Program
REPERTOIRE
For the competition participants prepare 7 arias of the main opera characters, all arias are performed in original language
I and II ROUNDS
In the I and the II ROUNDS the participants choose from the recommended composers list:
Daniel Auber • Béla Bartók • Ludwig van Beethoven • Vincenzo Bellini • Alban Berg • Georges Bizet • Hector Berlioz
• Leonard Bernstein • Arrigo Boito • Alexander Borodin • Benjamin Britten • Alfredo Catalani • Marc-Antoine Charpentier • Luigi Cherubini • Francesco Cilea • Domenico Cimarosa • Gaetano Donizetti • Léo Delibes • Balys Dvarionas•Antonín Dvořák
• Friedrich von Flotow • George Gershwin • Umberto Giordano • Mikhail Glinka • Christoph Willibald Gluck • Charles Gounod • George Frideric Händel • Fromental Halévy • Leoš Janáček • Vytautas Klova • Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Bronius Kutavičius • Ruggero Leoncavallo • Pietro Mascagni
• Jules Massenet • Saverio Mercadante • Gian Carlo Menotti • Giacomo Meyerbeer • Stanisław Moniuszko
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Modest Mussorgsky • Otto Nicolai • Jacques Offenbach • Amilcare Ponchielli • Francis Poulenc • Giacomo Puccini • Henry Purcell • Sergei Rachmaninov • Maurice Ravel • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov • Gioachino Rossini • Camille Saint-Saëns • Bedřich Smetana • Richard Strauss • Igor Stravinsky • Ambroise Thomas • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • Giuseppe Verdi • Richard Wagner • Carl Maria von Weber • Riccardo Zandonai
In the I ROUND it is obligatory to perform three arias. Two arias have to be by composers from different countries and in original language.
In the II ROUND it is obligatory to perform two arias of your own choice.
FINAL
Each participant must prepare 2 arias for the final selecting them from the list below:
1. Bellini V. I Capuleti e I Montecchi
2. Bellini V. Norma
3. Bizet G. Carmen
4. Tchaikovsky P. Eugene Onegin
5. Tchaikovsky P. The Queen of Spades
6. Donizetti G. Don Pasquale
7. Donizetti G. L'elisir d'amore
8. Donizetti G. Lucia di Lammermoor
9. Gounod Ch. Faust
10. Gluck Ch. Orfeo ed Euridice
11. Leoncavallo R. Pagliacci
12. Massenet J. Manon
13. Massenet J. Werther
14. Mozart W.A. Don Giovanni
15. Mozart W.A. Le nozze di Figaro
16. Offenbach J. Les contes d'Hoffmann
17. Ponchielli A. La Gioconda
18. Ponchielli A. I Lituani
19. Puccini G. Gianni Schicchi
20. Puccini G. La Boheme
21. Puccini G. Madama Butterfly
22. Puccini G. Tosca
23. Puccini G. Turandot
24. Rossini G. Il barbiere di Siviglia
25. Strauss J. Die Fledermaus/ The Bat
26. Strauss J. Wiener Blut
27. Verdi G. Aida
28. Verdi G. Don Carlos
29. Verdi G. Ernani
30. Verdi G. Il trovatore
31. Verdi G. La forza del destino
32. Verdi G. La traviata
33. Verdi G. Macbeth
34. Verdi G. Nabucco
35. Verdi G. Otello
36. Verdi G. Rigoletto
37. Verdi G. Un ballo in maschera
38. Wagner R. Der fliegende Holländer
39. Wagner R. Die Walküre
40. Wagner R. Lohengrin
41. Wagner R. Tannhäuser
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All the program must be performed in the original language, by heart (by memory), in original tonalities, all arias are performed with their original recitatives and cabalettas.
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During the ONLINE registration each participant must write in what sequence and which arias will be performed in each round. Arias must not be performed more than once.