The International Singing Competition for Young Opera Singers
Final Rounds: June 14 through June 21, 2025 at Bern (Switzerland)
Current Singers in the Competition

Yaara Attias
Soprano

Yasmin Forastiero
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Annabel Soode
Soprano

Mariana Poltorak
Soprano

Daniel Kfelir
Baritone / Bass

Malinda Wagstaff
Soprano

Kathryn Henry
Soprano

Gosh Sargsyan
Baritone / Bass

Maria Kosovitsa
Soprano

Gan Lin
Baritone / Bass

Sophia Hunt
Soprano

Ani Aghajanyan
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

YOUNJI YI
Soprano

Jaewoung Lee
Baritone / Bass

Mateusz Ługowski
Baritone / Bass

Julie Sekinger
Soprano

Maria Vasilevskaya
Soprano

Aoxue Zhu
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Kevin Godinez
Baritone / Bass

Junoh Lee
Baritone / Bass

Samuel Harris
Tenor

Sydney Baedke
Soprano

Marie-Juliette Ghazarian
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

SoJin Yang
Baritone / Bass

Volodymyr Morozov
Baritone / Bass

Cory McGee
Baritone / Bass

Louise Guenter
Soprano

Yue Yin
Baritone / Bass

Felicity Tomkins
Soprano

Juhyeon Kim
Baritone / Bass

Valentina Pravdina
Soprano

Hyejin Kim
Soprano

Rosamond Thomas
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Mark Kurmanbayev
Baritone / Bass

Yejy Nam
Soprano

George Gamal Mohareb
Baritone / Bass

Florentine Schumacher
Soprano

Seolbin Oh
Soprano

Indyana Schneider
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Laura Avila
Soprano

Mihailo Slavnić
Tenor

Patricia Žudetić
Soprano

JINGYI YU
Soprano

Romi Zelig
Soprano

SungUk Park
Baritone / Bass

Geon Kim
Baritone / Bass

Wonje Song
Baritone / Bass

Teresa Sales Rebordão
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Adrian Domarecki
Tenor

Diana Hurjă
Soprano

Ivan Lyvch
Baritone / Bass

Elisabeth Eunsoo Lee
Soprano

Yerang Park
Soprano

Esther Tonea
Soprano

Cecilia Lund Tomter
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Ryota Higuchi
Baritone / Bass

SiQi Liu
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Johannes Pessi
Baritone / Bass

Evelina Smolina
Soprano

Aleksandra Zotova
Soprano

Ju-Hyeok Lee
Tenor

Sophie Kidwell
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Katariina Holma
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Haewon Lee
Baritone / Bass

Tatev Baroyan
Soprano

Sophie Bellamy
Soprano

Petra Radulovic
Soprano

Molly Dzangare
Soprano

Camila Montefusco
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Aleksander Løe Myrling
Baritone / Bass

Tessa Fackelmann
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Ben Reisinger
Tenor

Andrés Sánchez Joglar
Tenor

Changdai Park
Baritone / Bass

Thomas Kinch
Tenor

Valeriia Gorbunova
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Anastasiya Taratorkina
Soprano

James Young
Baritone / Bass

Binny-Supin Yang
Soprano

Kitija Mināte
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Christin Stanowsky
Soprano

Meredith Wohlgemuth
Soprano

Daria Akulova
Soprano

Alma Ruoqi Sun
Soprano

Lonwabo Mose
Baritone / Bass

Anna Erokhina
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Vartan Gabrielian
Baritone / Bass

Heesung Kwon
Tenor

Jongyoung Kim
Tenor

Magdalena Kuźma
Soprano

Hyun-Woo Roh
Baritone / Bass
Why Participate?
773 Singers
The Belvedere Competition is one of the largest competitions for young opera singers in the world. 773 singers participated in 2024. Become part of the global singing elite and start your international opera career!
44% Engagement Ratio
4 engagements were awarded by the Opera Jury in 2024 to the 9 finalists. This makes a commitment rate of 44.4%.
Each year, the jury also regularly awards engagements to participants in the first rounds and semi-finals. You can find all the engagements awarded last year under ‘Winners 2024’.
19 Jury Members
The Opera Jury in the final rounds is composed exclusively with opera and casting directors of the most prestigious opera houses, who award additional engagements to the participants. The international Media Jury in the final rounds awards the additional Media Prize.
14 Professional Observers
Numerous singers’ agents and representatives – 28 in 2024 – of international opera and concert houses visit the final rounds as observers. They have made the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition into a veritable “Wall Street of Voices”. It’s your “springboard” to a career in opera.
52 Qualification Cities
The international qualifying rounds are held each year on all continents and gives young, highly talented opera singers the best access to the professional opera world.
43 Years of Experience
The Belvedere Singing Competition started in 1982, making it one of the renowned and best networked singing competition in the world.
Winners 2024

Michael Appiah Kubi Mensah
Baritone / Bass
Awarded Engagement:
The Metropolitan Opera - Lindemann Young Artist Development Program & Laffont Competition

Janice Van Rooy
Soprano
Awarded Engagement:
Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Teona Todua
Soprano
Awarded Engagement:
Deutsche Oper Berlin

Thando Zwane
Baritone / Bass
Audience Prize
Awarded Engagement:
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden


Nicole Chirka
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt
Awarded Engagement:
Bühnen Bern


Adrian Janus
Baritone / Bass
Awarded Engagement:
Dzintari Concert Hall



Andrew Hyunjung Kim
Tenor
Awarded Engagement:
Theater Bonn

JING YI YU
Soprano
Hans Gabor Prize

Etīna Saulīte
Soprano
Jane Carty Memorial Prize
Awarded Engagements:
Dutch National Opera
Dzintari Concert Hall