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    The Juilliard School

    Bachelor in Voice and Opera (Bachelor's)

    New York, United StatesTaught in EnglishOpen to international students

    Why students choose this program

    • Taught in English
    • No application fee

    About Bachelor in Voice and Opera (Bachelor's)

    Tuition is Tuition for the 2024–2025 academic year is $58,800 per year..

    This programme prepares students for professional careers as opera singers and concert performers. Students receive intensive training in vocal technique, stagecraft, and repertoire across historical periods. The curriculum emphasizes performance through studio instruction, ensemble work, and staged productions. Each student develops a personal artistic voice within a rigorous conservatory environment.

    Focus areas include Opera Performance, Art Song, Baroque Vocal Repertoire, Contemporary Opera.

    The programme requires 120 credits, distributed across studio lessons, ensemble participation, academic courses, and performance requirements. Students complete a senior recital and participate in full-scale opera productions as part of their training.

    Graduates pursue careers as professional opera singers, concert performers, and voice instructors.

    Applicants must hold a high school diploma or equivalent and submit an audition with prepared arias, sight-singing, and a language proficiency assessment. Required documents include transcripts, a personal statement, and two letters of recommendation.

    The programme totals about 120 credit hours. on-campus, full-time, four years. For international students, tuition is well above the median for US programmes. The institution admits about 9% of applicants.

    About The Juilliard School

    Performance sits at the center of The Juilliard School's academic work. Its programs span dance, drama, and music, with acting available within drama and vocal arts offered within music. Music students can study instruments including piano, strings, woodwinds, brass, guitar, harp, organ, and percussion. Additional areas include collaborative piano, composition, conducting, jazz studies, historical performance, and the Doctor of Musical Arts. The Artist Diploma in Opera Studies provides another advanced music pathway.

    Juilliard connects study with public performance through its performances program and annual season. Dance, drama, music, and creative enterprise appear across its on-stage and related programming. The school also supports artistic development through alumni activities, K-12 education, summer programs, and Juilliard Extension certificates in core musical skills, music composition, and music production. Juilliard Jazz marks 25 years, providing a specific point of continuity within the school's music activities.

    Located in New York City, Juilliard offers campus-life information covering living in the city, student affairs, well-being, academic support, disability services, public safety, and orientation for new students and families. International students have dedicated information within admissions and campus life. Prospective students can also review tuition, financial aid, scholarships, loans, student accounts, and work-study resources. The College Catalog, academic calendar, liberal arts information, faculty directory, library, and archives provide further context for planning study and understanding the wider school community.

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