THE WORLD’S OP­ERA COM­PET­I­TION HOS­TED BY THE LOS ANGELES OP­ERA

Op­er­alia, Plácido Domin­go's com­pet­i­tion, re­turns to the Los Angeles Op­era for the third time! Watch the fi­nal round of the com­pet­i­tion, with 10 fi­nal­ists over a thou­sand can­did­ates, live on medici.tv – and be the first to dis­cov­er to­mor­row's stars!

Foun­ded in 1993 by Plácido Domin­go, Op­er­alia is an in­ter­na­tion­al singing com­pet­i­tion which aims at re­veal­ing the most prom­ising tal­ents and per­son­al­it­ies in the op­er­at­ic world. Among the sing­ers re­war­ded by Op­er­alia, we can quote Ludovic Tez­i­er, Ro­lan­do Villazón, Stéphane De­gout, Inva Mula, Nina Stemme, José Cura, John Os­born, Susanna Philips, among oth­ers.

Every year, the com­pet­i­tion sets in a dif­fer­ent op­era house. Fol­low­ing Par­is, Mex­ico, Mad­rid, Tokyo, Mil­an, Mo­scow, Beijing and Ver­ona, Op­er­alia is hos­ted by the Los Angeles Op­era for the third time!

Op­er­alia's goal is clear: high­light the young tal­ents and help them in their pro­fes­sion­al ca­reer. Plácido Domin­go: "Tal­ent alone is not enough; it is also es­sen­tial for young sing­ers to come to the at­ten­tion of those im­pres­ari­os, man­agers, cast­ing dir­ect­ors, con­duct­ors and stage dir­ect­ors who can fur­ther their pro­fes­sion­al ca­reers. My pur­pose in Op­er­alia is to help identi­fy not only the best voices, but also to dis­cov­er those sing­ers whose per­son­al­it­ies, char­ac­ters and powers of in­ter­pret­a­tion show that they have the po­ten­tial to be­come com­plete artists. In­di­vidu­als such as these be­come to­mor­row's stars. This is why the jury is not ex­clus­ively made up of great sing­ers but also in­cludes gen­er­al man­agers, stage dir­ect­ors and cast­ing dir­ect­ors".

Mario Chang, tenor (Guatemala)
Anaïs Constans, soprano (France)
Carol Garcia, mezzo-soprano (Spain)
Joshua Guerrero, tenor (USA/Mexico)
John Holiday, countertenor (USA)
Alisa Kolosova, mezzo-soprano (Russia)
Abdellah Lasri, tenor (Morocco)
Yi Li, tenor (China)
Andrey Nemzer, countertenor (Russia)
Christina Poulitsi, soprano (Greece)
Mariangela Sicilia, soprano (Italy)
Rachel Willis-Sørensen, soprano (USA)
Amanda Woodbury, soprano (USA)

LA Opera Orchestra
Plácido Domingo, conductor

Winners of the 2014 Operalia Competition:

FEMALE
1st Prize – Rachel Willis-Sørensen, soprano
2nd Prize – Amanda Woodbury, soprano
3rd Prize – Anaïs Constans, soprano and Mariangela Sicilia, soprano

MALE
1st Prize – Mario Chang, tenor
2nd Prize – Joshua Guerrero, tenor
3rd Prize – John Holiday, countertenor and Andrey Nemzer, countertenor

AUDIENCE'S PRIZES
Amanda Woodbury, soprano
Mario Chang, tenor

ZARZUELA PRIZES
Mario Chang, tenor
Rachel Willis-Sørensen, soprano

BIRGIT NILSSON PRIZES
Rachel Willis-Sørensen, soprano

THE CULTURARTE DE PUERTO RICO PRIZE
Joshua Guerrero, tenor