The University of Theatre and Film Arts will issue a micro-certificate to those who successfully complete the partial knowledge training. This public document will include the learning outcomes, course description, and credit value.

During the 12-week masterclass, students will automate the essential conscious diaphragmatic breathing necessary for organic intensive voice forming, along with the application of flexible “support.” They will interpret the musical material appropriate to their role without sheet music, flawlessly understanding and pronouncing its textual content even in a foreign language. Students will master the musical language of the operetta genre, with a particular focus on the traditions and folk music roots of Hungarian operetta.

The coaching sessions will deepen the students’ knowledge as a close complement to the main subject of singing. The course will include regular technical singing exercises specifically for operetta roles, duets, musical ensembles, voice training, text comprehension, and pronunciation practice.

By the end of the masterclass, all participants will aim to achieve confident role perception, voice training, text comprehension and pronunciation, musical realization of duets, musical ensembles, and a complete operetta. This will be showcased in an open course format, with participants divided by assigned roles.

Course Syllabus:

1-4 weeks: operetta history, musical styles, voice training, Hungarian/German/English text comprehension and pronunciation, vocal techniques, role study;

Dramatic text, practical dramaturgy: The course is a continuous, meticulously structured series of high-level sample analyses and practical exercises, which approach, examine, analyse and detail the most important authors and types of plays of the examined period from a dramaturgical point of view. The themes of this theoretical course, which also takes a practical form but is largely theoretical in percentage, are structured in such a way that the genesis, antecedents and stylistic devices of the operetta selected are examined, with particular reference to the interpretative possibilities of the work, its dramaturgical structure, scenic issues, the characterisation of the main characters and the mechanisms of theatrical effect encoded in the text.

Weeks 5-8: vocal technique exercises for operetta roles, arias, duets, musical ensembles, correpetition, voice training, understanding the text, pronunciation.

Weeks 9-12: confident role perception, voice training, text understanding and pronunciation, duet and musical ensembles, musical realisation of the complete operetta for all participants in the course, in an open course, with participants divided by assigned roles.

1088 Budapest, Rákóczi út 21. Phone number: +36 1 551 5022 honlap@szfe.hu

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