Festival Cap Rocat inspires: Promoting talent

Masterclass 2025

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.

In 2025, the program was expanded for the first time and structured around three complementary activities:

  • An opening session that paved the way for reflection and inspiration.

  • A masterclass with soprano Pretty Yende, aimed at four singers who were selected in auditions held in Mallorca, in collaboration with the Festival Cap Rocat Choir; and in Madrid, as part of the Crescendo program of the Friends of the Royal Theater. The singers selected were Cristina Van Roy and Inma Hidalgo ( Festival Cap Rocat Choir), and Lucía Iglesias and Natividad Oval (Crescendo program).

  • A closing event, which featured the participation of two prominent music critics from the island.

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.

Five people of different ages and genders pose together in a room decorated in warm tones, with a model ship in the background.
Three men sitting at a table at an event, talking and listening. Behind them is a black grand piano and a group of people in the background. In front of them are several people in the audience. The scene features plants and flowers in the foreground.
Two women laughing and enjoying a conversation, one wearing a floral dress and the other wearing a red and white blouse with sheet music on a music stand.
Three people talking on a stage with a piano, a woman in a yellow dress with flowers, a woman in a black dress, and a man in a pink blazer, at a social event.
A concert or recital in a large hall with a seated audience, two women on stage talking, and a pianist playing a grand piano.
A singer and a pianist performing on stage at a concert with an audience.
Two women on stage, one with a sad expression and the other with an anguished expression, in the middle of a conversation or presentation.