Opera Singer Competition
We are waiting for you in beautiful Procida Island
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Awards over €20.000: cash scholarships, concerts, special prizes (bottom of the page) and the opportunity to debut in the Gala of the Mimas Music Festival from 19th to 22nd August 2025
The evaluation and announcement of the winners will be online.
We will announce the Top selections and then the Winners by 8th March 2025
Places are limited! Only the first 50 registrants will be accepted!
Your Program
Send us the performance where you feel comfortable
The program is free
You can send us separate links uploaded to one of these channels: Youtube, Tencent, Youku, Vimeo, Google drive
Don’t Forget
Registrations/Links made from 2024 are accepted
Entries are Limited
Deadline: 8th March 2025
please read all other rules at the bottom of the page
Winner Opera Singer Competition
Mimas Music Festival
Young
Ages 17-22
Program Maximum 10 min
First Prize
*Special Mimas Prize: € 3000
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Concert in the winners gala of Mimas Music Festival
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Auditions with Tartiere Artists Management
- Nomination for the prestigious award ‘Premio Internazionale Cartagine 2025’
- Concert in Leon – Spain
- Concert in Naples – Italy organized by NOMEA
- Official certificate of winners
- Direct access top selections Nomea Competition
- Direct access top selections Neapolitan Masters Competition
- Broadcast on Mimas Music Festival and NOMEA Social Channels
- Scholarship for OperaLab by Accademia Musicale Europea
Second Prize
- Official certificate of winners
- Direct access top selections Nomea Competition
- Direct access top selections Neapolitan Masters Competition
- Scholarship for OperaLab by Accademia Musicale Europea
- Artist Branding Workshop by Accademia Musicale Europea
Third prize
- Official certificate of winners
- Scholarship for OperaLab by Accademia Musicale Europea
- Artist Branding Workshop by Accademia Musicale Europea
4th-5th-6th prize
- Official certificate of winners and musical benefits
Top selections
- Honorable mention and musical benefits
Other participants
- Certificate of distinction and musical benefits
Virtuoso
Ages 23-33
Program Maximum 15 min
First Prize
*Special Mimas Prize: € 5000
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Scholarship of € 1000
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Concert in the winners gala of Mimas Music Festival
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Auditions with Tartiere Artists Management
- Nomination for the prestigious award ‘Premio Internazionale Cartagine 2025’
- Concert in Naples – Italy organized by NOMEA
- Audition for a concert as a soloist with the ‘Orchestra Sinfonica Brutia’ – Italy
- Official certificate of winners
- Direct access top selections Nomea Competition
- Direct access top selections Neapolitan Masters Competition
- Broadcast on Mimas Music Festival and NOMEA Social Channels
- Scholarship for OperaLab by Accademia Musicale Europea
- Artist Branding Workshop by Accademia Musicale Europea
Second Prize
- Concert in the winners gala of the Mimas Festival
- Audition with Tartiere Artists Management
- Official certificate of winners
- Broadcast on Mimas Music Festival and NOMEA Social Channels
- Direct access top selections Nomea Competition
- Direct access top selections Neapolitan Masters Competition
- Scholarship for OperaLab by Accademia Musicale Europea
- Artist Branding Workshop by Accademia Musicale Europea
Third prize
- Concert in the winners gala of the Mimas Festival
- Audition with Tartiere Artists Management
- Official certificate of winners
- Broadcast on Mimas Music Festival and NOMEA Social Channels
- Scholarship for OperaLab by Accademia Musicale Europea
- Artist Branding Workshop by Accademia Musicale Europea
4th-5th-6th prize
- Official certificate of winners and musical benefits
- Broadcast on Mimas Music Festival and NOMEA Social Channels
Top selections
- Honorable mention and musical benefits
Other participants
- Certificate of distinction and musical benefits
Meet the Jury
Romina
Casucci
ITALY
Opera Singer – Artistic Director of Mimas Festival
She in an international Opera Singer made her debut in main roles in Rigoletto, La Traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor,La Bohème etc. She toured in USA, Spain, Japan, France, China, Morocco, and Germany. She recorded for Brilliant Classic and Rubicon Records. Romina is the Artistic Director of many international singing competitions and teacher of ‘Operalab’ Higher Education Course.
Andriy
Yurkevych
UKRAINE
Music director of the State Opera in Prague
He is a conductor won a special prize at the National Turchak Competition in Kiev, has performed all over the world: Vienna Staatoper , Berlin State Opera, German Opera Berlin, Bavarian State Opera Munich, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Flemish Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro Municipal in Santiago (Chile), in San Francisco Opera, Greek National Opera etc.
He is a laureate of the International Opera Award (8th year “Opera Star”) – Gli Oscar della Lirica.
From 2020 He is the Music director of the State Opera in Prague
Carles
LAma
SPAIN
Director of KNS Classical
Steinway Artist and international concert pianist, co-founder and director of the label KNS Classica.
Artistic director of several cycles and festivals of music, he has also won a reputation for mentoring a wide number of young talents.
Li
Xiuying
CHINA
Opera Singer
She is a soprano singer, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Vocal and Opera Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The New York Times commented: ‘Li Xiuying was exquisitely delicate and her voice very expressive’; ‘Li Xiuying’s interpretation was convincing, and her voice was impressive.
She performed around the world, his interpretation of Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescu, remains imprinted
She has received The Stanley Tausend Award for Outstanding Performer and the Diva Award for Best Actress for her performances at New York Opera at Lincoln Centre in the USA. In 2008, she won the 60th Emmy Award for her opera Madama Butterfly, which was broadcast live from Lincoln Center on PBS.
Inès
Tartière
SPAIN
Artist Management
She is the founder of the prestigious Tartiere Artists Management, with the aim of supporting and advising artists and being able to offer theaters of the highest level, quickly becoming one of the most reliable agencies in the world.
Christian
Starinieri
ITALY
DM Artist Management
Winner of the AsLiCo competition debuts in various roles and opera houses by developing in-depth experience and knowledge through a broad repertoire.
His career evolves as an opera agent and with DM Artist Management becoming a point of reference for opera and theater singers internationally.
Elena
Rizzo
ITALY
Artistic Secretary of the Petruzzelli Foundation of Bari
She is the Artistic Secretary of the Petruzzelli Foundation of Bari.
He has worked at important traditional theaters and symphonic opera foundations in Italy and abroad and with
sung such as: Mariella Devia, Barbara Frittoli, Dimitra Theodossiou, Leo Nucci, Marcelo Alvarez, Elena Mosuc
and directors with Rafael Frubek de Burgos, Mstislav Rostropovich, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Lorin Maazel.
His greatest vocation is preparing for his debut of young talents.
Special Prizes
- KNS CLASSICAL PRIZE – Digital publishing and distribution
- Best Italian performer concert at Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Pietrarsa
- Best performance of a work of F.P.Tosti
- Best performance of a work of Baroque Composer
- Best performance of a work of Classical Composer
- Best performance of a work of Romantic Composer
- Best performance of a work of Contemporary Composer
- Best performance of Virtuoso Composition
- Best European Opera Singer
- Best African Opera Singer
- Best Asian Opera Singer
- Best North American Opera Singer
- Best South American Opera Singer
- Best Australian Opera Singer
* The Mimas Special Prize for each category is awarded only if the jury unanimously votes the highest possible score for the first prize.
*The performances will be listened to by the links or downloaded in video format by the organization
*The winners will be entitled to the prizes by participating in the Mimas Festival concerts dedicated to them
Join the Competition
You will only submit your performance once, so as not to create travel costs, the evaluation and announcement of the winners will be online.
Registrations/Links made from 2024 are accepted
