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The main jury of the 13th Klaudia Taev Competition (2023):<\/strong>

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Vesselina Kasarova<\/strong> (Bulgaria) – Chairwoman of the Jury; mezzo-soprano
John Allison<\/strong> (UK) – Opera magazine, Chief Editor; musicologist
Michael Barobeck <\/strong>(Austria) \u2013 Graz Opera, Casting Manager
Tamas Bator <\/strong>(Hungary) \u2013 M\u00fcpa Budapest, Program Director; bass
Florin Estefan<\/strong> (Romania) – Cluj-Napoca Romanian National Opera, General Manager; bariton
Thomas Hermann<\/strong> (Germany) – Nationaltheater Mannheim, Director of the Opera Department
Mariusz Kwiecie\u0144<\/strong> (Poland) – Artistic Director of Wroc\u0142aw Opera; bariton
Constantine Orbelian<\/strong> (USA\/Armenia) – New York City Opera, Musical Director: conductor and pianist
Laimonas Pautienius<\/strong> (Lithuania) – the winner of the Klaudia Taev Competition in 2003; Kaunas State Musical Theatre, Soloist; baritone
Erki Pehk <\/strong>(Estonia) – Artistic Director of the Klaudia Taev Competition; Director and art director of the festival PromFest; conductor
Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Roels<\/strong><\/strong> (France) – Opera Grand Avignon, General Manager; stage director
Alain Surrans<\/strong> (France) – Angers Nantes Opera, General Manager
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The First-round Jury<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Ferenc Anger<\/strong> (Hungary) – Stage director
J\u0101nis Apeinis<\/strong> (Latvia) – Latvian National Opera, Soloist; baritone
Ruben Asatryan<\/strong> (Armenia) – Vocal Theoretical Faculty at Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan, Dean; conductor
Annemarie Burnett<\/strong> (Germany) – Hamburg State Opera, Artistic Operations Office
Luana DeVol<\/strong> (USA) – American Wagner Project, Director; Opera Las Vegas, Director Emeritus; soprano
Anna Elisabet Einarsson<\/strong> (Norway) – The National Academy of Arts, Dean of the Academy of Opera; mezzo-soprano
Rico F\u00f6rster<\/strong> (Germany) – Agentur F\u00f6rster, Agent
G\u00f6ran Gademan<\/strong> (Sweden) – Gothenburg Opera, Dramaturg
Martina Gojceta Silic<\/strong> (Croatia) \u2013 Zagreb Academy of Music, Dean; soprano
Ivo Graca<\/strong> (Czechia) – Prague National Theatre Opera and State Opera, Head of the Artistic Administration
Riikka Hakola<\/strong> (Finland) – Vocal coach, soprano
Cristian Hodrea<\/strong> (Romania) – Opera Nationala Romana Cluj-Napoca, Soloist; baritone
Tamar Iveri<\/strong> (Georgia) – Batumian Rhapsody Festival and Competition, Founder and Artistic Director; soprano
K\u0119stutis Jak\u0161tas<\/strong> (Lithuania) – Kaunas State Musical Theatre, Stage Director
Jonas Janulevi\u010dius<\/strong> (Lithuania) – Kaunas State Musical Theatre, Chief Conductor
Evelina Pilipavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117-Juraskiene<\/strong>\u00a0(Lithuania) \u2013 Kaunas Academy of Music, pianist
Daniel Magdal<\/strong> (Romania) – Bucharest National Opera, Artistic Director; tenor
Eeva-Maria Kopp<\/strong> (Finland) – Finnish National Opera, Opera Coordinator; soprano
Franziska M. Kaiser<\/strong> (Germany) – Casting Consultant
Toomas Kaldaru<\/strong> (Italy) – Pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher
Beata Klatka<\/strong> (Poland) – Polish National Opera Teatr Wielki, Young Artists Programme coordinator
Jaakko Kortekangas<\/strong> (Finland) – Finnish National Opera, Artistic Administrator; baritone
Brigitta Kov\u00e1cs<\/strong> (Hungary) \u2013 M\u00fcpa Budapest, Manager of Co-productions
Marc Krone<\/strong> (The Netherlands) – Dutch opera and operetta stage director
