Operalia

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Operalia is an annual international singing competition for young opera singers . The competition was launched in 1993 by Plácido Domingo .

The price

Singers of all voices between the ages of 18 and 32 are eligible to participate.

Every year around 1000 applications are received, from which a three-person jury selects forty applicants and invites them to the competition, which is held in a different city every year. In a first round, the forty candidates present two freely chosen opera arias from a list of four submitted arias to a ten-person jury of experts. Candidates for the Zarzuela Prize will also present a Zarzuela . Twenty of these forty candidates will be selected for the semifinals, in which the candidates will perform an aria chosen by the jury. The jury will select ten candidates from the twenty candidates for the final. The quarter- and semi-final rounds are accompanied by a répétiteur , the final takes place as part of a gala concert with orchestra under the direction of Plácido Domingo, who also presides over the ten-person jury as a non-voting member.

In addition to the first, second and third prizes, the Zarzuela Prize, Audience Prize, Birgit Nilsson Prize and CulturArte Prize will also be awarded, each with prize money of 10,000 to 30,000 US dollars in 2015.

The 2020 edition has been postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Award winners (selection)

  • 1993 (Paris):
  • 1994 (Mexico City):
  • 1998 (Hamburg):
  • 1999 (Puerto Rico):
  • 2000 (Los Angeles):
  • 2002 (Paris):
  • 2005 (Madrid):
  • 2007 (Paris):
  • 2008 (Québec):
    • Joel Prieto , First Prize, Zarzuela Prize and CulturArte Prize
  • 2009 (Pécs / Budapest):
  • 2010 (Milan):
  • 2011 (Moscow):
    • Pretty Yende , First Prize, Zarzuela Prize and Audience Prize
  • 2013 (Verona):
  • 2014 (Los Angeles):
  • 2015 (London):
    • Ioan Hotea, First Prize and Zarzuela Prize
    • Lise Davidsen , first prize, Birgit Nilsson prize and audience prize
  • 2016 (Guadalajara, Mexico):
  • 2017 (Astana, Kazakhstan)
    • Adela Zaharia, First Prize and Zarzuela Prize
    • Levy Sekgapane, first prize
    • Marco Ciaponi, Zarzuela Prize
    • Oksana Sekerina , Birgit Nilsson Prize
    • Boris Prýgl, Birgit Nilsson Prize
    • Maria Mudryak, audience award
    • Leon Kim, audience award
    • Sooyeon Lee, CulturArte Prize
  • 2018 (Lisbon, Portugal)
    • Emily D'Angelo, First Prize, Zarzuela Prize, Birgit Nilsson Prize, Pepita Embil Prize and Audience Prize
    • Pawel Petrow , first prize and Zarzuela prize
    • Luis Gomes, Zarzuela Prize
    • Samantha Hankey, second prize
    • Migran Agadzhanyan, second prize
    • Rihab Chaieb, third prize
    • Arseny Yakovlev, third prize
    • Josy Santos, CulturArte Prize
  • 2019 (Prague, Czech Republic)
    • First prize: Adriana Gonzalez, Xabier Anduaga
    • Second prize: Maria Kataeva, Gihoon Kim
    • Third prize: Christina Nilsson, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen
    • Birgit Nilsson Prize: Felicia Moore, Christina Nilsson
    • The Pepita Embil Prize of Zarzuela: Adriana Gonzalez
    • The Don Plácido Domingo Ferrer Prize of Zarzuela: Xabier Anduaga
    • Audience Award: Maria Kataeva, Gihoon Kim
    • CulturArte Prize: Anna Shapovalova
  • 2020: Postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Operalia: The Competition . Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  2. ^ Operalia: The Prize . Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b Operalia 2020: Update. In: operaliacompetition.org. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  4. ^ Operalia: The Winners . Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  5. ^ Operalia 2015 London - Winners announced . Article dated July 20, 2015, accessed July 23, 2015.
  6. ↑ Surcoreano Keon Woo y francesa Dreisig ganan Operalia 2016 . Article dated July 24, 2016, accessed July 25, 2016.
  7. ↑ Elsa Dreisig and Keon-Woo Kim win Operalia competition . Article dated July 27, 2016, accessed July 27, 2016.
  8. ↑ Operalia 2017 . Retrieved July 30, 2017.
  9. ↑ Operalia Singing Competition: First prizes for Emily D'Angelo and Pavel Petrov . Article dated September 5, 2018, accessed September 5, 2018.
  10. ^ Mezzo-Soprano Emily D'Angelo from Canada / Italy and Tenor Pavel Petrov from Belarus are the First Prize Winners of Operalia's 26th. Edition. . Retrieved September 5, 2018.
  11. ↑ Operalia Prague 2019. Retrieved July 27, 2019 .