Manhattan School of Music Masterclass (1)

Come work with Master teacher and Soprano Ruth Golden on choosing and presenting your audition repertoire.

Internationally recognized voice teacher RUTH GOLDEN brings to Manhattan School of Music over twenty years of teaching, having served on the faculties of the Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA), LIU Post, and Bard College Conservatory Graduate program. As a guest Master Teacher, Miss Golden has worked with young singers at the Glimmerglass Festival, the Juilliard School, Songfest, North Carolina School for the Arts, the Chautauqua Institution, the University of Southern California, and Eeh Wah University in Seoul. Ruth Golden’s students have gone on to perform with the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the San Francisco Opera, Bayersches Staatsoper Munich, Deutsche Opera Berlin, New York City Opera, Spoletto Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Santa Fe Opera, Royal Swedish Opera, Minnesota Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera, among others.

Under the director of Beverly Sills, Miss Golden appeared at the New York City Opera as Mimi in La Boheme, Marguerite in Faust, both Pamina and First Lady in Die Zauberflote, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and numerous operetta heroines in The Student Prince, The Mikado, and The Merry Widow. In addition to appearances on Live from Lincoln Center, Miss Golden appeared at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Symphony Space, and Merkin Concert Hall. Concert engagements included appearances at the Kennedy Center, Los Angeles Music Center, the Ravinia Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Music Academy of the West.