New Alliance with Vienna Volksoper

Foundation representatives traveled to Vienna to sign a collaboration agreement to send Chilean talent to this prestigious opera house. In fact, two artists from the first class of the Ibañez Atkinson Young Artist Program have already been hired there: bass-baritone Pablo Santa Cruz, who is in its ensemble of soloists; and mezzo-soprano Camila Aguilera, a […]

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Melissa Wegner's Visit Featured in El Mercurio

We invite you to read the newspaper’s interview of the executive director of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and the Met Opera Competition. She was invited to Chile by the foundation to meet and give feedback to our students in the Ibañez Atkinson Young Artist Program. She also attended a performance of “El elixir […]

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FIA Artists Shine at “El Elixir de Amor”

The Santiago Municipal Theater presented a very Chilean version of “El elixir de amor,” where two fully Chilean casts shone under the stage direction of Rodrigo Navarrete and musical direction of Diego Matheuz. Our foundation was tremendously proud because many of the singers were FIA Artists: Gonzalo Quinchahual, as Nemorino; Annya Pinto and Vanessa Rojas, […]

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Yo Te Cuento Video Contest Winners Announced

The contest from the Ibáñez Atkinson Foundation inviting seventh and eighth graders from all over Chile to make reading recommendations in a video has already announced its winners. Congratulations to Sofía Liendo and Fernanda Saravia, seventh grade students from Colegio de La Salle in Talca (Maule Region). With support from their teacher Nazareth Salas, they […]

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María José Ferrada Brings Poetry to Huiscapi

Our reading promotion program, Lectura Educa, continues at full speed in this small town in La Araucanía. In the Egon Keutmann and Juan XXIII schools, 45 children participated in our poetry workshops, led by renowned children’s and young adult author María José Ferrada. What a great experience!

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Isabela Diaz Triumphs at Concorso Lirico di Portofino

We are so proud! The FIA-supported soprano, who is a member of the Jette Parker Artists Programme of the Royal Opera House, won two important accolades at CLIP— Best Female Voice and Eva Kleinitz—in addition to a scholarship from The Beckwith Trust for her performance of the arias “Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì,” from La Bohème; […]

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