The Opera Competition has announced that its 2019 edition will be held in Prague, the Czech Republic. The competition, known to launch the next generation of opera singers, will begin accepting applications between Nov. 15, 2018, and February 1, 2019. The competition is open to singers of all voice types, between the ages of 18 and 32 years old and who are {…}
The Operalia 2017 competition has come to an end with Adela Zaharia and Levy Sekgapane as the winners of the first prizes. I sat through the entire transmission, listening to a truly talented class of singers, many of whom already have the musical maturity and performance acumen to be major figures in the opera world in the not-so-distant future. With {…}
Plácido Domingo’s famed Operalia Competition will head to South Korea next summer, according to The Opera Critic. This is the third time that the competition is coming to the Asian continent in the competition’s history. The first time that Operalia was held in Asia was in 1997 when it headed to Toyko. That year’s winner was Chang Yong Liao of {…}
Kazakhstan will play host to the 25th Operalia Competition in July 2017. The famed competition will be making its return to Eastern Europe after making an appearance there in 2011 at Moscow. It also took place in Pécs and Budapest in 2009. Otherwise the competition has mainly done rounds in Western Europe, North America and Asia (Tokyo and Beijing). Last {…}
