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List of the Singers Admitted to the Competition LIST OF THE SINGERS ADMITTED TO THE COMPETITION FIRST NAME SURNAME COUNTRY VOICE TYPE NOTES 1 Gamid Abdulov RUSSIA / AZERBAIJAN baritone Recommendation by The 2 Alina Adamski POLAND soprano International Opera Studio (IOS), Opernhaus Zurich Not evaluated by: Matthias 3 Stefan Astakhov GERMANY baritone Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) Not evaluated by: Matthias 4 Dagmara Barna POLAND soprano Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) 5 Eliza Boom NEW ZEALAND soprano 6 Paweł Brożek POLAND tenor Not evaluated by: Matthias 7 Monika Buczkowska POLAND soprano Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) Prizewinner of Leyla Gencer 8 Piotr Buszewski POLAND tenor Voice Competition 9 Vladislav Buyalskiy UKRAINE bass-baritone Not evaluated by: Matthias 10 Paride Cataldo ITALY tenor Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) Recommendation by Opera 11 Anna El-Khashem RUSSIA soprano Studio of the Bayerische Staatsoper 12 Frische Felicitas GERMANY soprano 13 Margrethe Fredheim NORWAY soprano 14 Kseniia Galitskaia RUSSIA soprano 15 Kim Gihoon SOUTH KOREA baritone 16 William Goforth USA tenor Not evaluated by: Matthias Agnieszka 17 Grochala POLAND soprano Rexroth (according to point II.6 Jadwiga of Selection Panel’s Statute) Not evaluated by: Matthias 18 Yuriy Hadzetskyy UKRAINE baritone Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) 19 Anna Harvey UK mezzo-soprano Not evaluated by: Matthias 20 Mateusz Hoedt POLAND bass Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) 21 Lilly Jørstad NORWAY mezzo-soprano Prizewinner of Ada Sari coloratura 22 Aleksandra Jovanović SERBIA International Vocal Artistry soprano Competition 23 Inna Kaluhina UKRAINE soprano 24 Sergey Kaydalov RUSSIA baritone 25 Diana Kazaryan RUSSIA soprano Not evaluated by: Matthias 26 Joanna Kędzior POLAND soprano Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) Prizewinner of The International 27 Zlata Khershberg RUSSIA / ISRAEL mezzo-soprano Singing Competition NEUE STIMMEN 28 Seunghee Kho SOUTH KOREA soprano 29 Nastassia Khrapitskaya BELARUS soprano SOUTH KOREA / Recommendation by Opera 30 Jaeil Kim tenor GERMANY Studio of the Oper Frankfurt Recommendation by The Bolshoi 31 Ruslana Koval UKRAINE soprano Theatre Young Artists Opera Program 32 Sławomir Kowalewski POLAND baritone 33 Maria Kublashvili GEORGIA soprano KAZAHSTAN / 34 Abildin Kudaibergen tenor NETHERLANDS Not evaluated by: Matthias 35 Nataliia Kukhar UKRAINE mezzo-soprano Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) Recommendation by Paris Opera 36 Maciej Kwaśnikowski POLAND tenor Academy 37 Dmytro Kyforuk UKRAINE tenor 38 Andrei Kymach UKRAINE baritone 39 Taisiya Labetskaya RUSSIA mezzo-soprano 40 Anastasia Lebedyantseva RUSSIA / LATVIA mezzo-soprano Recommendation by The Jette Parker Young Artists 41 Haegee Lee SOUTH KOREA soprano Programme, Royal Opera House, London 42 Myungin Lee SOUTH KOREA tenor Not evaluated by: Matthias 43 Karolina Makuła POLAND mezzo-soprano Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) 44 Mykhailo Malafii UKRAINE tenor Not evaluated by: Matthias 45 Anna Malesza POLAND soprano Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) 46 Palesa Malieloa SOUTH AFRICA soprano 47 Minami Matsubara JAPAN soprano 48 Demian Matushevskyi UKRAINE bass Recommendation by Paris Opera 49 Danylo Matviienko UKRAINE baritone Academy Recommendation by The 50 Jamez McCorkle USA / SWITZERLAND tenor International Opera Studio (IOS), Opernhaus Zurich 51 Mihail Mihaylov BULGARIA tenor 52 Daniel Mirosław POLAND bass-baritone 53 Megan Moore