The Paris Opera Competition has announced its 2025 winners. The first prize winner was Welsh baritone Steffan Lloyd Owen, a member of the International Opera Studio at Zurich Opera while second prize went to Russian soprano Elene Gvritishvili, a graduate of the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire and of the Bolshoi Young Artist Programme The Audience prize was awarded to {…}
The Paris Opera Competition has announced the winners of its 2023 edition. First Prize, also known as the Prix Pierre Vernes, and Audience Prize went to French soprano Lauranne Oliva, who is a member of the studio at the Opéra du Rhin where she has taken on roles in “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” and “L’Enfant et les Sortilèges.” She is set {…}
The Paris Opera Competition has announced the winners of its 2022 showcase. Taking home the Prix Pierre Vernes (first prize) was Anna Harvey. Second place (also known as the Prix Claude Dassault) went to Aytaj Shikhalizada. The winner of the third place prize, the Prix Nicola Oppermann-Labourdette, was Serena Saenz Molinero; Saenz Molinero also took home the Prix du Public {…}
On Friday night the house was full and the atmosphere was one of great anticipation for the sixth edition of the Paris Opera Competition at the Theatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. The event has taken place here every year since its founding in 2010 by the late Pierre Vernes, who died in 2017. Each competition has been held as a {…}
Russian baritone Ilya Kutyukhin has been announced the winner of the 2019 Paris Opera Competition. He is this year’s recipient of both the “Claude Dassault” First Prize and the Audience Prize. Facing off against nine other finalists, Kutyukhin performed Yeletsky’s aria “Ya vas lublyu” from “Pique Dame,” and “Ebben, cosi si narra! – Quando le soglie paterne” from Donizetti’s “La {…}
