Idit

I am Idit , professional singing teacher and international opera singer, AGSM Diploma, Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Artistic director of Opera & More, founder and former artistic director of the Madrid Opera Studio.

My operatic career and teaching experience spans over more than 20 years in London, Paris and Madrid.

What do I offer?

An hour private complimentary consultation, giving us the chance to assess your level and needs together.
Thereafter, singing lessons are one hour long, and take place at my home in Highgate, North London.
All levels and styles are welcome, and I will gladly prepare people for academic institutions entrance exams, competitions and auditions, acting and musical theatre school entrance conditions, recordings and performances, from complete beginners to professionals.
In addition I offer my students performance technique workshops and organise student concerts.

What are my mottos?

I believe that no matter what level and aspirations you have, you need to be taught to achieve a solid technique, the understanding of breath control and sound projection, in such a way that will meet your personal vocal and musical needs.

Therefore my aim is to provide each person who comes to me, no matter what level or aspiration he/she has, the attention and care that will allow them to develop a solid technique, understanding of breath control and sound projection, and will help them facilitate a natural connection between the voice and music making.

Availability: Various

Willing to travel: Home Only

Experience: What are my credentials?

I have taught many singers, dancers and actors over the last 20 years in London, Paris and Madrid, and I am the artistic director of Opera & More, and founder and former artistic director of the Madrid Opera Studio.
I hold an Associate Diploma in singing and teaching singing from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I have studied singing for 20 years with the late Vera Rozsa OBE, teacher of such singers as Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sarah Walker, Sir Thomas Allan and Jonathan Lamalu amongst many. I have released a solo CD with Meridian Records and performed with many Opera companies and Orchestras and given recitals in the UK, Spain, France, Israel and the US.


Biography:

Idit is an Israeli-British Opera singer and singing teacher, founder and former artistic director of the Madrid Opera Studio (closed down in 2014).

Idit grew up in a home entrenched in musical love and tradition. Her mother is a piano teacher and doctor of the philosophy of music. She started her music studies as the age of 4 with the violin, and then moved to the cello before at 14 starting to study singing.

At the age of 15 after receiving her first full scholarship with excellence from the Israel-America Foundation, Idit was the first singer to be invited to become a part of the group of Young Talents of the Jerusalem Music Centre.

Idit met the renowned Professor Vera Rózsa in the Jerusalem music centre at 17, and came to study with her at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. She carried on her operatic training at the Federico Davia Opera Studio, London.

Since then Idit has performed as a soloist in concerts and operatic productions in England, Spain, Israel, Hungary, France and the USA. She takes special pride, for her love of theatre, in having performed the lead role of Antigone, first at the Shakespeare Globe in London and then on tour, in a new Opera by the Royal Opera Covent Garden`s associate composer Dominique Le Gendre, set to the text of the Nobel prize winning poet Seamus Heaneys` The burial at Thebes, a version of Sophocles` Antigone, directed by another Nobel prize winner, Derek Walcott.

Idit also had an extensive career as a concert artist. As a regular soloist with the Schubert Players, she went with them on tours in Andalucía, Spain, as well performing with them in the UK at St John’s, Smith Square, London, the Penrith Music Society, Faversham Music Society, and in the Mansfield Theatre. She sung in numerous concerts, and gave many recitals in some of London’s most important concert venues such as St John`s, Smith Square, St James`s Piccadilly, the Kenneth More Theatre and St Martin in the Fields, as well as in France, Hungary, Germany, Israel, Spain and the US.

In 2005 Idit recorded a solo album of Spanish art song “Alma Española” with the acclaimed Meridian Records label.

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