![]() ![]() This Wagner tradition began under the leadership of the company’s founding general director, Glynn Ross, and has been expanded under Speight Jenkins. Since then, these four prize-winners, plus many of the other competitors, have gone on to significant artistic accomplishments at opera houses around the world.īeginning with its first presentation of the Ring in 1975, Seattle Opera has built an international reputation as the leading presenter of the Wagner repertoire in the United States. ![]() South African soprano Elza van den Heever and Swedish tenor Michael Weinius won the second International Wagner Competition in 2008. Irish soprano Miriam Murphy and English baritone James Rutherford won the competition in 2006. Jenkins created the competition to identify and recognize qualified, emerging opera singers who demonstrate clear promise of an important career in the Wagnerian repertoire. ![]() The first International Wagner Competition was held in August 2006 and made possible by a grant from the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences. I look forward to hearing the competition and to the decisions made by our distinguished panel of judges.” We have in Sebastian Lang-Lessing an exciting new conductor for Seattle Opera. ![]() “They will make our third International Wagner Competition a thrilling and rewarding event. “Our auditions turned up ten remarkable young Wagnerians,” said Seattle Opera’s General Director Speight Jenkins. The judges for Seattle Opera’s third International Wagner Competition are an international group of authorities in all aspects of opera production-mezzo soprano Stephanie Blythe, who has spent five summers in Seattle singing Wagner’s Ring Peter Kazaras stage director, tenor, and Director of Opera Studies at UCLA Bernd Loebe, the Director of Opera Frankfurt François Rochaix, director of Seattle Opera’s Ring from 1985 to 1995 and Stephen Wadsworth, director of Seattle Opera’s Ring from 2000 to 2013 and Director of Opera Studies for the Juilliard School. ![]()
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