International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition

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The International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition (spelling Internationaler Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition ) is a music competition for classical singing that was held at the Vienna Chamber Opera from 1982 to 2012 and has been an independent association since 2013, organizing qualification and final rounds worldwide. The annual competition has the opera (and operetta ) sections , with men and women being rated together.

History and organization

The singing competition was launched in 1982 by Hans Gabor (1924–1994) under the name Belvedere Singing Competition . Gabor, founder and long-time director of the Vienna Chamber Opera , wanted to create a practical competition for young opera talents, more of a “talent exchange at the highest level” than art for art's sake. Therefore, the jury should not be dominated by music college teachers and academic demands, but by experts who decide on the commitment and careers of singers: directors of operas and festivals, music organizers and representatives of the media. Even talent agencies were officially invited as observers. The competition started with a focus on opera and was expanded to include an operetta competition in 1988 . Since then, 1st to 3rd prizes have been awarded in both categories, for women and men together. There are also a number of special prizes, a media prize and an audience prize.

As the international competition quickly established itself, the number of registrations rose sharply. In order to be able to carry out the competition in the time available and with a realistic load for the jury, a multi-stage competition procedure was introduced in 1992. While in many other singing competitions the pre-selection, which is decisive via a competition invitation, is carried out on the basis of DVDs sent in, the pre-selection in the Belvedere singing competition takes place in face-to-face competition rounds in different cities. In 1992 there were pre-selection events in thirteen cities worldwide; in 2012 there were more than fifty cities.

FINALE concert of the Belvedere singing competition on July 6th 2013: in the Het Muziektheater Amsterdam

The entire Viennese jury does not travel around the world, but the pre-selection round takes place with the support of the respective host institutions. In the German-speaking countries, the preselection rounds took place e.g. B. 2012 at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, at the Theater Erfurt , at the Music Academy in Cologne , at the Bavarian Theater Academy in Munich, at the Stuttgart Chamber Theater , at the Graz Opera , at the Vienna Conservatory , at the Vienna Chamber Opera and at the Zurich Opera House . The winners of the pre-selection competitions are invited to the final rounds (1st round, semi-finals, finals) (until 2012 in Vienna, 2013 in Amsterdam). In 2012, 138 invitations were sent to Vienna.

In 1995 the competition was renamed the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in memory of the founder who died the previous year. Since 1999 the competition has been led by Isabella Gabor (widow of the founder) and Holger Bleck , who also ran the Vienna Chamber Opera together until 2012.

After a semi-final, around 20 singers reach the final competition. Until 2012, the public final concert took place in the Vienna City Hall and a gala concert of the award winners in the city theater of Baden in Lower Austria .

Since 2013, the final rounds, which were previously based in Vienna, have been held alternately at the world's major opera houses. 2013 started with Amsterdam. Face-to-face competition rounds (preselections) will continue to be held worldwide between March and June of each year.

Award winners

Prize winners who achieved a 1st prize were:

Competitions 2010-2019

  • 2019 (38th competition in Villach, Austria): Valeriia Savinskaia
  • 2018 (37th competition in Jurmala, Latvia): Sungho Kim
  • 2017 (36th competition in Moscow): Aigul Akhmetshina
  • 2016 (35th competition in Cape Town, with the final concert at Cape Town Opera ): Nicholas Brownlee
  • 2015 (34th competition in Amsterdam): Levy Sekgapane
  • 2014 (33rd competition in Düsseldorf): Irina Churilova
  • 2013 (32nd competition in Amsterdam): Dong-Hwan Lee
  • 2012 (31st competition): Beomjin KIM (opera)
  • 2011 (30th competition): Rachel Willis-Sørensen (opera)
  • 2010 (29th competition): Antonio Poli (opera), Yitian Luan (operetta)

