In Nîmes, in an ideal setting and an exceptional cultural context, the Academy offers a unique training program, dedicated to the study and practice of staging musical works.

Under the tutelage of a professional team, with well-known and experienced performers (singers and musicians), the Academy gives to selected teams the means of staging a work of reference of 20th century musical theater. Individual participants are invited to learn from and observe this process.

The productions are presented to the public and to a panel of professionals at the end of the Academy.

In 2023, the Academy adds to its program by welcoming Dmitri Kourliandski as an associate composer. He will lead a group of six young composers through the issues of writing and musical dramaturgy relating to contemporary musical theater.

The Academy has three main goals:

• To offer a time of training, learning and practice,reflection and exchange to young artists with musical, theatrical and performing arts backgrounds,
To create connections between these young artists and the fundamental music theater repertoires of the 20th and 21st century
• To share this educational period with the public and professionals.