The 14 singers are joined by the academy orchestra – consisting of 33 young musicians and their professional mentors and group leaders from renowned opera and symphony orchestras in the Nordic countries and Austria. The concert master is Maxim Brilinsky, 1st violinist from the Wiener Philharmoniker.

The song students have been coached by pedagogues and renowned singers like Swedish baritone Peter Mattei, famed for his role as Don Giovanni at The Met and several other opera houses – together with Solveig Kringlebotn and the Wagner-expert Albert Dohmen.

The four conductor students will also get the chance to conduct the orchestra, coached in advance by Bergen National Opera's artistic director Eivind Gullberg Jensen and his conductor colleague Sascha Goetzel. The stage director for Don Giovanni and Hansel and Gretel is Ivar Tindberg.

The video below:
Listen to soprano Annika Beinnes performing Je veux vivre by Charles Gounod at Opera by the fjord summer 2022, conducted by the fellow academist Rasmus Hella Mikkelsen.

WHAT IS THE SUMMER ACADEMY?
The summer academy Opera by the fjord is aimed at students who are currently in education, or who have recently graduated. Our top team of coaches all have experience from renowned opera houses and symphony orchestras.

Our academy is unique in that singers can rehearse and perform together with an orchestra, in a staged situation, as well as in concert arias. The training program is put into a larger context and will go beyond simply vocal training.

The conductor students will get a tailor-made mentoring in the specialist skills required to be an opera conductor, and two repetiteur students are also joining.

Photos from the Opera at the fjord concerts 2021, 2022 and 2023:

Opera by the fjord - Summer Academy is presented by Bergen National Opera in collaboration med Oseana kunst- og kultursenter, and is supported by Grieg Foundation, Sparebankstiftelsen DnB, Talent Norge, Vestland fylkeskommune, Sparebank1 SR-Bank og SR-stiftelsen and The GC Rieber Foundations.