The Operalia Competition has announced its 2025 winners. The first prize winners were Georgian mezzo-soprano Ekaterine Buachidze and Romanian baritone Mihai Damian. The second prize was awarded to American mezzo-soprano Natalie Lewis and Armenian baritone Grisha Martirosyan. Russian soprano Samira Galimova and Italian tenor Dave Monaco won the third prize. The Birgit Nilsson Prize was given to mezzo-soprano Lewis and {…}
The Operalia Competition has announced the 2025 Semi-Finalists. The semi-finalists in the Opera category are Amin Ahangaran (bass, Iran), Davide Battiniello (tenor, Italy), Nathan Bowles (tenor, USA), Ekaterine Buachidze (mezzo-soprano, Georgia), Mihai Damian (baritone, Romania), Aleksandra Domashchuk (soprano, Ukraine), Samira Galimova (soprano, Russia), Alexander Grassauer (bass-baritone, Austria), Geon Kim (baritone, South Korea), Natalie Lewis (mezzo-soprano, USA), Grisha Martirosyan (baritone, Armenia), {…}
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 {…}
The Operalia Competition has announced its 2025 participants. Here are the singers who will compete for the top prize: Amin Ahangaran, bass, Iran Semyon Antakov, baritone, Russia Davide Battiniello, tenor, Italy Nathan Bowles, tenor, USA Bozhidar Bozhkilov, bass, Bulgaria Ekaterine Buachidze, mezzo-soprano, Georgia Gabriela Celińska, mezzo-soprano, Poland Mihai Damian, baritone, Romania Inna Demenkova, soprano, Russia Oleksandra Diachenko, mezzo-soprano, Ukraine Aleksandra {…}
The Operalia Competition has announced the 2024 jury members. This year’s jury includes: André Comploi – Artistic Coordinator, Teatro alla Scala di Milano Sophie de Lint – Director, Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam Marta Domingo – Stage Director Jonathan Friend – Artistic Advisor, The Metropolitan Opera, New York Artistic Advisor, Irish National Opera, Dublin Casting Consultant, Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm Samuel Gelber – {…}
The Operalia Competition has announced its 2022 winners. The competition, which held its finale at the Latvian National Opera, announced that Armenian soprano Juliana Grigoryan and U.S. tenor Anthony León won first prize. Meanwhile, second prize went to Spanish soprano Serena Sáenz, U.S. tenor Duke Kim, and German Countertenor Nils Wanderer. Third Prize went to U.S. mezzo-soprano Maire Therese Carmack, {…}
The Operalia competition has announced the 2022 edition. The world-renowned competition will be held in Riga, Latvia at the Latvian National Opera and Ballet from Oct. 24 through Oct. 30, 2022. Operalia was founded in 1993 by Plácido Domingo to discover and help launch the careers of the most promising young opera singers of today. Last year the competition was {…}
The Operalia competition has announced its 2021 competition. The renowned event will take place in Moscow, Russia on Oct. 18th. to Oct. 24th. at the historic Bolshoi Theatre. Rolex will sponsor the event. The competition, founded in 1993 by Plácido Domingo, was postponed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Applications for this year’s competition are due on May 18, {…}
The Operalia competition has postponed its 2020 edition until 2021. The organization announced that the decision was made due to the ongoing health concerns and global uncertainty generated by the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Operalia team said, “We are deeply saddened by this resolution but the safety and well-being of everyone involved in the planning, traveling and overall development of any {…}
The Operalia Competition has announced its 2020 competition, which will be held in Tel Aviv. The competition announced that the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals will take place Oct. 22 -28, 2020 with a total of 40 participants will be chosen to attend the Tel Aviv competition. Then 20 semi-finalists will be chosen with 10 subsequent finalists getting a chance to {…}
The Operalia Competition has revealed the 12 finalists who will be competing for its top prize on Friday, July 26, 2019. The 12 finalists included Felicia Moore, Gihoon Kim, Christina Nilsson, Piotr Buszewski, Xabier Anduaga, Bongani Justice Kubheka, Liv Redpath, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Anna Shapovalova, Maria Kataeva, Adriana Gonzalez, and Mario Bahg. While making the announcement, legendary singer Plácido Domingo noted {…}