The Accademia Verdiana has announced that 14 singers will participate in this year’s program. The singers were chosen from 148 applicants from 14 countries. This year’s students are sopranos Nicoletta Briguglio, Laura Delogu, Judith Maria Durr, Mariko Hélène Lepage, Yuliya Pogrebnyak, Mariia Smirnova, and Yijia Zhong; mezzo-soprano Erica Cortese; tenors Federico Bonghi, Long Ning, and Dongjae Son; baritone Jaehyeon Kim; {…}
The Accademia Verdiana has announced the 14 students for 2024. The selected participants who were amongst 130 candidates are sopranos Zhadyra Abdullayeva, Giulia Costantini, Melissa D’Ottavi, Maria Kosovitsa, and Elzbieta Maria Warcaba, Yijia Zhong; mezzo-sopranos Arlene Miatto Albeldas and Qian Hui Sun; tenors Francesco Congiu and Seungho Lee; baritones Aibek Khairulla and Shi Yan; basses Agostino Subacchi and Yiduo Zhang. {…}
(Credit: Roberto Ricci) The Accademia Verdiana has selected 12 singers in its VI edition to perfect the Verdi repertoire. The academy selected singers out of 94 candidates and 20 countries. All singers were during auditions that were held during the course of three days by a jury that includes Francesco Izzo (Accademia Verdiana), Giannina Seccia (Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma), {…}