The Master of Music (Opera Performance) is a professional training program offering elite-level training for opera singers and repetiteurs. This course is all about learning the craft of being an opera singer – doing, reflecting, and enacting a wide range of skills in a variety of repertoires. The two-year program includes intensive studies in vocal coaching, lyric diction for Italian, French and German language for opera, ensemble singing, role development, acting and music performance research. Students will have the opportunity to prepare specific roles and be actively engaged in performance opportunities – both in house and through industry placements with professional opera companies, in Australia and internationally. Pathways to research master degrees are also available upon completion of the program. On completion of this program, graduates will have achieved a professional level standard in vocal performance or repetiteur skills capable of meeting global demands. For singers, this will include skills in acting, movement and other stagecraft skills as well as the lyric diction skills required for professional opera singing. Students are taught to realise feeling through not only the voice but subtle stage action. Repetiteurs will have achieved the keyboard and vocal coaching skills required of a professional repetiteur from the rehearsal stage through to full-scale operatic performance. The Master of Music (Opera Performance) provides extensive opportunities for aspiring professional opera singers to perform across a range of opera forms, and develop links with industry through placement opportunities. The program provides an avenue to a career as a professional singer, and graduates have found employment with Opera Australia, Victorian Opera, and other local and international companies and ensembles.