A Network for Success

Dominique Meyer

Chairman of the Jury, Director at Milan's La Scala

Brian Dickie

Former General Director of the Chicago Opera Theater

Juan Francisco Gatell

Tenor

Samuel Gelber

Director of Artistic Planning & Operations of the Washington National Opera

Sophie Joyce

Casting Director for the Opéra national de Paris

Sophie de Lint

Director of the Dutch National Opera

Bernd Loebe

General Director of the Opera Frankfurt

Ricarda Merbeth

Kammersängerin | Soprano

Christoph Seuferle

Opera director Deutsche Oper Berlin

Elisabeth Sobotka

Designated General Director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

Evamaria Wieser

Artistic Director of the Salzburg Festival and European Casting Consultant Lyric Opera Chicago

Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra

Orchester

Jonathan Darlington

Conductor

Holger Noltze

Host

Raffaele Cortesi

Pianist

Alfredo Abbati

Pianist

Susanna Stranders

Pianist

Edward Liddall

Pianist

John Allison

Coach

Simone Dollmann

PR and Marketing Manager and Coach

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Chorus Rehearsal Room

Dutch National Opera & Ballet, The Atrium

National Opera Center, Marc Scorca Hall

University of Cape Town, Baxter Hall

MusikTheater an der Wien, Kammeroper

Aram Khachaturian Museum, Music Concert Hall

Zurich Opera House, Rehearsal Stage Escher Wyss

Opéra national de Paris, Amphithéâtre de l'Opéra Bastille

Teatr Wielki, Polish National Opera

Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Orchestra Rehearsal Room

Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding in the Prinzregententheater

Oper Frankfurt, Orchestra Rehearsal Room

Teatro alla Scala

The final concert in full length

For those who missed the final concert or just want to enjoy it again in full length, check out our Neue Stimmen YouTube playlist! There you can also find all concert arias individually. So if you want to relive Dumitru Mitu's "E lucevan le stelle" or Marvic Monreal's "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix", or maybe one of the winning arias (Carles Pachon's "Largo al factotum" perhaps?!): This way...

Our winners 2022

These are our winners! Francesca Pia Vitale from Italy, who also won the audience award, and Carles Pachon from Spain are the winners of Neue Stimmen 2022.
Second place went to Eugénie Joneau and Sakhiwe Mkosana, and third place went to Yewon Han and Dumitru Mitu. The Brian Dickie Young Talent Award was presented again this year, and went to the young South Korean Taehan Kim. The jury also awarded two "Talent Development Prizes" for the first time. The tenor Zachary Rioux from Canada and the soprano Parchiyachart Sitthidamrongkarn from Thailand can be pleased about it. This prize is sponsored by the Mascarade Opera Studio and the Fondazione Mascarade in Florence. The prize includes a stay of up to three weeks in Florence with the opportunity to join the opera studio there on a permanent basis.

Our Finalists

11 singers have made it to the finals concert of this year's competition. We are very excited! Congrats to Marcela Rahal, Eugénie Joneau, Sakhiwe Mkosana, Francesca Pia Vitale, Alma Neuhaus, Lilit Davtyan, Dumitru Mitu, Yewon Han, Marvic Monreal, Carles Pachon (left to right) and Seungwoo Simon Yang (missing on the photo).
The final concert will take place on June 30 - the link to the livestream can be found here on the website.

Meet our singers 2022!

The wait is over. After an intensive selection phase, they have been chosen! We are very pleased to finally be able to present our final round participants 2022. In June, 36 singers will come to Gütersloh to prove their talent once again. On our overview you can find all singers with headshot, biography and some backstage information. In the course of April, we will introduce all singers in more detail on our social media channels. If you don't want to miss it, feel free to check us out on Instagram and Facebook.

NEW DATE Final Round 2022!

The final round of NEUE STIMMEN 2021/22 competition will be moved from March to June. This decision has not been taken lightly, but our responsibility for the welfare of all people involved must be our priority considering rising infection rates in Germany. The new date for the final round will be June 26-30, 2022, which will take place in a shortened format. Thus, the semifinal concert will be cancelled, the auditions as well as the final concert with orchestral accompaniment will remain as usual. We will provide timely information about ticket sales for the final concert as well as streaming of the concert here on the website and on our social media channels. An adjusted weekly overview of the event can be found on the “News Competition 2022” page.

HAPPY WORLD OPERA DAY!

World Opera Day is celebrated on October 25. On this day, opera houses along with artists, opera lovers and opera professionals appreciate and celebrate this art form. For this special occasion, we recorded a short video together with our NEUE STIMMEN community. You can find it on our social media channels - Instagram and Facebook. Check it out for news and insights about the ongoing competition.

Neue Stimmen alumni dinner in Frankfurt

Last week we had the kick-off of the Live Auditions in Frankfurt. This opportunity was used to have a small alumni meeting with our singers in Frankfurt the night before. With us were Ekin Su Paker, Marvic Monreal, Iurii Samoilov and Bianca Andrew. Jury member Brain Dickie also joined the little event. It was a great evening with lots of laughter and stories. After successful live auditions in Frankfurt, Paris and London will follow this week from the total of 12 pre-selection locations.

Congrats on round 2!

After an exciting application phase, in which all participants submitted two videos with their online application for the first time, we were finally thrilled to receive over 1400 applications.
Our jury now had time to review all the documents and videos and had to make the difficult decision of who to admit to the live auditions. The overall level was very high. All singers received an email at the beginning of August, for some of them with the long-awaited information: Next stop --> Live Audition!
The first one will be in Frankfurt on September 28th.

Application open till June 13

We know it has not been easy to record arias with live piano accompaniment during this time. In certain countries there have been renewed lockdowns due to the ongoing pandemic. We want to give singers in these places a chance to enter the competition and decided to postpone the deadline for applications until June 13.