Sir Georg Solti
Photo: Alan Warren
The Georg Solti Accademia has announced its 20th anniversary celebration, marking two decades of training young talent in the technique and style of Italian Bel Canto, and continuing the operatic legacy of the British-Hungarian conductor Georg Solti. A celebration concert will take place on October 20th, 2024, co-produced with the Hungarian State Opera and singers Aigul Akhmetshina, Freddie De Tommaso, Hera Hyesang Park, and Paul Grant, all of whom are also alumni of the Georg Solti Accademia.
Over the past two decades, the Georg Solti Accademia has grown into a most important training grounds for emerging opera singers and répétiteurs
Led by Jonathan Papp (Artistic Director, Principal Vocal Coach, & Founder), Candice Wood (Executive Director & Founder), and Jonathan Lakeland (Associate Director), the Accademia’s had guest teachers including Richard Bonynge, Angela Gheorghiu, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Federica Von Stade, Carlo Rizzi, Leo Nucci, Sir Thomas Allen, and Jose Carreras, among many others.
Founded in 2004 by the late Valerie Solti, Candice Wood, and Jonathan Papp, the Georg Solti Accademia fulfils a long held dream that Georg Solti had to create a training program for outstanding young musicians based in Italy.
The Accademia runs its annual Bel Canto Course for Singers in the Tuscan seaside town of Castiglione Della Pescaia, where the Solti family have a home, and its spring Solti-Peretti Répétiteur Course at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice.
Importantly, the Georg Solti Accademia offers full scholarships (covering tuition and accommodation costs) to all of its students.
