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


Participants will receive:
  • 2 individual One hour coaching sessions
  • Two 3 hour rehearsals a week for a total of four weeks 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.
  • The Art of the Audition and Feedback Class 
  • The Acting for Singers Class
  • A Masterclass with one of our faculty
  • Each performance will be professionally videotaped and participates 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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ROLE: OPERA ACT BY ACT

(PROGRAM TO BEGIN JULY, 2026)

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

Workshops for 2026

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

Verdi Rigoletto - Act 3 (Final Act)

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ROLE: THE DRAMATIC VOICE

(PROGRAM 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 program is $300.

Workshops for 2026

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, JON AUDRIC NELSON COACH, ERIC MALSON COLLABORATIVE PIANIST, KS TICHINA VAUGHN MASTERCLASS, DEBORAH SURDI THE BUSINESS OF MUSIC, 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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