Klaudia Taev Competition
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.[1]
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, Edda Moser, Dolora Zajick, Yevgeny Nesterenko, Teresa Żylis-Gara, Ileana Cotrubas, Karan Armstrong, Luana DeVol, Cynthia Makris, Sergei Leiferkus and Irina Arkhipova have been the jury members of the Klaudia Taev Competition.
Prize winners[]
| No. | Year | 1st Prize | 2nd Prize | 3rd Prize | Other finalists |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1996 | Kristina Vähi (soprano, Estonia) | (soprano, Finland) | Monika Sutt (soprano, Estonia) | |
| 2. | 2001 | (soprano, Russia) | not awarded | (tenor, Lithuania) (soprano, Russia) Merle Silmato (mezzo-soprano, Estonia) |
András Muskát (tenor, Hungary) Yulia Semenova (soprano, Estonia) |
| 3. | 2003 | (baritone, Lithuania) | Tatjana Romanova (soprano, Estonia) (soprano, Russia) |
Eleonore Marguerre (soprano, Germany) | Nurlan Bekmukhambetov (tenor, Kazakhstan) Igor Bogaert (bariton, The Netherlands) |
| 4. | 2005 | not awarded | Anzhelina Shvachka (mezzo-soprano, Ukraine) Zhu Huiling (mezzo-soprano, China) |
(soprano, Poland) | Julia Markova (mezzo-soprano, Russia) Angelika Mikk (soprano, Estonia) Olga Senderskaya (soprano, Russia) |
| 5. | 2007 | (tenor, South-Korea) | Veronika Dzhioeva (soprano, Russia) | Ilya Silchukov (baritone, Belarus) Oliver Kuusik (tenor, Estonia) |
Oksana Volkova (mezzo-soprano, Belarus) Nikolay Shamov (baritone, Russia) |
| 6. | 2009 | not awarded | (bass, Belarus) | Asmik Grigorian (soprano, Lithuania) (soprano, Finland) Maria Veretenina (soprano, Estonia) |
Tadas Girininkas (bass, Lithuania), Alfiya Karimova (soprano, Russia) |
| 7. | 2011 | not awarded | (baritone, Belarus) | [Volkmane] (soprano, Latvia) | Tatiana Ganina (soprano, Ukraine) Pirjo Jonas [Püvi] (soprano, Estonia) Nicola Proksch (soprano, Austria) Iurii Samoilov (baritone, Ukraine) |
| 8. | 2013 | Jomantė Šležaitė (soprano, Lithuania) | (soprano, Russia) | (baritone, United States of America) | Jin Hee Lee (soprano, South-Korea) Olga Heikkilä (soprano, Finland) Ksenia Kuchukova (soprano, Estonia) |
| 9. | 2015 | (tenor, South-Korea) | (soprano, Poland) | (tenor, Russia) (baritone, Latvia) |
Elena Brazhnyk (soprano, Ukraine) Margrethe Fredheim (soprano, Norway) |
| 10. | 2017 | (mezzo-soprano, United States of America) | (bass, Ukraine) | (soprano, Hungary) | Margarita Levchuk (soprano, Belarus) Modestas Sedlevičius (baritone, Lithuania) Laura Teivāne (soprano, Latvia) |
| 11. | 2019 | not awarded | (bass, Armenia) (soprano, Ukraine) |
(soprano, Lithuania) (bass-baritone, Finland) |
Marija Arutiunova (soprano, Lithuania) Vladislav Tlushch (bass, Ukraine) |
| 12. | 2021 | (mezzo-soprano, Poland) | (baritone, South-Korea) | (mezzo-soprano, Estonia) (bass-baritone, Ukraine) |
Kamila Dutkowska (soprano, Poland) Yuliia Zasimova (soprano, Ukraine) |
Opera productions[]
| No. | Year | Production | The role offers for the laureates / finalists | The role offers for laureates / finalists of previous years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 2003 | Rigoletto (Verdi) | (Gilda) | |
| 2. | 2005 | The Demon (Rubinstein) | (Demon) | Merle Silmato (Tamara's Nurse) |
| 3. | 2007 | Carmen (Bizet) | Anzhelina Shvachka (Carmen), (Carmen) | Tatiana Romanova (Micaëla), (Escamillo) |
| 4. | 2009 | Thaïs (Massenet) | Veronika Dzhioeva (Thaïs), Ilya Silchukov (Athanaël), Oliver Kuusik (Nicias) | |
| 5. | 2011 | Attila (Verdi) | (Attila) | |
| 6. | 2013 | The Tsar's Bride (Rimsky-Korsakov) | (Gryaznoy), (Marfa) | Anzhelina Shvachka (Lyubasha) |
| 7. | 2015 | Aida (Verdi) | Jomantė Šležaitė (Aida) | Anzhelina Shvachka (Amneris) |
| 8. | 2017 | La traviata (Verdi) | (Alfredo) | (Violetta), Ilya Silchukov (Germont) |
| 9. | 2019 | The Capulets and the Montagues (Bellini) | (Romeo), Margarita Levchuk (Giulietta) | (Tebaldo) |
| 10. | 2021 | Il turco in Italia (Rossini) | (Selim), (Fiorilla), (Zaida), (Prosdocimo) | (Don Geronio), (Don Narciso) |
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