Graduate Diploma in Music (Opera Performance)

Graduate Diploma

The course provides excellent training in the four key areas of opera voice and performance, opera repertoire, opera diction/language and stage skills, including two staged, orchestrally-accompanied performances of operas, giving you professional experience to equip you to enter the profession.

Key details

Degree Type

Graduate Diploma

Duration

1 year full-time

Study Mode

In person

Intake Months

Feb

Domestic Fees

$33,000 total

About this course

The course provides excellent training in the four key areas of opera voice and performance, opera repertoire, opera diction/language and stage skills, including two staged, orchestrally-accompanied performances of operas, giving you professional experience to equip you to enter the profession.

Entry requirements

Admission requires:

a bachelor's degree of higher award from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification, in an appropriate discipline as determined by the School; or
a graduate certificate from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification, in an appropriate discipline as determined by the School; or
completion of the requirements of an embedded graduate certificate in an appropriate discipline, as determined by the School, from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; or
in exceptional circumstances the Head of School and Dean may admit applicants without these qualifications but whose evidence of experience and achievement is deemed by the Head of School and Dean to be equivalent, and
successful completion of an audition and an interview.

Applicants who do not have a recognised tertiary award but who demonstrate an equivalent musical ability and maturity at the audition and interview, and who can show considerable performing experience may be admitted.

Study locations

Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Career pathways

The Opera Studies program will help you to develop the personal attributes needed for a career in performance, teaching or other fields such as:

Opera singer
Concert and Oratorio singer
Professional Ensemble singer
Professional Opera Chorus singer
Singing teacher (primary, secondary, tertiary and/or private)
Music research/academia
Broadcaster
Music writer/blogger/critic
Artist agent
Arts administrator

How to apply

Read about the application process

Please read about the postgraduate pre-admission and audition requirements on our website before applying.

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Creative Arts courses at University of Sydney (USYD).

83.9%

Overall satisfaction

83.9%

Skill scale

80.7%

Teaching scale

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