The Operalia Competition has announced the jury for 2025.

The competition will be held from Oct. 20 to 26 at the Bulgarian Concert Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria.

This year’s jury will be led by Isamay Benavente (Artistic Director, Teatro de la Zarzuela Madrid), Sophie de Lint (Director, Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam), Marta Domingo (Stage Director), Jonathan Friend (Artistic Advisor, Irish National Opera, Dublin; Casting Consultant, Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm), Paolo Gavazzeni (Artistic Coordinator, Teatro alla Scala di Milano), Tobias Hasan (Opera Director,  Staatsoper Berlin), Peter Katona (Director of Casting, Royal Opera House, London), Robert Körner (Casting Director, Wiener Staatsoper), Joan Matabosch (Artistic Director, Teatro Real, Madrid), Erik Malmquist (Head of Casting, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich), Evamaria Wieser (Casting Consultant & Director of the Young Singers Project, Salzburg Festival, European Casting Consultant, Lyric Opera of Chicago), and Sonya Yoncheva (Soprano, Founder of SY11 Events).

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