South African tenor wins Belvedere (but not its audience)
mainA South African tenor, Levy Sekgapane, last night won the 34th International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition, which was held in Amsterdam.
But the second-placed Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen won both the audience and the international media prizes, demonstrating perhaps a wider public appeal.
The jury was chaired by John Mordler, the former Monte Carlo intendant.
First prize (7,000 euros)
Tenor Levy Sekgapane
Second prize (3,500 euros)
Soprano Lise Davidsen
Third prize (2,500 euros)
Tenor Their Ki Park
Audience Prize (2,000 euros)
Soprano Lise Davidsen
Price of the international media jury (1,500 euros)
Soprano Lise Davidsen
Dutch broadcaster NPO Radio 4 has posted a video with the contestants on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyC2cBWbTcw
So Lise ended up winning as much money as the first prize winner and got good publicity. Not a bad day’s work.
Loved Levy’s performance.