The competition is open to opera singers of any nationality who fulfill the following requirements:
The application will only be considered complete once payment of the registration fee has been received and the documentation and other necessary information has been validated. Information and documentation required:
We have 30.000€ in prize money, concerts for prize-winners, travel refund for the finalists,among others.
Our Jury is at the highest level: Sergei Leiferkus (president), Aleksandar Nikolic, Anna Samuil, Erik Malmquist, Ivan van Kalmthout, Maria Stefyuk and Robert Köerner.
It will be a very exciting experience in Cascais -Portugal, besides the competition we are preparing Voice and Act Masterclasses and an amazing international professional network.
The Arias must be recorded in a video format (professional or simply with a phone), the jury must hear and see the competitors.
Prior to starting your performace you must present the Aria, the opera and the composer.
Accompanying your Aria by a musician or a recorded instrumental is ALLOWED.
We wish to give all participants equal opportunities, therefore we opt for the simplest recording without any sort of editing.
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Over the past three decades, primarily in London, Portugal and Amsterdam, Dr Jorge Balça
has developed a strong portfolio of work and a unique combination of skillsets – as a stage
director (of theatre, opera, and hybrid forms), a teacher and workshop leader, a presentation
skills, acting and creativity coach, and practice-based researcher. His work in all these
domains is distinguished by his commitment to and skill in making fantasy and invention
emerge from precise knowledge and training – and by his ability to inspire a similar alchemy
in his collaborators.
Classically trained as an actor and countertenor, he studied theatre directing in London and
Moscow, specialising in Shakespeare, techniques of adaptation, Meyerhold and commedia
dell’arte. Jorge also holds a PhD exploring the dramatic training of opera performers.
With a love for site-specific projects and collaborative forms, and an equal flair for comedy
and drama, his work is dramaturgically inventive, visually striking, and physically engaged.
He was the artistic director of Bloomsbury Opera and associate director of The Opera
Makers, both in London. In Portugal, he has recently directed L’Heure Espagnole and The
Turn of the Screw at Centro Cultural de Belém, and Don Giovanni and La Voix Humaine at
Festival de Ópera de Óbidos.
Jorge is committed to his work as a teacher, having taught at the Dutch National Opera
Academy, Morley College London, Universidade de Évora and other institutions. He
maintains an international coaching private practice and is the acting coach at the Neil
Semer Vocal Institute in Italy.
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