The French-Cypriot soprano Sarah Aristidou has received the Belmont Prize for Contemporary Music. The soprano will receive €20,000 from the Forberg-Schneider-Stiftung. The Prize is a music award named after the place of destiny in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” The Munich-based Forberg Schneider Foundation seeks to promote outstanding achievements in the field of contemporary music and biennially-awards prizes endowed with {…}