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.
6 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 29 out of 56 Qualifications

Maria Vasilevskaya
Soprano

SungUk Park
Baritone / Bass

Huigang Liu
Baritone / Bass

Aoxue Zhu
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Mihailo Slavnić
Tenor

Lonwabo Mose
Baritone / Bass

Haewon Lee
Baritone / Bass

Laura Avila
Soprano

Geon Kim
Baritone / Bass

Yaara Attias
Soprano

Suhyeon Shin
Soprano

Anastasiya Taratorkina
Soprano

Mark Kurmanbayev
Baritone / Bass

Julie Sekinger
Soprano

Minseok David Kang
Baritone / Bass

Jaewoung Lee
Baritone / Bass

Nicoletta Briguglio
Soprano

Sophia Hunt
Soprano

Mia Mandineau
Soprano

Heta Sammalisto
Soprano

Yejy Nam
Soprano

Heesung Kwon
Tenor

Anna Shcherbakova
Soprano

Ju-Hyeok Lee
Tenor

Cory McGee
Baritone / Bass

Gosh Sargsyan
Baritone / Bass

Keith Klein
Baritone / Bass

Valeriia Gorbunova
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Molly Dzangare
Soprano

Haneul Jo
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

Camila Montefusco
Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

yue yin
Baritone / Bass

Tamara Nishri
Soprano

Johannes Pessi
Baritone / Bass

Felicity Tomkins
Soprano

Wonje Song
Baritone / Bass
Winners 2024



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

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

Teona Todua
Soprano
Awarded Engagement:
Deutsche Oper Berlin


Andrew Hyunjung Kim
Tenor
Awarded Engagement:
Theater Bonn

JING YI YU
Soprano
Hans Gabor Prize

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

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


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