Sunday, August 2, 2009

Operalia 2009 - final results - UPDATED

Yesterday was the final round of the Operalia 2009. As far as I could see there was no official results published until this point on the www.operalia.org , so the final results below are not official. But I was there, so here you are...
(Update: about at 7pm they published the results so it is official now - and I missed out one...)

Special prizes:
  • Culturarte prize: Arnold Rutkowski, tenor, Poland (10.000 USD)
  • Special prize offered by Pécs: Kostas Smoriginas, bass-baritone, Lithuania (it is a special Zsolnay vase - should be expensive... and a possibility for a concert in Pécs)
  • Sprize prize offered by Budapest: Auxiliadora Toledano, soprano, Spain (a possibility for a concert at next year's Budapest Spring Festival)
  • Rolex Audience Prize - Female voice: Julia Novikova, soprano, Russia (Rolex watch)
  • Rolex Audience Prize - Male voice: Dimitrios Flemotomos, tenor, Greece (Rolex watch)
  • Update: this one was missing: special prize from the Hungarian State Opera House - possibility to perform in a role during the season 2010-11: for Alexey Kudrya, tenor, Russia
Zarzuela prize - Female voice: Angel Blue, soprano, USA (10.000 USD)
Zarzuela prize - Male voice: Dimitrios Flemotomos, tenor, Greece (10.000 USD)

3rd prize - Female voice: Auxiliadora Toledano, soprano, Spain & Anita Watson, soprano, Australia (10.000 USD)
3rd prize - Male voice: Kostas Smoriginas, bass-baritone, Lithuania & Wenwei Zhang, bass, China (10.000 USD)

2nd prize - Female voice: Angel Blue, soprano, USA (20.000 USD)
2nd prize - Male voice: Jordan Bisch, bass, USA & Dimitrios Flemotomos, tenor, Greece (20.000 USD)

1st prize - Female voice: Julia Novikova, soprano, Russia (30.000 USD)
1st prize - Male voice: Alexey Kudrya, tenor, Russia (30.000 USD)

(Later on you can read my impressions as well. Hope these results are correct :))) - I'm quite sure they are correct, but I was a bit excited because of family matters :)))) so better wait for the official results...)

Congratulations to all the contestants it was a really enjoyable evening!


1 comment:

  1. Hi Thank yo very much for your post about operalia final!
    Can you also write the programm of the final?

    Thank you,

    Paola

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