The Premio Internazionale Ottavio Ziino is set to hold its finale on Sept. 22 at the Teatro Ghione in Rome.

The finals will celebrate the competition’s 21st edition and will see the first prize winner take home 8,000 euros and the Coppa “OTTAVIO ZIINO.” The second prize winner will receive 4,000 euros and the Targa “OTTAVIO ZIINO” while the third prize winner will take home 2,000 euros and the Targa “OTTAVIO ZIINO.”

The elimination rounds were held in the summer at the Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Auditorium Cité Internationale des arts di Parigi, Teatro Real de Madrid, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia de Valencia, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Teatro dell’Opera e del Balletto di Ankara, Teatro dell’Opera Alexander Spendiaryan di Yerevan, Teatro Wielki – Opera Nazionale Polacca a Varsavia, and Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

There will be three juries at the finale, a technical jury, a critics jury, and an audience jury.

The jury is headed by Francesco Giambrone, Sovrintendente of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and also features Massimo Biscardi, Sovrintendente of the Fondazione Lirico-Sinfonica Petruzzelli e Teatri di Bari; Liviana Caporale, Casting Manager of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia; Waldemar Dabrowski, General Manager of the Teatr Wielki di Varsavia; Brian Dickie, former General Director of the Chicago Opera Theater; singer Murat Karahan; Toufic Maatouk, orchestra director of the Saudi Music Hubs; Dominque Meyer, Superintendent of the Teatro alla Scala; Paolo Pinamonti, Artistic Director of the Macerata Opera Festival; Paolo Rodda, Artistic Director of the Fondazione Teatro Lirico G. Verdi di Trieste; Sergey Smbatyan, from the Orchestra Filarmonica di Malta; Alain Surrans, General Director of the Teatro d’Angers Nantes Opera; Ilias Tzempetonidis from the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli; and Wally Santarcangelo, Artistic Director of the Concorso Lirico Internazionale “Ottavio Ziino.”