The Operalia Competition has announced its 2023 finalists. Following a day of semifinals, 11 singers will compete in the opera finals while five singers will compete in the Zarzuela finals. Here are the finalists: Finalists Opera Semyon Antakov, baritone, Russia Caitlin Gotimer, soprano, USA Navasard Hakobyan, baritone, Armenia Eugénie Joneau, mezzo-soprano, France Taehan Kim, baritone, South Korea Omer Kobiljak, tenor, {…}
The Operalia competition has announced the semi-finalists for its 2023 edition. Following two days of Quarterfinals, the competition selected 22 singers who will compete for a place in the opera finals and 12 singers who will compete in the Zarzuela finals. Here is the list: Semi-finalists Opera Semyon Antakov, baritone, Russia Nicolò Balducci, countertenor, Italy Gabrielle Beteag, mezzo-soprano, USA John {…}
The Operalia Competition has announced the venue for its 30th anniversary. The organization said that the competition will be hosted by the Cape Philharmonic and the Cape Town Opera and will be held at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa. Applications will be open until May 5. The 2022 Operalia competition was held in Riga in Latvia and {…}
Upon arrival in Latvia, baritone Vasily Sokolov was disqualified from the Operalia competition. Earlier this week, music critic Sergey Bulanov announced the disqualification via telegram and noted that Sokolov was not allowed to compete because of his service in the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after Alexandrov. Sokolov was the only Russian participant in this year’s Operalia {…}
The World Operalia Competition has announced the finalists for the 2022 edition. The finalists in the opera category include USA mezzo-soprano Maire Therese Carmack, USA tenor Anthony Ciaramitaro, Armenian soprano Juliana Grigoryan, South Korean bass-baritone Jongwon Han, Finnish soprano Jenni Hietala, South Korean bass In-Ho Jeong, bass, USA tenor Duke Kim, USA tenor, Anthony León, USA tenor James Ley, South {…}
The World Operalia Competition has announced the semifinalists for the 2022 edition. The semifinalists in the opera category include Australian mezzo Fleuranne Brockway, US mezzo Maire Therese Carmack, US tenor Anthony Ciaramitaro, Belgian soprano Louise Foor, Armenian soprano Juliana Grigoryan, Korean bass-baritone Jongwon Han, Korean soprano Yewon Han, Finnish soprano Jenni Hietala, Korean bass In-Ho Jeong, US tenor Duke Kim, {…}
The Operalia Competition has announced the singers who will participate in this year’s Competition at the Latvian National Opera in Riga. This year’s participants come from the USA, Australia, Venezuela, Mexico, South Korea, Italy, New Zealand, Latvia, Finland, Spain, Russia, Mongolia, Germany, China, Turkey, Belgium, and Armenia. Rolex will sponsor the 2022 edition, which will be held between Oct. 24 {…}
Operalia has announced the winners of its 2021 competition. Held at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the competition saw young artists from all over the world compete before a distinguished panel of judges in the categories of opera and zarzuela. First Prize – Tenor Ivan Ayon-Rivas (Peru) and mezzo-soprano Victoria Karkacheva (Russia) Second Prize – Soprano Mane Galoyan (Armenia), tenor {…}
The Operalia Competition has announced the finalists for its 2021 edition. The finalists in the opera category are tenor Ivan Ayon-Rivas (Peru ), baritone Dmitry Cheblykov (Russia ), tenor Bekhzod Davronov (Uzbekistan), soprano Mané Galoyan (Armenia), tenor Jonah Hoskins (USA ), mezzo-soprano Victoria Karkacheva (Russia ), tenor Valery Makarov (Russia), countertenor Keymon Murrah (USA ), baritone Edward Nelson (USA ), baritone Jusung Park (South Korea ), and soprano Emily Pogorelc (USA ). Meanwhile, the zarzuela finalists are tenor Ivan Ayon-Rivas {…}
The Operalia Competition has announced the semifinalists for its 2021 edition. In the opera category, the semi-finalists including tenor Ivan Ayon-Rivas (Peru), mezzo-soprano Gayane Babajanyan (Russia), bass-baritone Vladislav Buialskyi (Ukraine), baritone Dmitry Cheblykov (Russia), bass SungJun Cho (South Korea), mezzo-soprano Linsey Coppens (Belgium), tenor Bekhzod Davronov (Uzbekistan), soprano Mané Galoyan (Armenia), tenor Jonah Hoskins (USA), mezzo-soprano Lilia Istratii (Moldova), mezzo-soprano Victoria Karkacheva {…}
The Operalia Competition has announced its 2021 participants. This year the competition will showcase artists from Peru, Russia, the USA, Mongolia, France, Spain, Moldova, Denmark, South Korea, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Italy, Canada, and Uzbekistan. Here is a full run-down of the singers who will compete: Ivan Ayon-Rivas, tenor, Peru Gayane Babajanyan, mezzo-soprano, Russia Kirill Belov, tenor, Russia Vladislav Buialskyi, bass-baritone, Ukraine {…}