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Apprentices
The American Opera Projects Apprentice Program allows aspiring artists and arts managers with an interest in new opera a chance to develop their skills in an apprenticeship with the company’s artistic and executive directors as well as to experience the inner workings of an independent and creative not-for-profit organization in New York City.
Meet our current Apprentices
 EMILIE CHABERT - Administrative Apprentice 07-08
After receiving a Masters Degree in "Direction of Cultural Projects" in 2005 in France, Emilie Chabert went to Belgium and created a street-theater festival: the "Festival Carabistouille". For each of the three editions, two in 2006 and one in 2007, she managed programming, communication, administration, logistics, development, fundraising and sponsoring.
Though she is French, she has already worked in different countries like Quebec, Slovakia, Belgium where she has been employed in festivals, cultural centers, and theaters. She has also performed in few theater plays. Emilie is also interested in sociology and has a Masters in anthropology. It could explain her wish to discover other cultures, other languages and other ways to work as she will learn in American Opera Projects.
 ANNE RICCI - Administrative Apprentice 06-08
Since completing her Masters at Manhattan School of Music, lyric soprano Anne Ricci has performed with various opera companies in and around New York City. In 2005 she made her Avery Fisher Hall debut with the National Chorale, singing the soprano solo in Aaron Copland’s “An Immorality.” Focusing principally on performing new works, she has sung regularly with the New York-based outreach company The Remarkable Theatre Brigade. She also has performed contemporary pieces at the Chicago Humanities Festival and the International Fringe Festival and for American Opera Projects. She premiered the principal role of the gold-digger Tiffany in preliminary performances of Best Friends, the opera-in-progress by composer Deborah Drattell and the late playwright Wendy Wasserstein. Anne is also a working actor and member of Actors' Equity. She performed most recently with Making Books Sing in an original production entitled The Orphan Singer. In addition to working as General Managing Diva of Opera on Tap, she teaches voice, and indulges her tastes for great literature and fine wine to the extent that time (and income) permit.
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