Concurso Tenor Viñas – Winners' Concert

Founded in 1963 by Jacint Vilardell to commemorate the Catalan tenor Francisco Viñas, the Competition has become one of the major contests in the Opera, Oratorio and Lied world, in which young singers from all over the world take part every year. 

To provide an opportunity for singers to take part in other countries, the Gran Teatre del Liceu has an agreement with the opera houses in Madrid, Paris, London, Berlin, Milan, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Beijing for preliminary rounds to be staged in these cities. Streamed live from the Gran Teatre del Liceu for the first time on OperaVision, the Competition is in two parts over the weekend of 24/26 January. The Audition with piano for all finalists is on Friday 24 January, at the end of which the winners are announced. The Final concert is on Sunday 26 at which the winners perform accompanied by the Gran Teatre del Liceu Symphony Orchestra.

FINALISTS

Vlada Koieva (Ukraine), soprano
Mihai Damian (Romania), baritone
Liam James Karai (United Kingdom), bass-baritone
Tatev Baroyan (Armenia), soprano
Isobel Anthony (United States), soprano
Sara Cortolezzis (Italy), soprano
Luke Norvell (United States), tenor
Gheorghe Severin (Romania), bass-baritone
Michael Butler (United States), tenor
Robert Lewis (United Kingdom), tenor
Taejun Jeong (South Korea), baritone
Matteo Torcaso (Italy), baritone
Maria Vasilevskaya (United States), soprano
Edith Grossman (United States), mezzo-soprano
Egor Zhuravskii (Russia), tenor
Matteo Mancini (Italy), baritone
Gloria Jieun Choi (South Korea), soprano

PROGRAMME

Overture to Le nozze di Figaro - Mozart

Michael Butler (United States), tenor
‘Tombe degli avi miei’ from Lucia di Lammermoor - Donizetti
‘Una furtiva lagrima’ from L'elisir d'amore - Donizetti

Luke Norvell (United States), tenor
‘Ah, la paterna mano’ from Macbeth - Verdi
‘Lamento di Federico’ from L'arlesiana - Cilea

Egor Zhuravskii (Russia), tenor
‘Un'aura amorosa’ from Così fan tutte - Mozart
‘Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön’ from Die Zauberflöte - Mozart

Marcos Madrigal, Piano
‘In the Silence of the Secret Night’ - Rachmaninoff
‘Spring Waters’ - Rachmaninoff

Robert Lewis (United Kingdom), tenor
‘Kuda, kuda’ from Eugene Onegin - Tchaikovsky
‘Ah, lève-toi soleil’ from Roméo et Juliette - Gounod

Mihai Damian (Romania), baritone
‘Io morrò’ from Don Carlo - Verdi
‘Eri tu’ from Un ballo in Maschera - Verdi

Gloria Jieun Choi (South Korea), soprano
‘Dich, teure Halle’ from Tannhäuser - Wagner
‘Tu che le vanità’ from Don Carlo - Verdi