Domingo names Operalia contestants for Moscow 2021
NewsSince Placido Domingo has found hospitality there, many of this year’s runners are from Russia. Anyone you recognise?
Ivan Ayon-Rivas, tenor, Peru
Gayane Babajanyan, mezzo-soprano, Russia
Kirill Belov, tenor, Russia
Vladislav Buialskyi, bass-baritone, Ukraine
Dmitry Cheblykov, baritone, Russia
SungJun Cho, bass, South Korea
Linsey Coppens, mezzo-soprano, Belgium
Bekhzod Davronov, tenor, Uzbekistan
Nicolai Elsberg, bass, Denmark
Ochirsaikhan Erdenee, baritone, Mongolia
Axelle Fanyo, soprano, France
Marie-Laure Garnier, soprano, France
Aida Gimeno Garcia, soprano, Spain
Jonah Hoskins, tenor, USA
Lilia Istratii, mezzo-soprano, Moldova
Victoria Karkacheva, mezzo-soprano, Russia
Evgeniya Khomutova, mezzo-soprano, Russia
Hyoyoung Kim, soprano, South Korea
Seonwoo Lee, soprano, South Korea
Chelsea Lehnea, soprano, USA
Josh Lovell, tenor, Canada
Valery Makarov, tenor, Russia
Keymon Murrah, countertenor, USA
Edward Nelson, baritone, USA
Jusung Park, bass-baritone, South Korea
Emily Pogorelc, soprano, USA
Alexandra Razskazoff, soprano, USA
Ricardo José Rivera, baritone, USA
Ekaterina Sannikova, soprano, Russia
Ivan Sapunov, baritone, Russia
Valeriia Savinskaia, soprano, Russia
Aytaj Shikhalizada, mezzo-soprano, Azerbaijan
Claudia Urru, soprano, Italy
Joshua Wheeker, tenor, USA
I heard soprano Emily Pogorelc as Cunegonde in Bernstein’s “Candide” with the Washington (D.C.) National Opera at the Kennedy Center, and thought she was quite sensational.
many from russia (8)? Well there also also many from the US (7) and many from other countries
Not one from the UK. Says it all about the “world beating” conservatories there. Really think the whole way singers are trained in the UK should be looked at..
Maybe they are trained to be singers with careers, rather than just competition winners whose star then gradually / quickly fades?
Oh yes! Operalia winners quickly fade. I could remember some winners who became losers, like Lise Davidsen, Sonia Yoncheva, Roth-Costanzo, Angel Blue, Lisete Oropesa, Pretty Yende, Rosa Feola, Susanna Phillips, Joseph Calleja, Erwin Schrott, Joyce Di Donatto, Jose Cura, Ninna Stemme, Kwangchul Youn. They really faded very quickly …
Don’t forget Emily d’Angelo.
Well…. almost all of the singers you mentioned are actually B or C category singers – defintely not top singers. They won’t even be remembered as great singers.
The fact that they are having a big career is only due to the mafia from this contest’s jury – not one single opera singer, but only opera intendants/agents, who do business between themselves… I wonder if the jury will still include the same people, at least Marta (what recommends her, except being Domingo’s long-time, lifelong cheated wife??) will be there for sure :-))))
Cheers!
And don’t forget Rolando Villazon….
Another possibility would be that they had to apply before travel rules were relaxed, and were unable/unwilling to plan without guarantees on how travel would pan out.
It is more precise to say “world beating, notation decolonizing”. And you get more explanatory power.
Yes, Axelle Fanyo and Marie-Laure Garnier.
Ivan Ayon-Rivas alrady has an international career. He has sung Rodolfo at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, il duca at Rome (in the theatre and in the new Michieletto production at Circo Massimo last summer). He has recently sung Faust at La Fenice with critical acclaim and he is singing at alla Scala Macbeth first night opposite Anna Netrebko (not Macduff tho, only Malcolm)
Maybe Operalia is becoming like the Olympics: Japan aside, most liberal democracies don’t want anything to do with the games, and they’re forced to set up shop in dictatorships and rogue states. Nobody on the list rings a bell to me.