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Royal Academy Opera

Director of Opera:
Anthony Legge MA, Hon RAM

Royal Academy Opera Administrator:
Sara Jennings

Senior Administrative Co-ordinator:
Chris Loake Hon ARAM

Telephone 020 7873 7383
Email opera@ram.ac.uk

Viktor Rud

I started here after studying conducting in Ukraine. When I came back to Kyiv after visiting for the open day at the Academy, I had to make one of the biggest decisions of my life. I’d never had any formal vocal training. All at once, I chose Britain, London, the Academy, my first singing teacher, my first vocal coach, my first director … and I made the right choice, I’m sure! At the end of the first term, as I sang in a scene from Figaro I thought ‘I can’t believe it, I’ve learned so much in just ten weeks!

The Academy has an amazing team, with every expertise you need to make the change from promising student to professional. After two years on the PGDip and then two years with Royal Academy Opera, I’m now going to the National Opera Studio. I placed my trust in the hands of the staff on the course at the Academy. They have never failed to support and nurture me, in every way.’

(Picture: Photo of Victor Rud)

‘This was a rip-roaring, side-splitting show: one of the funniest, wittiest productions mounted by any music college in recent years’
Opera Now, March 2006
(La finta giardiniera)

‘A pleasure for all… the soloists excelled … this was an emotionally charged account, and a treat to hear’
Evening Standard, March 2007

‘I have nothing but praise for Robert Chevara’s staging … the whole enterprise was filled with an understanding of Period French style and what it takes to translate it to our 21st-century sensibilities’
FinancialTimes,
November 2006, ‘Dardanus’
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