USA mezzo-soprano 54 Maria Motolygina RUSSIA soprano 55 Bryan Murray USA baritone Not evaluated by: Matthias 56 Sławomir Naborczyk POLAND tenor Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) 57 Kseniia Nikolaieva UKRAINE mezzo-soprano Prizewinner of The Kościuszko 58 Alexandra Nowakowski USA / POLAND soprano Foundation Marcella Sembrich International Voice Competition Recommendation by The 59 Thobela Ntshanyana SOUTH AFRICA tenor International Opera Studio (IOS), Opernhaus Zurich 60 Diana Nurmukhametova RUSSIA soprano 61 Tigran Ohanyan ARMENIA tenor Prizewinner of Ada Sari 62 Hanna Okońska-Ratajczak POLAND soprano International Vocal Artistry Competition 63 Natalia Ołów POLAND mezzo-soprano 64 Maria Ostroukhova RUSSIA mezzo-soprano 65 Changdai Park SOUTH KOREA bass-baritone Not evaluated by: Matthias 66 Monika Pleškytė LITHUANIA soprano Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) Not evaluated by: Matthias 67 Valentina Pluzhnikova UKRAINE mezzo-soprano Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) 68 Matheus Pompeu BRAZIL tenor 69 Ekaterina Protsenko RUSSIA / AUSTRIA soprano Recommendation by Opera 70 Boris Prýgl CZECH REPUBLIC baritone Studio of the Bayerische Staatsoper Recommendation by Dutch 71 Cody Quattlebaum USA bass-baritone National Opera Studio 72 Luis Quiros COSTA RICA baritone Not evaluated by: Matthias 73 Mariam Ravashdekh UKRAINE soprano Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) 74 Maria Belen Rivarola ARGENTINA soprano coloratura 75 Maria Rozynek-Banaszak POLAND soprano 76 Natalia Rubiś POLAND soprano Not evaluated by: Brenda 77 Benjamin Russell IRELAND baritone Hurley (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) 78 Inna Safronova RUSSIA soprano 79 Galeano Salas MEXICO / USA tenor Recommendation by The 80 Dara Savinova ESTONIA mezzo-soprano International Opera Studio (IOS), Opernhaus Zurich Recommendation by Paris Opera 81 Sarah Shine IRELAND soprano Academy Not evaluated by: Matthias 82 Leonid Shoshyn UKRAINE tenor Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) SWITZERLAND / Prizewinner of ARD International 83 Milan Siljanov bass-baritone GERMANY Music Competition 84 Petr Sokolov RUSSIA baritone 85 Rodrigo Sosa Dal Pozzo VENEZUELA / ITALY countertenor 86 Matthew Swensen USA tenor Recommendation by Paris Opera 87 Varon Timothée FRANCE baritone Academy 88 Vladyslav Tlushch UKRAINE baritone Not evaluated by: Matthias 89 Rafał Tomkiewicz POLAND countertenor Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) Recommendation by Opera 90 Mikołaj Trąbka POLAND baritone Studio of the Oper Frankfurt Prizewinner of Ada Sari 91 Paweł Trojak POLAND baritone International Vocal Artistry Competition 92 Vadim Volkov RUSSIA countertenor 93 Natalie Weinberg USA soprano Not evaluated by: Matthias 94 Damian Wilma POLAND baritone Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) 95 Swiatoslav Wynnyk UKRAINE baritone 96 Sen Xu CHINA tenor Prizewinner of The Kościuszko 97 WooYoung Yoon SOUTH KOREA tenor Foundation Marcella Sembrich International Voice Competition 98 Łukasz Załęski POLAND tenor 99 Slávka Zámečníková SLOVAKIA soprano Prizewinner of The Kościuszko 100 Hubert Zapiór POLAND baritone Foundation Marcella Sembrich International Voice Competition Prizewinner of International 101 Yajie Zhang CHINA mezzo-soprano Vocal Competition s-Hertogenbosch Recommendation by Opera 102 Long Zhang CHINA tenor Studio of the Bayerische Staatsoper 103 Olga Zharikova RUSSIA soprano 104 Park Zoe Juhyun SOUTH KOREA soprano Not evaluated by: Matthias 105 Jan Żądło POLAND baritone Rexroth (according to point II.6 of Selection Panel’s Statute) .
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