YOUNG OPERA SINGERS ON A WINNING STREAK
PRESS
ROOM
Season Headlines:
LA
Opera on AIR!
Rostropovich Dies at 80
LA Opera Offers $20 Seats
to Selected Performances of
Porgy and Bess / Merry Widow
LA Opera Announces
2007-2008 Season
AWARDS GALORE!!
Joyce DiDonato, Vivica Genaux, and Other Young Opera Singers on a Winning
Streak
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Steps Down
as Music Director in 2009; Venezuelan Conductor GUSTAVO DUDAMEL Takes
Over
LA Philharmonic's TRISTAN PROJECT:
Christian Franz Replaces Alan Woodrow as Tristan
LA Opera launches Recovered Voices:
Music Suppressed by the 3rd Reich
A New Bilingual Recording of PETER &
the WOLF - with ANTONIO BANDERAS and SOPHIA LOREN
of FanFaire GIVEAWAYS
AUDIOFILES
AUDIENCE ETIQUETTE
MUSICPLANNER
PRESS ROOM
NEW RELEASES
FOOD & MUSIC
SITE MAP
Sign up:
EMAIL
UPDATE
FREE CD!
STORE
USA UK
DE
FR
Buy
sheet music
back to top
Mezzo-soprano JOYCE DIDONATO Receives Second Beverly Sills Artist Award
JOYCE
DIDONATO is the second recipient of the Metropolitan Opera's
annual Beverly Sills Award for young singers. The award, established in 2005
with an endowment gift from Agnes Varis, a Metropolita Opera board director,
and her husband Karl Leichtman in honor of Beverly Sills carries a $50,000
cash prize and is the largest of its kind in the country. It is given to extraordinarily
gifted singers between the ages of 25 and 40 who have appeared in featured
solo roles at the Metropolitan Opera. The winner is chosen annually by Beverly
Sills and Nathan Leventhal. The first Sills awardee is baritone Nathan
Gunn.
Ms. DiDonato is currently performing as Rosina in the Met's new production
of Il Barbiere di Siviglia opposite tenor Lawrence Brownlee, making
his Met debut as Almaviva, and baritone Russell Braun as Figaro. The high-definition
simulcast of the March 24 matinee receives an encore presentation in movie
theaters around the U.S. on Tuesday, May 15 at 7:00 p.m.
VIVICA GENAUX Wins NY City Opera's Christopher Keene Award
Mezzo-soprano
VIVICA GENAUX was
honored with the Christopher Keene Award at New York City Opera presentation
of its 2006-7 Awards for Artistic Excellence on April 18, 2007. The award
is given annually to an artist performing in new or unusual repertory.
Robin Thompson, the Associate Artistic Director of the Company, in informing
Vivica, told her that “the Award recognized her achievement in the pivotal
role of Juno/Ino in the rarely performed Semele,” which
she performed when she made her company debut in the Fall of 2006.
PALM BEACH OPERA Announces Winners of 2007 Vocal Competition
Palm Beach Opera awarded 14 outstanding young singers $85,000 in prize money
in the 2007 Vocal Competition held on April 26-27, 2007 at the Kravis Center
for the Performing Arts in downtown West Palm Beach. The four-day event will
culminate with the Winners Concert on April 29, 2024 at 3:00 pm which is open
to the public. Tickets range from $15 - $75 and can be purchased by calling
the Palm Beach Opera Box Office at 561.833.7888.
The winners are:
Advanced Division (ages 24-30)
1st Place - Marianne Cope, Soprano, 30, NJ
2nd Place - Caitlin Lynch, Soprano, 26, WA
3rd Place - Jonathan Beyer, Baritone, 25, PA
4th Place - Layla Claire, Soprano, 25, PA
5th Place - Takesha Kizart, Soprano, 30, PA
6th Place - Amanda Crider, Mezzo Soprano, 30, NY
7th Place - David Lomeli, Tenor, 26, CA
8th Place - Albert Lee, Tenor, 30, CT
Junior Division (ages 18-23)
1st Place - Nadine Sierra, Soprano, 18, FL
2nd Place - Jonathan Michie, Baritone, 22, NY
3rd Place - Tai Oney, Counter Tenor, 22, FL
4th Place - Jeanette Vecchione, Soprano, 23, NY
5th Place - Samuel Schultz, Baritone, 20, TX
6th Place - Sharleen Joynt, Soprano, 22, NY
More than 300 singers applied from throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico,
and Puerto Rico. Of those, approximately 70 were selected to compete in the
Advanced Division and the Junior Division. Many past winners have gone on
to international careers in the opera world performing at institutions such
as the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Paris Opéra Bastille, San Francisco
Opera, La Scala, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Vienna State Opera, New York City
Opera, and Palm Beach Opera. Past winners include Kate Aldrich, Nicole Cabell,
Jesús Garcia, Vivica Genaux, Sandra Lopez, Bengi Mayone, Lucas Meecham, Lauren
McNeese, Brian Mulligan, Ailyn Pérez, Dean Peterson, Christopher Schaldenbrand,
Wayne Tigges, Gregory Turay, Alfred Walker, and Peter Volpe.
Design and Original Content: FanFaire LLC © 1997-2006. All rights reserved.