Canada and Russia sweep Domingo’s Operalia
mainResults of the 2018 contest:
1st prize: Emily D’Angelo (Canada, mezzo) and Pavel Petrov (Belarus, tenor)
2nd: Samantha Hankey (US, mezzo) and Migran Agadzhanyan (Russia, tenor)
3rd: Rihab Chaieb (Canada, mezzo) and Arseny Yakovlev (Russia, tenor).
This must be the first contest in the past year that Samantha Hankey hasn’t won.
D’Angelo is a Met National Council winner.
D’Angelo also won the audience prize and the zarzuela prize.
And she got a price last year in the Bertelsmann NEUE STIMMEN contest and one in Canada months ago.
I find her voice rough in timbre and she wants to be as perfect as a roboter, which is not emotional at all.
But this seems to impress any jury…
Sorry for critisizing, but to the contrary the swedish Soprano Cristina Nilsson has a really touching way to sing and has technique and a voloptuous voice …