Showing posts with label Operalia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Operalia. Show all posts

Monday, July 25, 2011

Operalia 2011: Congrats to Pretty and René!

Pretty Yende, a young South-African soprano --who amazed the Parisian crowd last December by winning the International Bel-Canto Competition Vincenzo Bellini-- is now conquering the world. Last night she's won the Operalia 2011. She actually shared the prize with an excellent American tenor, René Barbera (American tenors are like Swedish sopranos!)

You can watch the whole final night --which took place last night at the Stanislavski Theater in Moscow-- on medici.tv (c.f. this link)

Meet your new stars [videos attached below]


Saturday, May 8, 2010

Profitons bien de la jeunesse: Sonya Yoncheva - 2010 Operalia Winner

In the video below --extracted from the Operalia competition concert--  Sonya Yoncheva sings Manon with an ease and precision of rare quality. People who attended the finals say she sounded very impressive at La Scala too.

Best of luck to pretty Sonya, and hope to see her in some of the Paris venues sooner rather than later.



Sunday, May 2, 2010

Operalia WINNERS



Results

1st prize: Sonya Yoncheva and Stefan Pop

2nd prize: Rosa Feola and Ievgen Orlov & Giordano Lucà

3rd prize: Dinara Alieva and Chae Jun Lim

Birgit Nilsson Prize: Ryan McKinny

Two Audience Prizes: Stefan Pop and Rosa Feola

Zarzuela Prizes: Rosa Feola and Nathaniel Peake

CONGRATS!



The recording of the entire evening is available here . Enjoy! ;) 


Friday, April 30, 2010

medici.tv will broadcast Operalia live from La Scala

Operalia is the famous Placido Domingo's competition for the young singers. The competition started in Paris in 1993, when Nina Stemme, Kwangchul Youn and Inva Mula shared the 1st prize.

Ever since the competition took place every year. Sadly many winners were 4-year-wonders, while far many of those who were prized 2nd or 3rd became actually famous.


This year, besides the usual prizes, there will also be two Birgit Nilsson prizes. First two rounds of competition are finished and the finals are scheduled for Sunday, May 2 at 20:30 (cet) in Milan at La Scala. The concert will be live webcast by Medici.tv .

The finalists are