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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL  FOR SINGERS 2008   

Biographies

Ronny LAUWERS is an animator, a stage producer, a singing coach and a teacher of theatre and animation film techniques. He possesses a unique combination of talents, which have accumulated through his wide-ranging training and professional experience, in several key areas associated with stage and screen productions. The level of knowledge and depth of understanding of the theatre, drama and acting, which he has acquired throughout his career, makes him one of Belgium’s most versatile artists and specialists in this field. 

He combines his teaching career with a busy schedule as a freelance producer of opera with different companies in Belgium. As professor of Opera and Character-studies at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music, where he is head of the ‘Lyrisch Atelier’, he works extensively with young singers on drama and interpretation. Through his background and practical experience of working with professional singers, he is better able to guide and advise the aspiring, and often ambitious, young singers on the road to a career in the performing arts.  His professional experience as an opera producer includes:

   De Munt - Brussels :

- ‘Noye’s fludde’ by Benjamin Britten (producer)

- ‘Don Giovanni’ by Mozart, ‘Le coffret à bijoux’, ‘The fantastics’ by Jones-Schmidt, ‘La bohème’ by Puccini (assistant producer to Ida Huisman)

- ‘Werther’ by Massenet, ‘Cosi fan tutte’ by Mozart (assistant producer to Jo Dua)

 -‘La Muette’ (assistant producer to Maurice Béjart)

·       Opera Voor Vlaanderen - Antwerp

‘The Rake’s Progress’ by Stravinsky, ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia’ by Rossini, ‘Samson et Dalila’ by Saint-Saëns, ‘Norma’ by Bellini, ‘Lohengrin’ by Wagner, ‘Gansendonck’ by W. Kersters (producer)

·       Vlaamse Kameropera - Antwerp

‘La finta Giardiniera’ by Mozart, ‘Captain Lovelock’ by Duke, ‘Prima la musica, poi le parole’ by Salieri, ‘Mozart en Salieri’ by Rimsky - Korsakof and ‘La cambiale di matrimonio’ by Rossini (producer)

·       BRTN - Brussels

- ‘Marialeven’ by Karel Candael (producer)

- ‘Prima sera’ from ‘La vie Parisienne’ by Offenbach (coach)

·       ECOV - Gent

- ‘Il Signor Bruschino’ by Rossini, ‘Don Pasquale’ by Donizetti, ‘Gianni Schicchi’ by Puccini, ‘Lettera d’amore’ an Italian Opera program including works by Cilea, Puccini, Verdi, Rossini and Menotti (producer)

- master-classes for Belgian singers

·       the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music

     ‘Dido and Aeneas’ by Purcell, ‘Riders to the sea’ by Vaughan Williams, ‘The rape of Lucretia’ by Britten, ‘Songfest’ by Bernstein, ‘Requiem a tre voci, viola e organo’ by Puccini, ‘Come and Go’ by Holliger, ‘Hercules, the adventure of a professor’ by Lucien Posman and ‘Pierrot Lunaire’ by Schoenberg (producer)

·         Opera Transparant – Antwerp/Manchester 1999

     ‘The Llighthouse’ – Peter Maxwell-Davis (producer)

       Opera studio of la Monnaie/De Munt Brussels 2000 - 'Riders to the sea' - Ralph Vaughan Williams

His highly acclaimed production of Vaughan Williams' 'Riders to the sea' was performed at the Belgian National Opera, La Monnaie/De Munt in 2001. 

Since 2004 Ronny Lauwers is the Director of the Flanders Opera Studio.