Competitions 2000–2009

  • 2009 (28th competition): Pretty Yende (opera and operetta)
  • 2008 (27th competition): Guanqun Yu (opera), Naomi O'Connell (operetta)
  • 2007 (26th competition): Angela Meade (opera and operetta)
  • 2006 (25th competition): Brian Mulligan (opera), Iurie Ciobanu (operetta)
  • 2005 (24th competition): Adriana Kucerová (opera), Janja Vuletic (operetta)
  • 2004 (23rd competition): Ilya Kuzmin (opera), Alice Goulipian (operetta)
  • 2003 (22nd competition): Laquita Mitchell (opera), 1st operetta prize not awarded
  • 2002 (21st competition): Burak Bilgili (opera), Arpiné Rahdjian (operetta)
  • 2001 (20th competition): Woo-Kyung Kim (opera), Christiane Kohl (operetta)
  • 2000 (19th competition): Matthias Rexroth (opera), Kristiane Kaiser (operetta)

Competitions 1990–1999

  • 1999 (18th competition): Anna Lorenc (opera), Dietmar Kerschbaum (operetta)
  • 1998 (17th competition): Anke Vondung (opera), Romana Noack (operetta)
  • 1997 (16th competition): Stuart Skelton (opera), 1st operetta prize not awarded
  • 1996 (15th competition): Vladimir Atanelishvili (opera), Marie Devellereau (operetta)
  • 1995 (14th competition): Marina Mescheriakowa (opera), Gerhard Siegel (operetta)
  • 1994 (13th competition): Stanislaw Schwez (opera), Sally du Randt (operetta)
  • 1993 (12th competition): Anna Rita Taliento (opera), Althea Maria Papulias (operetta)
  • 1992 (11th competition): Detlef Roth (opera), Laura Claycomb (operetta)
  • 1991 (10th competition): Adina-Cristina Nitescu (opera), 1st operetta prize not awarded
  • 1990 (9th competition): Woiciech Drabowicz (opera), Simina Badea (operetta)

Competitions 1982–1989

  • 1989 (8th competition): Peter Edelmann (opera), Silvana Dussmann (operetta)
  • 1988 (7th competition): María Bayo (opera), Ildikó Raimondi-Szabo (operetta)
  • 1987 (6th competition): Trond Halstein Moe (opera)
  • 1986 (5th competition): Jolanta Wrozyna (opera)
  • 1985 (4th competition): Carsten Harboe Stabell (opera)
  • 1984 (3rd competition): Jianyi Zhang (opera)
  • 1983 (2nd competition): Harrie Peters (opera)
  • 1982 (1st competition): John Hurst (opera)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition Vienna .
  2. ↑ Holger Bleck, Martin Sigmund: Hidden Time. The art of the hour in the Vienna Chamber Opera . In: Gesa Birnkraut, Karin Wolf (Hrsg.): Cultural Management Concrete , Volume 4. Hamburg 2010, ZDB -ID 2442690-8 , pp. 186–188.
  3. ↑ International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition 2013 in Amsterdam APA announcement of November 26, 2012, accessed on July 23, 2015.
  4. ^ Carinthia newspaper: 38th Belvedere competition. Young Russian achieved a double victory in Carinthia. Kleine Zeitung , July 8, 2019, accessed on July 1, 2020 . .
  5. ↑ University of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin: Sungho Kim wins International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition 2018 .
  6. ↑ Rhingold Publishing: Aigul Akhmetshina wins Belvedere Competition 2017 .
  7. ↑ Rhingold Publishing: ... This year's overall winner what the American bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee ... .
  8. ↑ Tyrolean daily newspaper: South African Levy Sekgapane wins Belvedere singing competition 2015 . APA notification dated July 5, 2015, accessed March 6, 2020.
  9. ↑ 33rd International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition will take place in Germany for the first time in 2014 on APA on July 8, 2013, accessed on July 8, 2013.
  10. ↑ South Korean Dong-Hwan Lee wins Belvedere Singing Competition 2013 in Standard on July 7, 2013