The International Singing Competition for Young Opera Singers
Final Rounds: June 14 through June 21, 2025 at Bern (Switzerland)
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.
5 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.
54 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.
Singers in the Final Rounds after 11 out of 55 Qualifications
Sophia Hunt
Soprano
Yaara Attias
Soprano
Aoxue Zhu
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt
Felicity Tomkins
Soprano
Huigang Liu
Baritone / Bass
Heta Sammalisto
Soprano
Haewon Lee
Baritone / Bass
Suhyeon Shin
Soprano
Mia Mandineau
Soprano
Johannes Pessi
Baritone / Bass
Cory McGee
Baritone / Bass
Nicoletta Briguglio
Soprano
Camila Montefusco
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt
Winners 2024
JING YI YU
Soprano
Hans Gabor Prize
Etīna Saulīte
Soprano
- Jane Carty Memorial Prize
Awarded Engagements:
Dutch National Opera
Dzintari Concert Hall
Janice Van Rooy
Soprano
- Awarded Engagement:
Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Nicole Chirka
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt
- Awarded Engagement:
Bühnen Bern
Andrew Hyunjung Kim
Tenor
- Awarded Engagement:
Theater Bonn
Adrian Janus
Baritone / Bass
- Awarded Engagement:
Dzintari Concert Hall
Michael Appiah Kubi Mensah
Baritone / Bass
- Awarded Engagement:
The Metropolitan Opera - Lindemann Young Artist Development Program & Laffont Competition
Thando Zwane
Baritone / Bass
- Audience Prize
- Awarded Engagement:
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
Teona Todua
Soprano
- Awarded Engagement:
Deutsche Oper Berlin