Inspira

Festival Cap Rocat inspira: Boosting talent

Boosting talent

The Festival Cap Rocat Inspira Festival Cap Rocat was created with the aim of supporting and projecting emerging talent in the field of classical music. Through a carefully designed training program, we offer young performers the opportunity to perfect their art in a unique environment, surrounded by renowned artists and mentors of international prestige.

This year, the program is being expanded for the first time and is organized around three complementary activities:

An inaugural session, which will open the way for reflection and inspiration.

A master class with the soprano Pretty Yende, directed to four singers who have been selected in auditions held in Mallorca, in collaboration with the Coro Festival Cap Rocat; and in Madrid, within the Crescendo program of the Friends of the Teatro Real. The selected singers are Cristina Van Roy and Inma Hidalgo (Coro Festival Cap Rocat), and Lucía Iglesias and Natividad Oval (Crescendo program).

A closing activity, which will include the participation of two prominent music critics of the island (to be confirmed).

This space of encounter between generations seeks not only to promote musical excellence, but also to cultivate the sensitivity, creativity and artistic commitment of those who represent the future of music.

1. YOUNG PEOPLE FOR THE LYRIC: STUDIES, DREAMS AND OPPORTUNITIES

Presentation of the master class and symposium with the selected singers by Ilias Tzempetonidis, artistic director of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and of the Festival Cap Rocat, with translation by Jesús López, pianist.

The study of singing today: difficulties, opportunities, lights and shadows.

2. PRETTY YENDE MASTERCLASS

Selected participants 2025:

  • Cristina Van Roy

  • Inma Hidalgo

  • Natividad Oval

3. OPERA AND SINGING: OPERA TODAY

Reflections by Pere Estelrich and José Antonio Pérez de Mendiola.

  • Opportunities for young singers in opera houses

  • Opera in Spain's main theaters

  • Opera in cities and/or theaters such as London, Prague or Beirut

  • Is opera - as a global art form - fashionable?

  • Music director versus stage manager

  • A few words about Nabucco

Saturday, August 2nd 11:30 - 15:00

  • Warm Up: from vocal technique to the study of singing and its repertoire

  • Masterclass with Pretty Yende

  • Epilogue: the world of lyric poetry today. Conclusions and challenges.

* Tentative schedule subject to change

LIMITED SPACE

Three people on a stage, a woman in a white dress, another in a blue dress with white dots, and a man playing on a black grand piano in a room with gold curtains and plants.
A man playing the Steinway & Sons piano in a concert hall.
Piano concert or recital in an elegant hall with audience seated on white chairs.
Woman with curly hair and blue dress with white dots, singing in front of a black Steinway & Sons piano on an indoor stage.
Sondra Radvanovsky and a man on stage at the 2024 Inspire Talent Masterclass, with the woman touching the man on the back, in front of a seated and watching audience.
Sondra Radvanovsky teaching at the 2024 Inspire Talent Masterclass, excited and smiling in front of a mirror, together with one of the participants, while the others listen and smile, with an audience in the background.
A group of people sitting in a room, listening attentively at a conference or meeting. There is a woman in the foreground on the right, dressed in white clothes and sitting in an armchair, with an orange purse on the floor beside her.
Two women in a music room, one playing the piano and the other reacting with surprise and joy.