Cesare in the heart of Champagne: Yoncheva and Dumaux like a glass of the finest Taittinger

Giulio Cesare, Opéra de Reims, May 8 2011

Christian Schiaretti ..... director
Jean Claude Malgoire ..... conductor

Sonya Yoncheva ..... Cleopatra
Christophe Dumaux ..... Giulio Cesare
Lina Markeby ..... Sesto
Alessandra Visentin ..... Cornelia
Dominique Visse ..... Tolomeo
Ugo Guagliardo ..... Achilla
Valérie Yang Seng ..... Nireno
David Witczak ..... Curio

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.

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!

C.f. AP article

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