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Muhlenberg College
2400 W Chew St
Allentown, PA 18104
United States
Baroque Academy at the Amherst Early Music offers a unique opportunity for music students, advanced amateurs, and young starting professionals to explore music in the 17th and 18th centuries. Students work closely with internationally renowned faculty members to expand their knowledge of Baroque style, technique, ornamentation, and repertoire.
The 2026 Baroque Academy will be held at Muhlenberg College in Allentown PA, July 11-18, 2026. Opera singers should plan to begin rehearsing the afternoon of Saturday, July 11. (The Festival week runs July 12-19.)
- Pitch is A=415.
- Application due date: April 1, 2026 for singers.
- Tuition: $750.
The Opera Project at the 2025 Amherst Early Music Festival will be the staged, modern premiere of Georg Reutter the younger's Dafne (1734), a festa teatrale composed for the imperial family in Vienna. Drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses of classical antiquity, the opera sets the myth of woodland nymph Daphne, her desperate flight from Apollo, lovesick from Cupid’s poisoned arrow, and her magical transformation
Musical direction by tba and stage direction by tba, vocal coach, Lawrence Rosenwald, language coach, Dorothy Olsson and Peggy Murray, historical dance, Ronnie Snader, costumes, and Paul Guttry, sets and props.
Perform a role in our fully staged production with Baroque orchestra and historical dance. Master classes, coachings, sessions on period acting and performance technique. Performance Friday, July 17, 2026. Audition by April 1, 2026 (singers), April 15, 2026 (instrumentalists).
Baroque Opera Project General Daily Schedule 9:00-10:30 Master class, 11:00-12:30 staging rehearsal, 1:30-3:00 musical rehearsal, 3:30 to 5:30 tutti rehearsal with orchestra. Opera dress rehearsal: Thursday evening, July 3 after the Baroque Academy Faculty Concert.
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