Programs
The Manetti Shrem Summer Vocal Academy provides tuition-free summer training for exceptionally talented singers and pianists, designed to help them develop their artistry, performance skills, and professional careers.
Participants benefit from an intensive range of performance and training opportunities, including performances with orchestra, private lessons with artists-in-residence, specialized coaching and masterclasses, acting training, and career and casting consultations.
Academy artists may also be considered for small roles or chorus positions in the Festival’s Mainstage Opera.
Housing and most meals are provided, along with a stipend for in-town transportation.
For more information, please contact Academy Programs Associate Eileen Moon at eileen@festivalnapavalley.org.
Scholarships are what make this experience possible. Your support ensures that admission is determined by talent and promise alone, not financial circumstance, giving these young musicians the freedom to focus entirely on their craft, their development, and their future.
2026 Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer's The Judgment of Paris
2025 Gaetano Donizetti's La fille du régiment
2024 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail
2023 Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale
2022 Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
2021 Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi