Since 2015, GREVE OPERA ACADEMY & FESTIVAL (4-week residency) offers singers the opportunity to perform roles in fully staged productions with a professional orchestra. The 2025 edition will feature a full production of PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo) and other concerts. The Academy, developed & offered by internationally acclaimed faculty, includes daily voice lessons, staging sessions, Italian language lessons, and more. Performances will take place in Greve-in-Chianti, Figline Valdarno, Empoli, Florence, and possibly other locations.

Designed to be a career accelerator, Greve Opera Academy offers to selected participants performances with the Teatro Lirico D’Europa and, if chosen, opportunities with the renowned Vienna-Tel Aviv Opera Connection. 

Our students have come from the US, Italy, Canada, China, Korea, Austria, Poland, Armenia, Bulgaria, Mexico, India, Romania, Cypress, and Australia. Life-long friendships have been forged in the idyllic Tuscan surroundings.

Greve Opera Academy and Music Festival is a collaborative effort led by the American companies Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Teatro Lirico D’Europa, and the municipality of Greve in Chianti in Tuscany, Italy.