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The main jury of the 11th Klaudia Taev Competition (2019)<\/strong>

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Dolora Zajick<\/strong> (USA) – Chairman of the Jury; Metropolitan Opera, New York; mezzo-soprano
Tamas Bator<\/strong> (Hungary) – M\u00fcpa Budapest, Program Director
Plamen Kartaloff<\/strong> (Bulgaria) – Sofia National Opera and Ballet, General Manager; Academic, stage director
Helen Lepalaan<\/strong> (Estonia) – Estonian National Opera, Casting Manager; mezzo-soprano
Hans Nieuwenhuis <\/strong>(The Netherlands) – Orfeo Foundation; stage director
Erki Pehk<\/strong> (Estonia) – Artistic Director of the Competition; conductor
Marika Petti <\/strong>(Estonia) – Music Theatre Vanemuine, Casting Manager
Anzhelina Schvachka<\/strong> (Ukraine) – Ukrainian National Opera; Prizewinner of the Klaudia Taev Competition; mezzo-soprano
Christoph Seuferle<\/strong> (Germany) – Deutsche Oper Berlin, Artistic Administrator

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First round jury<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Erkki Alste <\/strong>(Finland\/Germany) – Opera-Connection; Stretta Management, Manager
Ivan T\u00f6rzs<\/strong>\u00a0(Germany) – Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik, Detmold, Professor; conductor, pianist
Birgit Kronshage\u00a0<\/strong>(Germany) – Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik, Detmold, Professor
Fabio Vettraino <\/strong>(Germany) – Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik, Detmold, Professor, pianist
Stefan Vogel<\/strong> (Germany) – Staatstheater Mainz, Casting Manager
Jenny Anvelt<\/strong> (Italy) – Milan Conservatory, Professor, soprano
Vera Petrova<\/strong> (Bulgaria) – Sofia National Opera and Ballet, Deputy Director; stage director
Zhorzh Dimitrov<\/strong> (Bulgaria) – Sofia National Opera and Ballet; conductor\u00a0
Boris Spassov<\/strong>\u00a0(Bulgaria) – Sofia National Opera and Ballet; conductor
Velisar Genchev<\/strong>\u00a0(Bulgaria) – Sofia National Opera and Ballet; conductor
Csaba K\u00e1el<\/strong>\u00a0(Hungary) – M\u00fcpa Budapest, Chief Executive Officer
Brigitta Kov\u00e1cs\u00a0<\/strong>(Hungary) – M\u00fcpa Budapest, Manager of Co-productions
Anatoliy Solovyanenko<\/strong> (Ukraine) – Ukrainian National Opera,\u00a0Chief Stage Director
Alla Kulbaba<\/strong>\u00a0(Ukraine) – Ukrainian National Opera, conductor
Martina Gojceta Silic<\/strong>\u00a0(Croatia) – Zagreb Academy of Music, Head of the vocal department
Elena Skuleva-Naydenova<\/strong> (Bulgaria\/Austria) –\u00a0Opera4u Artist Management, agent
Petya Ivanova<\/strong> (Bulgaria\/Slovenia) – Maribor National Theatre, soprano
Stane Jurgec<\/strong> (Slovenia) – Maribor National Theatre, former General Music Director, conductor
Michael Barobeck<\/strong> (Austria) – Graz Opera, Casting Manager
Bianca Luigia Manoleanu<\/strong>\u00a0(Romania) – the National University of Music in Bucharest, soprano
Alexandru Petrovici<\/strong> (Romania) – Bucharest National Opera, pianist
Tomas Ladiga<\/strong> (Lithuania) –\u00a0Kaunas J.Gruodis Conservatory, Professor; Kaunas State Musical Theatre, soloist; bass
Ri\u010dardas \u0160umila<\/strong> (Lithuania) –\u00a0 Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Principal Conductor\u00a0\u00a0
Benjaminas \u017delvys<\/strong> (Lithuania) – Kaunas State Musical Theatre, General Manager; baritone
Anna Elisabet Einarsson<\/strong> (Sweden\/Norway) – Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Assistant Professor
Richard Klingspor<\/strong> (Norway) – Stellis Polaris Management, CEO & Founder, Senior Artist Manager
Alar Pintsaar<\/strong> (Estonia\/Sweden) – Royal Opera Stockholm, bass
Clas Sk\u00f6ld\u00a0<\/strong>(Sweden) – Malm\u00f6 Opera, former Casting Director, bass
Emma Lyr\u00e9n Fernandez<\/strong> (Sweden) – Malm\u00f6 Opera,\u00a0 Head of Corporate Development
Anna Samuil<\/strong> (Russia\/Germany) – Staatsoper Berlin, soloist; Prizewinner of the Klaudia Taev Competition; soprano
Karan Armstrong<\/strong> (USA\/Germany) –\u00a0 Kammers\u00e4ngerin, soprano
Paul M\u00e4gi<\/strong> (Estonia) – Theatre Vanemuine, Music Director; conductor
Peter Sch\u00fcnemann<\/strong>\u00a0(Finland) – Mikkeli Gergiev Festival, Artistic advisor
Rilla Kyykk\u00e4 <\/strong>(Finland) – Finnish National Opera, Artistic administrator
Hovhannes Ayvazyan<\/strong> (Armenia) – Mariinsky Theatre, soloist; tenor
Harutyun\u00a0Arzumanyan <\/strong>(Armenia) –\u00a0Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, conductor
Viktor Moseikin<\/strong> (Russia) – Moscow Academic Musical Theatre, Chief of the Opera department, soloist; tenor
Arturs Maskats<\/strong>\u00a0(Latvia) – Latvijas Koncerti, Program Director, composer
Elina \u0160imkus<\/strong> (Latvia) –\u00a0 Prizewinner of the Klaudia Taev Competition; soprano<\/p>", "protected": false }, "excerpt": { "rendered": "

The main jury of the 11th Klaudia Taev Competition (2019) Dolora Zajick (USA) – Chairman of the Jury; Metropolitan Opera, New York; mezzo-sopranoTamas Bator (Hungary) – M\u00fcpa Budapest, Program DirectorPlamen Kartaloff (Bulgaria) – Sofia National Opera and Ballet, General Manager; Academic, stage directorHelen Lepalaan (Estonia) – Estonian National Opera, Casting Manager; mezzo-sopranoHans Nieuwenhuis (The Netherlands) […]<\/p>", "protected": false }, "author": 1, "featured_media": 0, "parent": 9, "menu_order": 37, "comment_status": "closed", "ping_status": "closed", "template": "", "meta": { "footnotes": "" }, "class_list": [ "post-961", "page", "type-page", "status-publish", "hentry" ], "_links": { "self": [ { "href": "https:\/\/www.promfest.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/961", "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\/1" } ], "replies": [ { "embeddable": true, "href": "https:\/\/www.promfest.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961" } ], "version-history": [ { "count": 11, "href": "https:\/\/www.promfest.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/961\/revisions" } ], "predecessor-version": [ { "id": 6372, "href": "https:\/\/www.promfest.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/961\/revisions\/6372" } ], "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=961" } ], "curies": [ { "name": "wp", "href": "https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}", "templated": true } ] } }