & Bel Canto Boot Camp Resident Artist Series is a collaboration between Guild Hall of East Hampton and Bel Canto Boot Camp. By providing individualized training from Bel Canto Boot Camp mentors and masterclasses with international artists, the series aims to support a new generation of emerging opera singers and to increase awareness and appreciation of the unamplified voice.
The 2023 Guild Hall & Bel Canto Boot Camp Resident Artists include soprano Siskelelwe Mngenela, soprano Elizabeth Novella, mezzo-soprano Anne Marie Stanley, tenor Derrek Stark, bass-baritone Michael Leyte-Vidal, and baritone David Wolfe.
The 2023 Series will welcome today’s most in-demand lyric coloratura soprano, Lisette Oropesa. During her week in residency at Guild Hall, Oropesa will lead a masterclass with six of the GH & BCBC Resident Artists and perform a solo recital featuring duets and ensemble numbers with the resident artists.
Applications for the 2023 Resident Artist Series are now closed.
About Bel Canto Boot Camp
Bel Canto Boot Camp was born during the pandemic when we reached out to singers around the world – singers who had no place and seemingly no reason to sing. To be honest, we needed to find a way to feed our own souls as well while we were cut off from music making – something we never even considered could possibly happen. We created The Vaccai Project – a unique online training course for singers. Just short of two thousand singers from America to South Africa, from Columbia to Russia practiced together for the day when stages would be open to them again and theaters would be filled with audiences. We discovered a beautiful new way to support singers – beautiful in its inclusivity, its expansion of the richness of the New York opera community to artists all over the world, the breaking of often prohibitive barriers of distance, cost, time and audition-only programs.
Now, as the world continues to emerge from Covid-19, Bel Canto Boot Camp strives to support artists in the physical world as we did (and continue to do) virtually. Our ability to work in person with singers is now supported by an online platform allowing us to stay in contact when we cannot be there physically. Additionally BCBC allows singers, teachers, and presenters to network effectively with each other in the ever growing BCBC community. belcantobootcamp.com
The Guild Hall and Bel Canto Boot Camp Resident Artist Series is supported by the Law Office of Natascia Ayers, Alexandre and Lori Chemla, Barbara Horgan, Ellen E. Myers, and Michéle and Steve Pesner, with additional support provided by Jan and Marilyn Breslow, Stan Herman, the Jeannette and H. Peter Kriendler Charitable Trust, Cornelia and Lawrence Randolph, Janet C. Ross,David Seeler and Ngaere Macray,Irene Silverman, and Barbara Toll.
Public funding provided by Suffolk County
All Musical Programming supported in part by The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming.
Guild Hall’s Learning +New Works programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional major support comes from The Patti Kenner Arts Education Fellowship, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Endowment Fund, and The Melville Straus Family Endowment.
