operalia competition

Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Announces 40 Participants For 2018 Competition

The Operalia Competition has announced the 40 singers that were selected to participate in the 2018 Showcase at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, Portugal. The competition founded by Plácido Domingo will see such singers as Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition winners Samantha Hankey and Vanessa Vasquez, Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Rihab Chaieb and Petr Nekoranec, LA Opera's Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Summer Hassan, and international singer Pavel Petrov. Plácido…

Operalia Competition: Ailyn Pérez, Olga Peretyatko & the Superstars of the Early 2000s

The Operalia Competition is just days away and in anticipation of the famed event, we will take a look back down memory lane at the opera singers who became stars after big performances at the competition. For today's installment, we will look at the major stars to come out of the early 2000s. Here are the winners of that decade who have since risen to great operatic stardom. Carmen Giannattasio…

Medici.TV to Showcase Operalia Competition & Major Opera Production from Aix-En-Provence

Medici.TV is ready to give opera fans a healthy offering of their preferred art form this summer. The streaming service, which lists performances for free replays for the first 90 days after a live broadcast will showcase major opera performances from some of the biggest venues this summer. It all kicks off Thursday, July 6, 2017, with a showing of “Hamlet” from the Glyndebourne Festival. The opera is garnering rave…

Nadine Sierra is enjoying one of the most spectacular careers in the opera world. On this day, May 14, 2018, she turns 30, already having managed a historic career by modern standards. So in celebration of the big 3-0 we look at 30 fun facts on Sierra. 1. She is a native of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 2. Sierra trained at the Mannes College of Music and Marilyn Horne’s Music Academy of the West. 3. She was the youngest person to ever receive the Marilyn Horne Foundation Award, 4. She became a Young Artist with the Palm Beach Opera at age…