National Opera Studio

At the National Opera Studio, we offer one of the world’s most formative experiences for young opera singers and repetiteurs who are about to take the biggest step of all into a fully professional career. Working closely with our partner opera companies, we take the utmost care to select singers with the greatest potential and provide them with a nine-month programme that includes, at its heart, exposure to a great range the skills needed to be an opera singer working at the highest level.

There are around 12 singers and four repetiteurs who are accepted onto our Young Artist Programme each year. That helps us give our full attention to every person as well as to the collective. The balance between individual work while creating a company ethos is central to what we do.

The 2022/23 Young Artists' Programme is full-time and runs from September 2022 to June 2023.

There is no upper age limit for applying to the NOS. However, applicants are reminded that the Young Artists' Programme is very intensive and is intended to benefit extremely gifted singers and repetiteurs who are at the beginning of their professional operatic careers. Although it is not a formal requirement, applicants are expected to have significant performance experience and to have been training, in some form, for a number of years.

The First Round of auditions will be by video submission, and you will be asked to submit your recordings by 11:59pm on Thursday 13 January 2022. All applications must be submitted using YAP Tracker and there will be a fee of £25 which will include the submission of your first round video audition. Find out more about video audition requirements and submitting your videos on our website.