48th Edition (2011)

Awards

Female voices

1st Tamara Wilson (USA)
2nd Cristina Toledo (Spain)
3rd Elena Guseva (Russia)

Male voices

1st Mario Chang (Guatemala)
2nd Atalla Ayan (Brazil)
3rd ex aequo: Jootaek Kim (Korea), Roman Burdenko (Russia)

Special prizes

Prize for a tenor finalist: Mario Chang (Guatemala)
Best French Opera Performer: Cristina Toledo (Spain)
Best Russian Music Performer: Oksana Kramareva (Ukraine)
Best Zarzuela Performer: Atalla Ayan (Brazil)
Best Spanish Singer: Cristina Toledo
Best Catalan Singer: Anna Tobella
Associació de Liceístes 4rt. i 5è pis Prize: Anna Tobella (Spain)
Cia. Ópera São Paulo Prize: Atalla Ayan (Brazil)
Amics de l’Òpera de Sabadell Prize: Mario Chang (Guatemala)
El Convent Classical Music Festival Prize (Blanes): Cristina Toledo (Spain)
Agimus Prize (Catania Section): Elena Guseva (Russia)
Diputació de Barcelona Scholarship: Mercedes Gancedo (Argentina)
European Opera Centre Scholarship: Thomas Dear (France)
Accademia Chigiana Scholarship, Siena: Vladislav Lysak (Ukraine)
Dalton Baldwin Scholarship: Goeun Lee (Korea)
Accademia Renata Tebaldi – Mario del Monaco Scholarship (Pesaro): Tatiana Timchenko (Russia)
Académie de Musique de Sion Scholarship: Taisiya Ermolaeva (Russia)

Jury

President

Mr. Joan Matabosch (Spain). Artistic Director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

Members

Irwin Gage (USA). Pianist. Career in the main concert halls of the world. Recordings.

Mr. Eduard Giménez (Spain). Tenor. Operistic career in the main theatres of the world. Recordings.

Mr. Albin Hänseroth (Germany). Former Intendant of the Hamburgische Staatsoper, Hamburg. Former Artistic Director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

Mr. Jesus Iglesias Noriega (Spain). Assistant to the Artistic and Musical Director of the Teatro Real, Madrid.

Ms. Magda Olivero (Italy). Soprano. Operistic career in the main theatres of the world. Recordings.

Andrés Rodríguez (Chile). General Director of the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile.

Mr. Alard von Rhor (Germany). “Operndirektor” of the “Deutsche Oper”, Berlin.

Lenore Rosenberg (USA). Assistant to the Artistic Administrator of the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

Mr. José Manuel Serra Formigal (Portugal). Former Director of the Teatre Nacional "São Carlos", Lisbon.

Ms. Virginia Zenai (USA). Soprano. Operistic career in the main theatres of the world. Recordings.