The $25k first prize at the Reine Elisabeth vioce competition went last night to Taehan Kim, 22, a baritone from Korea.
Second, with $20k, was mezzo Jasmin White from Oregon, a member of the Vienna VolksOper studio.
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Taehan Kim is member of the Berlin State Opera Studio from 23/24 on.
I believe the prizes in Belgium are given in euros, not dollars.
First prize is indeed 25,000 euro, second prize is 20,000 euro.
Another Korean baritone, Gihoon Kim, won the last Cardiff Singer of the World competition singing Pierrot’s Tanzlied as well. Seems they have decided that Korngold is a crowd pleaser … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTfIfCJPmr0
Taehan Kim was very impressive, but his first prize still came as a suprise. He’s very young for such an honor, and it may well be a poisoned gift. In the portrait that was broadcast on Belgian tv before his performance, he said literally “I want to be a superstar” – and he meant it. The Queen Elisabeth Competition takes much better care of guiding their finalists than they did a couple of decades ago, when winners all too often lacked wise management and destroyed their voice in no time – the great Aga Winska (winner in 1988) comes to mind. So let’s hope he gets the guidance he needs to grow slowly and build up his superstar status… Still, he’s a great singer and the Belgian bass Werner Van Mechelen confessed on tv having been moved to tears by his performance.
The second prize for Jasmin White was an even bigger surprise. They (Jasmin identifies as binary and uses they / them) came out of the semifinals as an almost inevitable winner. Their stage presence, their voice, their command of repertoire was supreme. And then Jasmin botched the finale (and left the stage almost in tears). Nobody expected them to be even in the top 6. So it seems that the first round and semifinals weighed heavily in the jury’s verdict.
Jasmin identifies as binary and uses they / them)
Who cares?
For those of us over 29 years old: what does “identifies as binary” mean in standard English? And we English-speakers all use “they/them” to indicate plurals. “He opened the door”. “They opened the door”. Etc.
It’s supposed to be “non-binary”. The OP made a mistake with an already mistaken idea that people can be out of the binary form of gender. It’s linguistically incorrect, but also biological, sociological and historically incorrect. To put in a generations context, it’s like the asbestos of generation X, or margerine for the millennials, just something to remember by in 20 years and feel extreme shame.
I remember another jazz musician describing Stan Getz as a nice bunch of guys. But today they probably mean something else, more political and sinister.
Hello. As a other korean musician, i would like to clarify this mistranslation ‚superstar‘ stuffs. He didn‘t said that he wanna be a superstar, but just ‚I want to sing many operas in great opera houses all over the world‘, and somehow it‘s getting spread with the word ‚superstar‘. Idk where it started:0
I have no idea what you’re talking about. I saw the clip, you clearly didn’t, he spoke English, and he literally said “I want to be a superstar”.
Korngold is back in fashion, and so it appears is Viennese nostalgia. This performance of Pierrot’s number is not far off from the recording made by the baritone Hans Duhan in 1922.
Why not put the names in the headline, rather than nationalities? It’s tasteless..
The Asians do it again!! Great news. South Korea is a country which punches above its weight on most metrics, even if their polity is messy.
I’ve never been as excited about a singer as I am about Jasmin White. Voice, intelligence, knowledge, personality all established and unique.