The Mannes Opera program trains aspiring young professionals. Mannes College of Music features a superb artist faculty and offers small, intimate classes to ensure close interaction among the faculty and students. Students in the Mannes Opera program have the opportunity to appear in fully staged opera productions and in workshop performances during the year. The Mannes Opera program also presents master classes by world-renowned singers each year, and Renata Scotto and Regina Resnik were recently appointed Master Artists in Residence at Mannes.

The next presentation by the Mannes Opera program will take place on May 11 and 12, 2002 when the program presents a fully-staged production at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College.

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Mannes College of Music, founded in 1916, is one of the world’s major conservatories of music. A division of New School University, Mannes offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs, as well as a Professional Studies Diploma program. Joel Lester is Dean of the College. For further information on Mannes, call (212) 580-0210 or go to the Web site at www.mannes.edu.

New School University, with 7,000 matriculated students and 25,000 continuing education students, is comprised of seven academic divisions: The New School, the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College, Mannes College of Music, the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, and the Actors Studio Drama School, as well as the University's B.F.A. in Jazz and Contemporary Music. New School Online University offers one of the largest selections of online courses in the nation. For further information about admission to New School University, call 877-528-3321 or go to the Web site at www.newschool.edu