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ROLE ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS.
Our year-round ROLE (Repertory Onstage Learning Experience) Institute offers one-of-a-kind programs crafted to foster the complete artist. Our dedication to each artist's education and development include rehearsal, coaching, masterclasses, and performance opportunities.  Our programs gives you the opportunity to learn, coach, study, rehearse and perform operatic repertoire with emphasis on building a character.  The performances are with piano accompaniment, semi-staged with some props and costumes. 
Singers of all levels are encouraged to participate.

You can choose the study of a complete role or individual acts. A separate program is offered just for the Dramatic voice to focus on the challenges for that particular singer. Please click below to view those programs. Each program culminates in a live performance which will be videotaped and you will receive a copy for your use. 

 

Participation Information
Please take a look at each program for the fee structure. ​
All singers are requested to do basic musical preparation before the first session begins.


Participants will receive:
  • 3 individual One hour coaching sessions and Ten 3 hour rehearsals focusing on style, language, music, character development / staging, and a dress rehearsal to prepare these works for a guaranteed performance.   
  • Our faculty of coaches, collaborative pianists, and directors will guide you through the challenges of  the role(s) you have chosen.
  • Guaranteed Classes 
  1. The Art of the Audition and Feedback Class 
  2. The Acting for Singers Class
  • A Masterclass with one of our faculty
  • Each performance will be professionally videotaped and participants will receive a copy for their personal use.
Artistic Director Stephen Scovasso working with Tenor Thomas Waters
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Dramatic Soprano Luana DeVol, Artistic Director Stephen Scovasso, KS Tichina Vaughn

REPERTORY ONSTAGE LEARNING EXPERIENCE
 

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS
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Suor Angelica 2025

ROLE: OPERA ACT BY ACT

(July 2026 - June 2027)

This workshop focuses on complete acts of operas which will be performed semi-staged with some props and costumes. The cost of this workshop is $250 per participant.

Workshops for 2026 - 2027

Acts under consideration:

Bizet: Carmen - Act 2

Offenbach Les Contes D'Hoffmann - Antonia Act

Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro - Act 2

Gounod Faust - Act 3 (Garden Act)

Puccini La Boheme - Act 1

             La Rondine - Act 1​

Verdi Rigoletto - Act 3 (Final Act)

          La Traviata - Act 2

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Ariadne auf Naxos 2025

ROLE: THE DRAMATIC VOICE

(TO BEGIN AFTER JULY 10, 2026)

This workshop focuses on the more dramatic heavier voice focusing on the repertory that is suitable for these artists. The cost of this workshop is $300 per participant.

Workshops for 2026- 2027

Excerpts under consideration:

Puccini: La Fanciulla del West, Turandot

Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos, Elektra

Verdi - Il Trovatore, Aida

Wagner Die Walküre, Der Fliegende Holländer, Götterdämmerung, and Parsifal.

FACULTY:  MARY PINTO COACH, ERIC MALSON COLLABORATIVE PIANIST, KS TICHINA VAUGHN MASTERCLASS, JON AUDRIC NELSON COACH, STEPHEN SCOVASSO DIRECTOR

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The SAS Performing Arts Company  and Studios, Inc.

111 Mulbery Street Apt 2P

Newark, NJ  07102

Telephone: (646) 858-9918

© 2025 SAS Performing Arts Company and Studio, Inc.

SAS Performing Arts Company and Studio, Inc. is a proud member of OPERA AMERICA, The New York Opera Alliance.

SAS Performing Arts Company and Studios, Inc. is recognized as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) corporation by the IRS.

Some of our programs are made possible by funds from the Essex County Division of Cultural Affairs, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the City of Newark, Division of Arts and Cultural Affairs.

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