The Eurasia Festival’s Opera Studio is set to shift their focus on scenes and ensembles from Mozart and Da Ponte’s “Don Giovanni” throughout February and March.

The Eurasia Festival, which is led by Aza Sydykov and Marc Verzatt at the Eurasia Cultural Center in Manhattan, will take place on Feb. 29, March 7, 14, and 21, culminating in a performance scheduled for March 27, 2020.

The Eurasia Festival’s Opera Studio is a year-round program offering aspiring singers an in-depth study of operatic repertoire with a primary focus on Russian and Eurasian operas. The training and performance program includes intensive musical coachings and staging rehearsals.

Verzatt has directed productions all around the world with such companies as the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Houston Grand Opera, the Florida Grand Opera, and the opera companies of Fort Worth, Lake George, Madison, Arizona, Toledo, Atlanta, Kansas City, Baltimore, Idaho, and Mississippi. He has also served on the faculty of such institutions as the Mannes School of Music and Yale University.

Sydyzkov is co-founder and Artistic Director of the Wilmington Music Festival and serves as President of the Kyrgyz American Foundation in New York City. He has collaborated with numerous world-renowned artists and teachers, including Plácido Domingo, Christine Weidinger, Joyce DiDonato, Zurab Sotkilava, Mikhail Svetlev, Arthur Levy, Trish McCaffrey, Mark Schnaible, Beth Roberts, and Robert White.