Benedikt Nawrath<\/strong> (Germany) – Mannheim National Theatre, Head of the Artistic Bureau; tenor
Hans Nieuwenhuis<\/strong> (The Netherlands) – Orfeo Foundation, General Director, opera stage director
Oksana Madarash<\/strong> (Ukraine) – Kyiv National Academic Operetta Theatre, Chief Conductor
Georg Malvius<\/strong> (Sweden) – stage director
\u0112rika Millere<\/strong> (Latvia) – Latvian National Opera, pianist
Isla Mundell Perkins<\/strong> (Germany) – Hamburg State Opera, Casting Director
Alexandru Petrovici<\/strong> (Romania) – National University of Music Bucharest, Head of the Opera Studio; pianist
Evelina Pilipavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117-Juraskiene<\/strong> (Lithuania) – Kaunas Academy of Music, pianist
Oliver Ringelhahn<\/strong> (Austria) – Graz Opera, Head of the Artistic Administration Office; tenor
Henning Ruhe<\/strong> (Sweden) – Gothenburg Opera, Artistic Director
Anna Samuil<\/strong> (Germany) – Staatsoper Berlin, Soloist; the winner of the Klaudia Taev Competition in 2001; soprano
Peter Sch\u00fcnemann<\/strong> (Germany\/Finland) – Advisor \/ Coordinator at PPPA Artists Services
Christoph Seuferle<\/strong> (Germany) – Deutsche Oper Berlin, Casting Manager
Benjaminas \u017delvys<\/strong> (Lithuania) – Kaunas State Musical Theatre, General Manager
Adam Tom\u0161\u016f<\/strong> (Czechia) – Prague National Theatre Opera and State Opera, Casting Manager
Steffi Turre<\/strong> (Germany) – Halle Opera House, Casting Director
Ivan T\u00f6rsz<\/strong> (Germany) – conductor
Tarmo Vaask<\/strong> (Germany) – Staatstheater N\u00fcrnberg, Conductor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The main jury of the 13th Klaudia Taev Competition (2023): Vesselina Kasarova (Bulgaria) – Chairwoman of the Jury; mezzo-sopranoJohn Allison (UK) – Opera magazine, Chief Editor; musicologistMichael Barobeck (Austria) \u2013 Graz Opera, Casting ManagerTamas Bator (Hungary) \u2013 M\u00fcpa Budapest, Program Director; bassFlorin Estefan (Romania) – Cluj-Napoca Romanian National Opera, General Manager; baritonThomas Hermann (Germany) – Nationaltheater Mannheim, […]<\/p>", "protected": false }, "author": 2, "featured_media": 0, "parent": 9, "menu_order": 33, "comment_status": "closed", "ping_status": "closed", "template": "", "meta": { "footnotes": "" }, "class_list": [ "post-3914", "page", "type-page", "status-publish", "hentry" ], "_links": { "self": [ { "href": "https:\/\/www.promfest.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3914", "targetHints": { "allow": [ "GET" ] } } ], "collection": [ { "href": "https:\/\/www.promfest.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages" } ], "about": [ { "href": "https:\/\/www.promfest.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page" } ], "author": [ { "embeddable": true, "href": "https:\/\/www.promfest.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2" } ], "replies": [ { "embeddable": true, "href": "https:\/\/www.promfest.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3914" } ], "version-history": [ { "count": 24, "href": "https:\/\/www.promfest.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3914\/revisions" } ], "predecessor-version": [ { "id": 6354, "href": "https:\/\/www.promfest.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3914\/revisions\/6354" } ], "up": [ { "embeddable": true, "href": "https:\/\/www.promfest.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9" } ], "wp:attachment": [ { "href": "https:\/\/www.promfest.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3914" } ], "curies": [ { "name": "wp", "href": "https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}", "templated": true } ] } }