(Photo Credit: Elena del Real)

Spanish soprano Iria Goti and Serbian baritone Milan Perisic won the top prizes at the 43rd Ciudad de Logroño-La Rioja International Singing Competition.

The final took place Saturday, Oct. 10, at the Logroño City Hall Auditorium, as part of an edition held Oct. 8 to 11. The prize carries 5,000 euros and a trophy.

Goti, who earned the first woman’s prize, also received the Friends of the Opera of Madrid Trophy, worth 1,500 euros, along with a recital at the Teatro de la Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid.

Serbian baritone Milan Perisic won the first men’s prize.

Argentine mezzo-soprano Jasmin Forastiero and Argentine bass Max Hochmuth took the second prizes. The third prizes went to Romanian soprano Susana Nanejde and Argentine tenor Agustín Gómez Cortez.

Hochmuth received the Oviedo Opera Trophy, and Mexican soprano Khatia Alejandra Romero Reyes won the Pedro Lavirgen Trophy for best opera performer. Countertenor Álvaro Basco Jiménez received the Antón García Abril Trophy for best performer of Spanish song, and baritone Javier Povedano Ruiz received the C.L.A. Pepe Eizaga Trophy, in memory of Manuel Ausensi, for best zarzuela performer. Mezzo-soprano Ángela Sánchez Lindo received the Most Promising Voice Trophy.

The jury for the final was chaired by José Antonio Toyas, the competition’s creator and honorary president of the C.L.A. Pepe Eizaga. The prizewinners performed in a winners’ concert on Sunday, Oct. 11, also at the auditorium.