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FINAL ROUND IN GERMANY

Outline of the final round in Germany

Sponsors
Bertelsmann Stiftung
Media Partner
The German Broadcasting Company WDR
President
of "NEUE STIMMEN"
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Liz Mohn
(Vice President of the Executive Committee of the Board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung)
Chairman
of the jury
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Dominique Meyer
(Director of the Vienna State Opera)
Jury
  • Brian Dickie
    (Former General Director of the Chicago Opera Theater)
  • Sophie de Lint
    (Director Dutch National Opera)
  • Sophie Joyce
    (Director Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Metropolitan Opera New York City)
  • Bernd Loebe
    (General Director of the Opera Frankfurt)
  • Fortunato Ortombina
    (General manager and artistic director, Fondazione Teatro La Fenica di Venezia)
  • Elisabeth Sobotka
    (General Director of the Bregenz Festival)
  • Evamaria Wieser
    (Artistic director of Salzburg festival, European Casting Consultant Lyric Opera Chicago)
  • Alexander Neefr
    (General Director of the Opéra national de Paris)
Schedule

2 (Sat) – 10 (Sun) October, 2021

Guetersloh in Germany

System
of the selection

After a two months application phase including a newly installed video pre-selection process (e-casting), live auditions are held at selected locations worldwide. The best 40 to 45 performers qualify for the final round in Germany.
Winners celebrate their success at the prize-winners concert in Berlin.

Prizemoney

Female singers

  • 1st prize 15,000 Euros
  • 2nd prize 10,000 Euros
  • 3rd prize 5,000 Euros

Male singers

  • 1st prize 15,000 Euros
  • 2nd prize 10,000 Euros
  • 3rd prize 5,000 Euros

Peopleʼs Choice award: 500 Euros for sheet music

Audio & Video

  • ・Videos of audition performance/final round
  • ・CD of the competition
  • ・Broadcasting on TV and Radio
  • ・Livestreaming of the semi-final and the final concerts
  • ・YouTube video clips from the concert performance during the semi-final and the final concerts

Contacts, Concerts, Coaching & Support

  • ・Contact brokering to general directors of opera companies and festival directors
  • ・Contact brokering to agents
  • ・Performance at the Prize Winners Concert in Berlin 
  • ・Performance at NEUE STIMMEN concerts in Germany and abroad
  • ・Participation at NEUE STIMMEN master classes, workshops & career coaching seminars
  • ・A scholarship from the Liz Mohn Foundation for Culture and Music enabling the recipient to be involved at the international opera studio of the Berlin Staatsoper for two years