1993-2013: during the last twenty years, Plácido Domingo's singing competition has set in the major opera houses around the globe, and revealed the world's greatest operatic talents, among which we can quote Ainhoa Arteta, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Joseph Calleja, José Cura, Joyce DiDonato, Giuseppe Filianoti, Elizabeth Futral, Joseph Kaiser, Inva Mula, Eric Owens, Erwin Schrott, Nina Stemme, Ludovic Tézier and Rolando Villazón, among many others.
For the fourth consecutive year, medici.tv is proud to partner with the event and to broadcast the competition's Great Final live from Verona's majestic Teatro Filarmonico.
Winners of the 2013 Operalia Competition:
Female
1st Prize – Aida Garifullina, soprano
2nd Prize – Julie Fuchs, soprano
3rd Prize – Kathryn Lewek, soprano
Male
1st Prize – Ao Li, bass-baritone
2nd Prize – Simone Piazzolla, baritone
3rd Prize – Zach Borichevsky, tenor
Audience's Prizes
Kathryn Lewek, soprano
Simone Piazzolla, baritone
Zarzuela Prizes
Hae Ji Chang, soprano
Benjamin Bliss, tenor
Birgit Nilsson Prizes:
Claudia Huckle, contralto
Tracy Cox, soprano
The CulturArte de Puerto Rico Prize:
Vladimir Dvitruk, tenor
Marta Domingo
Stage Director
F. Paul Driscoll
Opera News, Editor-in-Chief
Thierry Fouquet
Opéra National de Bordeaux, France - General Director
Jonathan Friend
The Metropolitan Opera, New York, USA - Artistic Administrator
Paolo Gavazzeni
Fondazione Arena di Verona, Italy - Artistic Director
Jean-Louis Grinda
Opéra de Monte Carlo, Monaco - General Director
Ioan Holender
Artistic Advisor (Metropolitan Opera, Budapest State Opera, Tokyo Spring Festival)
George Enescu Festival, Bucharest, Romania – Artistic Director
Peter Katona
Royal Opera House, London, United Kingdom - Director of Casting
Joan Matabosch
Gran Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain - Artistic Director
Dominique Meyer
Wiener Staatsoper, Austria - Director
Antonio Moral
Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid, Spain – Artistic Director
Andrés Rodriguez
Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Chile - General Director
Helga Schmidt
Palau de les Arts, Valencia, Spain - Director
Ilias Tzempetonidis
Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Italy – Casting Director
