Opera to launch youth program
Los Angeles Opera will launch a training program for young singers in 2006, thanks to a $2-million gift from the Flora L. Thornton Foundation.
The program will be named the Domingo-Thornton Young Artists Program, general director Placido Domingo said at a cast party after a performance of “Pagliacci” on Sunday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
Calling it “a gift for the future,” Domingo said the program would fund eight to 10 singers, two coaches, a stage director, a conductor and “most likely a composer in residence.”
Participants, all younger than 30, will be chosen through open auditions, whose goal will be to attract singers from Southern California.
The winners will receive a stipend for two or three years so they can concentrate full time on voice lessons, language studies, acting, stage movement and other disciplines essential to developing a career.
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