Graduate Diploma in Music - Opera Performance

aThe course provides excellent training in the four key areas of opera voice and performance, opera repertoire, opera dictionlanguage and stage skills, including two staged, orchestrally-accompanied performances of operas, giving you professional experience to equip you to enter the profession.
This course is designed to meet the needs of advanced graduates and young professional singers who wish to extend their performance skills and knowledge in the context of operatic repertoire and current professional practice.
Sydney Conservatorium of Music has the best facilities to study music in the Asia-Pacific region. Close to the Sydney Opera House and surrounded by the Royal Botanic Gardens, the Conservatorium is located at the heart of Sydney’s cultural precinct.
You will enjoy a range of choices in your degree progression and flexible study options, with the choice to complement your degree with a specialisation of your choice from the university’s shared pool of majors and minors.

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.

IELTS score: A minimum result of 7.0 overall and a minimum result of 6.0 in each band

TOEFL - IBT score: A minimum result of 96 overall including a minimum result of 17 in Reading, Listening and Speaking and 19 in Writing

Pearsons Test of English: A minimum result of 68 overall and a minimum result of 54 in each band