The Klaudia Taev Competition is a competition for young opera singers. It is the main event of the Pärnu Opera Music Festival
PromFest. The Competition has been named after a local legendary singing teacher
Klaudia Taev. The first Competition was held in the year 1996 and since 2001 it takes place biannually.
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The main prize of the competition is the proposal to sing the main opera role in opera production, which is selected at the request of the winner of the competition.
Among others Barbara Hendricks
Barbara Hendricks (born November 20, 1948) is an American lyric soprano and humanitarian. Born in Arkansas, Hendricks studied chemistry and mathematics at the University of Nebraska before becoming a singer. She gained acclaim for her operatic r ...
, Edda Moser, Dolora Zajick, Yevgeny Nesterenko, Teresa Żylis-Gara, Ileana Cotrubas, Vesselina Kasarova, Karan Armstrong, Luana DeVol, Cynthia Makris, Sergei Leiferkus and Irina Arkhipova have been the jury members of the Klaudia Taev Competition.
Prize winners
Opera productions
References
External links
Klaudia Taev Competition
Opera competitions
Opera in Estonia
Pärnu
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