VOX integra

Twenty singers maximum. It means the faculty know your voice. It means the development is individual, not generalised.
Staged Italian Opera Scenes, Feltre, 21–30 August 2026.
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Peter Rose has spent a career as one of the finest bass voices on the international stage. His masterclass at Feltre this August isn't a Q&A or a career conversation. It's a working session: technique, interpretation, the specific demands of the Italian repertoire.

Every singer on the course has access to it. That kind of close musical attention, from someone who has inhabited these roles across the world's great stages, is not something many courses of this size can offer.

21–30 August 2026, Feltre. To enquire: [email protected]

Brian Parsons brings decades of performance experience to his teaching, and the clearest quality of that experience is precision. He knows what he's listening for, and he can name it.

Not every vocal teacher can do both. There's a kind of expertise that remains intuitive, that produces results but can't explain itself. Brian's is different: specific, communicable, grounded in how the instrument actually works and what Italian opera actually demands.

For singers who've received contradictory teaching, which is more common than it should be, Brian's specificity is clarifying. You stop managing competing instructions. You start to understand your own instrument.

Something new for Feltre 2026: a piano trio joins the coached scenes programme.
Alongside the répétiteur, singers will work with live violin and cello within their staged scenes: an addition that changes the acoustic, the ensemble listening, and the experience of inhabiting a role in real time.

It's an unusual opportunity in a course of this kind. Most summer programmes work to piano reduction throughout. The trio brings singers closer to the experience of performing with a chamber orchestra: responsive, listening, present.
Staged Italian Opera Scenes, 21–30 August 2026.

Fees: £895/€1044 (under 30s) £995/€1150 standard
To enquire or apply: [email protected]

There's a version of operatic stagecraft that treats the body as a vehicle for the voice: keep it still, keep it open, don't let movement compromise the sound.

And there's another version, harder to teach but more valuable, that understands physical commitment and vocal freedom as the same thing. When you genuinely cross the stage because the character needs to cross it, the breath organises differently. The phrase has a reason.

Beverley Worboys teaches from this understanding. She's interested in what happens when the staging is true: not decorative, not correct, but actually motivated. The voice tends to follow.

Staged Italian Opera Scenes: Feltre 2026

A ten-day immersive course for conservatoire students, recent graduates, and early-career professional singers. Set in the medieval city of Feltre, beneath the eastern Dolomites.

The faculty:
Theresa Goble - course leader and vocal coach
Brian Parsons - vocal professor
David Lawrence - musical director
Beverley Worboys - movement and stage direction
Matteo Dalle Fratte - Italian language (Melofonetica)
Riho Akagi and Ronald Cheung - répétiteurs
Peter Rose - patron, visiting artist and masterclass
David Liam Roberts - Cello
Jennifer Armor - Violin

New for 2026: piano trio (violin and cello) joins the coached scenes.

Dates: 21–30 August 2026
Venue: Teatro de la Sena and Palazzo Guarnieri, Feltre, Veneto
Fees: £895/€1044 (under 30) | £995/€1150 standard
To enquire or apply: [email protected]

Feltre is a small medieval city in the eastern Veneto, at the foot of the Dolomites. It has been a centre of civic and artistic life since the Renaissance. It's also entirely unknown to most opera singers.
That's part of what makes a course there distinctive. You're not arriving at a well-established summer school with brand recognition and a long track record. You're arriving somewhere that requires active attention, and that attention is part of what the course asks of you.
The Palazzo Guarnieri serves as the principal rehearsal space. The Teatro de la Sena hosts the final performance. Between the two, there's a city to inhabit.
Staged Italian Opera Scenes, 21–30 August 2026.
To enquire: [email protected]

David Lawrence's role as musical director at Feltre isn't just to ensure the notes are right.
He works at the intersection of orchestral awareness and vocal support, helping singers understand what the ensemble writing tells them about the character, the drama, the moment. What the strings are doing when the soprano enters. What the bass line tells you about the harmonic weight of a phrase.

This kind of musical intelligence separates singers who sing roles from singers who understand them. It's not a distinction of taste. It's one of craft.

Staged Italian Opera Scenes, Feltre, 21–30 August 2026.
To enquire: [email protected]

The Dolomites from Feltre are not a backdrop. They're a presence: that particular geological drama, the light catching the rock differently by the hour.
Most singers who come to the course mention the location somewhere in their reflections. Not because it's picturesque, though it is, but because the scale of it does something to the scale of your concerns. The small anxieties of a week's intensive study become navigable.