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Acting Training Professor – “Alfredo Kraus” Singing Chair – Ramón Areces Foundation
Application deadline
28/11/2025
Where will you work?
The Reina Sofía School of Music was founded in 1991 as a project to support youth and musical culture. Since then, the School has worked to advance two objectives: support the most talented young people in their personal and artistic development; and bring the best music to all audiences.
The transformative power of music grants a social impact to these two objectives. Music eliminates barriers and treats everyone equally, regardless of language, tradition, or culture. The practice of music unites through values such as commitment, perseverance, leadership, and collaboration, which are essential for life and coexistence.
The greater the creativity and quality with which a piece of music is composed and performed, the more intense its emotional effect on the listener will be; and therefore, the greater its beneficial impact on society. For all these reasons, the Reina Sofía School has tenaciously maintained these pedagogical principles from day one, as a way to ensure the maximum development of its students and the greatest impact on society.
Institutional commitment:
The Reina Sofía School of Music is committed to the integral formation of the musician, in which artistic excellence is accompanied by the development of a critical, autonomous, and socially committed professional identity. Constant self-evaluation of artistic and technical achievements is encouraged, as well as the ultimate achievement of student independence in the study and preparation process at a professional level.
Details about the position
Call for applications:
The Reina Sofía School of Music is opening a call for applications for the position of professor of acting training and stagecraft applied to operatic productions of different eras and styles within the Master’s Degree in Artistic Education in Performance, Singing, as part of the training provision of the “Alfredo Kraus” singing chair of the Ramón Areces Foundation, whose full professor is Juliane Banse. The work of the professor of acting training is coordinated and combined more closely with the work of the professor of Body Technique, the professor of Vocal Ensemble, the professors of Concertation and the professors of Lyrical Stagecraft. The module is group-based and focuses on acting skills and competencies directly applicable to the operatic stage. The collaboration of all these professors is expected, under the guidance of the full professor, to achieve two to three operatic staging projects per academic year.
Job Requirements
- Qualifications: One of the following qualifications will be considered for the position:
- Higher Degree / Bachelor’s Degree in higher artistic music education, Spanish or approved in Spain.
- Higher Degree / Bachelor’s Degree in higher artistic dramatic art education, Spanish or approved in Spain.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Performing Arts.
- Experience:
- Experience as a director, leader, or collaborator in professional opera, operetta, or zarzuela projects will be valued.
- Experience as a pedagogue or educational collaborator in a high-performance training environment will be valued.
- Languages: Intermediate level of spoken and written English and Spanish. Knowledge of at least one of the main languages applied to opera will be valued: German, Italian, French.
Main functions
For the 2025-26 academic year, the “Alfredo Kraus” singing chair of the Ramón Areces Foundation consists of 8 students. The responsibilities of the professor of acting training and stagecraft applied to operatic productions of different eras and styles are mainly:
- Approximately 60 hours per year of collaboration, expandable as needed and with prior written agreement with the School, during the academic year between September and June.
- Supervise the acting work of the students of the chair during the academic year, with a view to its culmination in scenic projects and towards a more long-term in-depth work of acquisition of acting competence.
- Monitor and guide the students of the chair in their lyrical stagecraft concerts, normally two projects in total per academic year, on dates to be determined.
- Availability to attend concerts and activities outside of school hours, both inside and outside the School’s headquarters.
- Promote the self-critical sense of each student and their initiative in individual and personalized study, from the detailed analysis of the score.
- Provide help and guidance to students in the appropriate stylistic conception of each project.
- Provide students with effective acting tools that can be translated to the operatic and concert environment.
- Present constructive comments and evaluations of students in relation to the work presented during school hours (quarterly).
- Be qualified to sign official grade reports (annually).
Candidatures
- CV, including contact information. [maximum 1 A4 page: artistic biographies will not be accepted].
- Letter of motivation. [maximum 1 A4 page].
- Pedagogical ethos, specifically aimed at singing students with an international profile. [maximum 2 A4 pages].
- The contact information of two professional references.
- Three video links (YouTube or similar), showing collaborative performance activity with singers, indicating the date of recording.