Klaudia Taev Competition
Introduction 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. 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, Vesselina Kasarova, Karan Armstrong, Luana DeVol, Cynthia Makris, Sergei Leiferkus and Irina Arkhipova have been the jury members of the Klaudia Taev Competition.
Prize winners  No.Year1st Prize2nd Prize3rd PrizeOther finalists 1.1996Kristina Vähi (soprano, Estonia) Taina Hirvonen (soprano, Finland)Monika Sutt (soprano, Estonia) 2.2001Anna Samuil (soprano, Russia) not awardedGediminas Tiškevičius (tenor, Lithuania) Klavdia Sorokina (soprano, Russia)Merle Silmato (mezzo-soprano, Estonia)András Muskát (tenor, Hungary)Yulia Semenova (soprano, Estonia) 3.2003Laimonas Pautienius (baritone, Lithuania)Tatjana Romanova (soprano, Estonia)Elena Semyonova (soprano, Russia)Eleonore Marguerre (soprano, Germany)Nurlan Bekmukhambetov (tenor, Kazakhstan)Igor Bogaert (bariton, The Netherlands) 4.2005not awardedAnzhelina Shvachka (mezzo-soprano, Ukraine)Zhu Huiling (mezzo-soprano, China)Ewa Biegas (soprano, Poland)Julia Markova (mezzo-soprano, Russia)Angelika Mikk (soprano, Estonia)Olga Senderskaya (soprano, Russia) 5.2007Ji-Min Park (tenor, South-Korea) Veronika Dzhioeva (soprano, Russia)Ilya Silchukov (baritone, Belarus)Oliver Kuusik (tenor, Estonia)Oksana Volkova (mezzo-soprano, Belarus)Nikolay Shamov (baritone, Russia) 6.2009not awardedAnatoli Sivko (bass, Belarus)Asmik Grigorian (soprano, Lithuania)Pauliina Linnosaari (soprano, Finland)Maria Veretenina (soprano, Estonia)Tadas Girininkas (bass, Lithuania), Alfiya Karimova (soprano, Russia) 7.2011not awardedAndrey Savchenko (baritone, Belarus)Elina Shimkus Volkmane (soprano, Latvia)Tatiana Ganina (soprano, Ukraine)Pirjo Jonas Püvi (soprano, Estonia)Nicola Proksch (soprano, Austria)Iurii Samoilov (baritone, Ukraine) 8.2013Jomantė Šležaitė (soprano, Lithuania)Anna Denisova (soprano, Russia)Leo Radoslavljevic (baritone, United States of America)Jin Hee Lee (soprano, South-Korea)Olga Heikkilä (soprano, Finland)Ksenia Kuchukova (soprano, Estonia) 9.2015Alex (Sunghyun) Kim (tenor, South-Korea)Ewa Tracz (soprano, Poland)Yury Rostotsky (tenor, Russia)Rihards Millers (baritone, Latvia)Elena Brazhnyk (soprano, Ukraine)Margrethe Fredheim (soprano, Norway) 10.2017Abigail Levis (mezzo-soprano, United States of America)Taras Berezhansky (bass, Ukraine)Eszter Zemlényi (soprano, Hungary)Margarita Levchuk (soprano, Belarus)Modestas Sedlevičius (baritone, Lithuania)Laura Teivāne (soprano, Latvia) 11.2019not awardedSargis Bazhbeuk-Melikyan (bass, Armenia)Hanna Tverdova (soprano, Ukraine)Kamilė Balabonaitė (soprano, Lithuania)Samuli Taskinen (bass-baritone, Finland)Marija Arutiunova (soprano, Lithuania)Vladislav Tlushch (baritone, Ukraine) 12.2021Zuzanna Nalewajek (mezzo-soprano, Poland)Gyungmin Gwon (baritone, South-Korea)Kadi Jürgens (mezzo-soprano, Estonia)Serhii Moskalchuk (bass-baritone, Ukraine)Kamila Dutkowska (soprano, Poland)Yuliia Zasimova (soprano, Ukraine) 13.2023Gabrielė Bukinė (soprano, Lithuania)Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur (mezzo-soprano, France)Gagik Vardanyan (baritone, Armenia)Adrian Janus (baritone, Poland)Junoh Lee (bass-baritone, South-Korea)Tomi Punkeri (baritone, Finland)
Opera productions  No.YearProductionThe role offers for the laureates/finalists The role offers for laureates/finalists of previous years 1.2003Rigoletto (Verdi)Anna Samuil (Gilda) 2.2005The Demon (Rubinstein)Laimonas Pautienius (Demon)Merle Silmato (Tamara's Nurse) 3.2007Carmen (Bizet)Anzhelina Shvachka (Carmen)  Huiling Zhu (Carmen)Tatiana Romanova (Micaëla) Laimonas Pautienius (Escamillo) 4.2009Thaïs (Massenet)Veronika Dzhioeva (Thaïs) Ilya Silchukov (Athanaël) Oliver Kuusik (Nicias) 5.2011Attila (Verdi)Anatoli Sivko (Attila) 6.2013The Tsar's Bride (Rimsky-Korsakov)Andrey Savchenko (Gryaznoy) Elina Shimkus (Marfa)Anzhelina Shvachka (Lyubasha) 7.2015Aida (Verdi)Jomantė Šležaitė (Aida)Anzhelina Shvachka (Amneris) 8.2017La traviata (Verdi)Alex (Sunghyun) Kim (Alfredo)Anna Denisova (Violetta) Ilya Silchukov (Germont) 9.2019The Capulets and the Montagues (Bellini)Abigail Levis (Romeo) Margarita Levchuk (Giulietta)Yury Rostotsky (Tebaldo) 10.2021Il turco in Italia (Rossini)Sargis Bazhbeuk-Melikyan (Selim) Hanna Tverdova (Fiorilla) Kamilė Bontė (Zaida) Vladislav Tlushch (Prosdocimo)Taras Berezhansky (Don Geronio) Yury Rostotsky (Don Narciso) 11.2023Cendrillon (Massenet)Zuzanna Nalewajek (Cendrillon)Abi Levis (Le Prince Charmant) Jomantė Šležaitė (Madame de la Haltière) Eszter Zemlényi (La Fée) Laimonas Pautienius (Pandolfe)
References
External links * Klaudia Taev Competition