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 {…}
The Operalia Competition has announced its semifinalists for both the opera and zarzuela competition. Audiences will be able to view the semifinals via live stream on Operalia’s Facebook page. In the opera competition, audiences will see baritone Germán Alcántara, tenor Xabier Anduaga, tenor Mario Bahg, tenor, soprano Lada Bočková, tenor Piotr Buszewski, soprano Adriana Gonzalez, mezzo-soprano Maria Kataeva, baritone Gihoon Kim, {…}
The Operalia Competition is set to get underway this Sunday, July 21. Here is a rundown of the competition’s schedule. The Quarterfinals are slated to take place on Sunday and Monday, July 21 and 22. These live auditions will feature all 40 selected contestants singing two arias with piano accompaniment. Jury members will choose one aria and the contestants will {…}
Operalia has announced the 12 finalists who will win compete for the top prize at the annual competition. Per the opera competition the finalists announced are Russian tenor Migran Agadzhanyan, Candian mezzo Rihab Chaieb, Canadian/Italian mezzo Emily D’Angelo, Portuguese tenor Luis Gomes, American mezzo Samantha Hankey, German baritone Johannes Kammler, Chinese tenor Long Long, Belarus tenor Pavel Petrov, American baritone Sean Michael Plumb, South African {…}
The 2018 Operalia Competition has announced its semifinalists. Per the official website, the singers have been whittled down to 24 artists for the opera competition and 12 for the Zarzuela section. The semifinalists in the opera slate include soprano Zarina Abaeva, tenor Migran Agadzhanyan, soprano Cornelia Beskow, mezzo Rihab Chaieb, mezzo Emily D’Angelo, tenor Luis Gomes, mezzo Samantha Hankey, mezzo {…}
The Operalia Competition has announced the 40 singers that were selected to participate in the 2018 Showcase at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, Portugal. The competition founded by Plácido Domingo will see such singers as Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition winners Samantha Hankey and Vanessa Vasquez, Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Rihab Chaieb and Petr Nekoranec, LA {…}
The Operalia Competition is just days away and in anticipation of the famed event, we will take a look back down memory lane at the opera singers who became stars after big performances at the competition. For today’s installment, we will look at the major stars to come out of the early 2000s. Here are the winners of that decade {…}
Medici.TV is ready to give opera fans a healthy offering of their preferred art form this summer. The streaming service, which lists performances for free replays for the first 90 days after a live broadcast will showcase major opera performances from some of the biggest venues this summer. It all kicks off Thursday, July 6, 2017, with a showing of {…}