For two weeks, RomeSMARTS students engage in an intensive program that includes:

• Daily performance skills master class
• Daily Italian language class provided by Università Popolare di Roma (UPTER)
• Guest master classes in recent years have included Filomena Schettino, voice, Orazio Maione, piano and principals of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Orchestra
• Seminars in music performance, pedagogy, and collaborative skills by University of Toronto faculty and guests
• Performances: salon concerts and grand finale concert at the Conservatorio di Musica “Santa Cecilia” (Sala Medaglioni)
• Attendance at a full opera production by the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in their summer home at the ruins of Terme di Caracalla
• Cultural excursions to the Vatican, Borghese Gallery, the Roman Forum and Galleria Doria Pamphilj
• Elective credit available for currently enrolled University of Toronto Music students