Opera

Take the Stage in Mozart’s Masterpiece

Perform a role in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) alongside an orchestra. We've got triple casting for this opera, ensuring numerous chances for you to truly shine! 

Centrally Located for Convenience

Conveniently located in York, PA, USA, we're nestled between Philadelphia and Baltimore, just 3 hours from NYC, 2 hours from Washington DC, and 3 hours from Pittsburgh.

Build Your Professional Portfolio

As a student, you'll receive valuable letters of recommendation when applying for college, graduate school, and apprentice programs.

Leah Schenck-Crowne

Leah Schenck-Crowne, a highly regarded voice teacher, is known for guiding dynamic voice students nationally and internationally. Her distinguished singing career has seen performances at prestigious venues such as The Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, and St. Paul's Covent Garden.

Beyond her personal accomplishments, Leah's true passion lies in cultivating the talents of aspiring singers. She dedicates herself to providing guidance and mentorship, empowering students to unlock the full potential of their voices. Leah's approach focuses on refining vocal techniques, fostering stage presence, and developing overall musicality.

Committed to the growth of her students, Leah believes in creating opportunities for singers to gain invaluable stage experience. Her holistic approach to vocal education extends to contributing to the performing arts scene in York, Pennsylvania. Actively participating in and supporting initiatives, she enriches the cultural fabric of the region.

Leah Schenck-Crowne's journey as a vocalist, teacher, and advocate for the performing arts exemplifies a lifelong commitment to excellence in music education and the promotion of a rich cultural heritage. Her influence resonates not only through the notes she has sung on renowned stages but also in the voices she has cultivated and the enduring impact she has made on the artistic communities she serves.

Dr. Scott Crowne

Scott Crowne enjoys a diverse and active career as a pianist, conductor, coach, and teacher. In the realm of opera, he is in high demand as a coach and music director. He has served as the artistic director and principle conductor of Opera Susquehanna in Pennsylvania, the Hub Opera Ensemble in Maryland and the American Singer's Opera Project in North Carolina. As a coach, he has worked for such institutions as Bel Canto in Tuscany (Florence). the Mediterranean Opera Studio (Sicily), the Middlebury German for Singers Program, the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater, the University of Miami Festival in Salzburg, the voice department of Towson University, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Brevard Music Center.

As a voice and opera coach at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, and professor of collaborative piano at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, his work is with doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate singers and instrumentalists. He performs concerts and recitals with international faculty and guest musicians frequently. In addition he serves as the music director for the opera workshop program and frequently the college musical theater productions as well. Off campus he served as music director for the undergraduate opera workshop and taught graduate vocal literature classes at the University of Maryland, College Park. Additionally, he spent many summers working with high school students for the Washington National Opera's Family Opera and Opera Institute. 

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As a pianist, he is praised for his sensitive and supportive collaboration with singers and instrumentalists. He performs in Europe and across the United States many times a year in addition to frequent concerts in the Mid-Atlantic region. Venues include Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, the Leopoldskron in Salzburg, and the Teatro Eschillo in Sicily.

Complimenting his love of performance, he is also an inquisitive researcher. He enjoys searching out unusual and interesting music to enrich the standard recital repertoire. His particular interest is in the music of Herbert Howells (1892-1983), on whom he did his dissertation and published an edition of art songs for Novello and Co.

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He received his BMus summa cum laude at the Catholic University of America where studied piano and composition. He received a teaching assistance-ship to the University of Maryland (DMA, MMus) where he performed in numerous concerts and recitals as a vocal accompanist, chamber musician, continuo artist, and orchestral pianist. He spent three years as a répétiteur with the Maryland Opera Studio, assisting with the preparation and performance of operas and opera scenes. He participated or served as pianist for masterclasses for Jennifer Laramore, Evelyn Lear, Elizabeth Bishop, Marcello Giordani, Jerry Hadley, Steven Blier and Martin Katz. He has worked with conductors such as Matthias Kuntzsch, Christoph Hagel, Asher Fisch, Ken Slowick and Kenneth Merrill. His teachers include Rita Sloan, John Greer, James Litzelman, and Wendy Dengler. 

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He currently resides in York, Pennsylvania with his wife, dramatic soprano Leah Schenck-Crowne, and his two daughters. 

Dr. Stacey Mastrian

Dr. Stacey Mastrian is a soprano, voice teacher, diction coach, and functional anatomy facilitator who is the founder of Mindful Vocal Engineering™, Singing with Ease™, Sounding the Voice Within™, and Vocal Freedom for Life™. For three decades she has been performing and teaching, with the goal of cultivating holistic wellbeing and creating transformative experiences that connect people with themselves, those around them, and the world. Dr. Mastrian draws on acting, anatomy, bel canto, bodywork, mindfulness, and voice science to facilitate breakthrough moments, empowering clients in preparation for auditions, performances, and vocal use in their daily lives. Known for their solid technique and freedom of expression, her students have seen success on Broadway and in national tours, headliner concerts, recording studios, and European opera stages; winning competitions and scholarships; selection by top-choice universities and conservatories; and in having healthy voices that last a lifetime.

As a performer, she has been hailed as “manifestly courageous” (Boston Globe) and “versatile and passionate” (Der Tagesspiegel) with “intensity, focus, and a warm, passionate sound” (The New York
Times). She sings music in more than two dozen languages, spanning 900 years from Hildegard von Bingen to Machaut, Monteverdi through Mozart, and Strauss and Verdi to Berio and beyond. She has sung at the Konzerthaus and the Maxim Gorki Theater (Berlin), the Kennedy Center (DC), Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur (Montréal), Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center (NY), St. Peter’s (Vatican City),
Teatro La Fenice (Venice), and in Mexico and over half of the U.S. states.

Recently she has been heard in Bach’s Cantata 51 and Brahms’ Requiem (Rome), Annelies and Ghetto Songs (Seattle), Mrs. Meeker in Tacoma Method (Tacoma, world premiere), as well as a percussion
protest opera written for her with texts by Thoreau (Philadelphia, NYC premieres).

This season she performs twice as featured soloist at Benaroya Hall (Seattle): Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and a new voting-rights cantata by Reena Esmail, followed by the U.S. premiere of Grace Williams’ Fairest of Stars, with text by John Milton, and Luonnotar by Sibelius.

Dr. Mastrian has been a Fulbright grantee and Beebe fellow to Italy and awarded prizes from The American Prize (Art Song), Chamber Orchestra of NY (Respighi Prize), International Traxel Society (First Laureate), National Italian American Foundation (Pavarotti Scholarship), Seattle Opera Guild (Development Award), Shoshana Foundation (Richard F. Gold Career Grant), and Vocal Arts DC
(Discovery Series Winner).

She attended the Middlebury German for Singers program on a Max Kade scholarship and has received multiple Faculty Development Grants from Peabody Conservatory, as wellas a Jack Straw award toward recording. Her CD Sonetti e favole (Sonnets and Fables) was released in 2019 on the Milan-based Stradivarius label and hailed for “penetrating insight, unfailing musicality, and vocal beauty” (Journal of Singing). She also appears on the NAXOS and Neuma labels and has an upcoming release of a world premiere 20 th -century work with the Lugano Percussion Ensemble.

Dr. Mastrian has taught at American University, Gettysburg College, Peabody Conservatory, and the University of Maryland. She currently maintains a select private studio online and gives voice, diction,
and embodied anatomy workshops worldwide. As a certified Level III Franklin Method® Movement Educator, she enables her students to have a sophisticated sense of awareness and an in-depth understanding of the function of their whole instrument.

For more information, please visit www.staceymastrian.com and www.mastrianstudio.com.