Bidu Sayão International Vocal Competition

The Bidu Sayão International Vocal Competition (Portuguese: Concurso Internacional de Canto Bidu Sayão) is a singing competition held at the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil named after that country's most famous opera singer, Bidu Sayão. It is a competition open to singers of any nationality for up-and-coming young singers and as such has an age restriction. The competition is divided between male and female participants and is the most important vocal competition in Latin America.

The competition has an international jury composed of conductors, artistic directors from international opera houses and musicologists. The competition was created in 1999 by the opera producer Cleber Papa who is its President.

List of winners

Name	Voice type	Country	Prize	Competition place and year
Eduardo Itaborahy	tenor	Brazil	1st Prize	2000, Belém do Pará
Daniel Lee	baritone	Korea	2nd Prize	2000, Belém do Pará
João Augusto O' de Almeida	tenor	Brazil	3rd Prize	2000, Belém do Pará
Gabriella Pace	soprano	Italy	1st Prize	2000, Belém do Pará
Marilda Costa	soprano	Brazil	2nd Prize	2000, Belém do Pará
Alpha de Oliveira	soprano	Brazil	3rd Prize	2000, Belém do Pará
Antonio Wilson	tenor	Brazil	Audience Jury	2000, Belém do Pará
Orival Bento Gonçalves	bass	Brazil	1st Prize	2001, Belém do Pará
Manuel Alvares	baritone	Brazil	2nd Prize	2001, Belém do Pará
André Vidal	tenor	Brazil	3rd Prize	2001, Belém do Pará
Carmen Monarcha	soprano	Brazil	1st Prize	2001, Belém do Pará
Marília Vargas	soprano	Brazil	2nd Prize	2001, Belém do Pará
Lílian Souza Assumpção	soprano	Brazil	3rd Prize	2001, Belém do Pará
Rodolfo Giugliani	baritone	Brazil	1st Prize	2002, Belém do Pará
Miguel Geraldi	tenor	Brazil	2nd Prize	2002, Belém do Pará
Federico Sanguinetti	baritone	Uruguay	4th Prize	2002, Belém do Pará
Flávio Mathias	bass	Brazil	5th prize	2002, Belém do Pará
Denise de Freitas	mezzo-soprano	Brazil	2nd Prize	2002, Belém do Pará
Lys Nardoto	soprano	Brazil	3rd Prize	2002, Belém do Pará
Guiomar Milan	soprano	Brazil	4th Prize	2002, Belém do Pará
Ewandro Cruz Stenzowski	tenor	Brazil	Prêmio Estímulo	2002, Belém do Pará
Luciano Botelho	tenor	Brazil	Prize "Estímulo"	2002, Belém do Pará
Homero Velho	baritone	Brazil	Audience Prize	2002, Belém do Pará
Guilherme Pires Rosa	baritone	Brazil	1st Prize	2003, Belém do Pará
Leonardo Pace	baritone	Brazil	2nd Prize	2003, Belém do Pará
Carlos Rodriguez	baritone	Brazil	3rd Prize	2003, Belém do Pará
Adriana Clis	mezzo-soprano	Brazil	1st Prize	2003, Belém do Pará
Helen Donaldson	soprano	Australia	2nd Prize & Audience Prize	2003, Belém do Pará
Rosana Marcela Schiavi	soprano	Argentina	3rd Prize	2003, Belém do Pará
Felipe Oliveira	baritone	Brazil	Prize "Revelação"	2003, Belém do Pará
Leniza Menna Barreto	soprano	Brazil	Prize "Estímulo"	2003, Belém do Pará
Madalena Aliverti	soprano	Brazil	Scholarship “Maria Helena Coelho Cardoso”	2003, Belém do Pará
Bruno Ribeiro	tenor	Portugal	1st Prize	2004, Belém do Pará
David Marcondes	baritone	Brazil	2nd Prize	2004, Belém do Pará
Marcos Liesenberg	tenor	Brazil	3rd Prize	2004, Belém do Pará
Luciana Melamed	soprano	Brazil	1st Prize	2004, Belém do Pará
Sandra Medeiros	soprano	Portugal	2nd Prize	2004, Belém do Pará
Virgínia Cavalcanti	mezzo-soprano	Brazil	Audience Prize & Prize "Canção"	2004, Belém do Pará
Alexander de Paula	baritone	Brazil	Prize "Estímulo"	2004, Belém do Pará
Thiago Arancam	tenor	Brazil	Prize "Revelação"	2004, Belém do Pará
Luciana Melamed	soprano	Brazil	Prize Orquestra Unisinos	2004, Belém do Pará
Antônio Wilson	tenor	Brazil	Scholarship “Maria Helena Coelho Cardoso”	2004, Belém do Pará
Marconi Araújo	countertenor	Brazil	1st Prize & Prize "Revelação"	2005, Belém do Pará
Geilson Santos	tenor	Brazil	3rd Prize	2005, Belém do Pará
Bárbara Llanes	soprano	Cuba	2nd Prize	2005, Belém do Pará
Cláudia Azevedo	soprano	Brazil	3rd Prize	2005, Belém do Pará
Giancarlo Barbieri	tenor	Brazil	Audience Prize	2005, Belém do Pará
Manuela Freua	soprano	Brazil	Prize "Estímulo" & Prize "Canção"	2005, Belém do Pará
Phoenix Luz	soprano	Brazil	Joungest Singer Prize	2005, Belém do Pará
Diana Daniel	mezzo-soprano	Brazil	Special Prize of the Jury	2005, Belém do Pará
Ji-Min Park	tenor	South Korea	1st Prize	2006, Belém do Pará
Leonardo Neiva	baritone	Brazil	2nd Prize & Prize "Canção"	2006, Belém do Pará
David Marcondes	baritone	Brazil	3rd Prize & Audience Prize	2006, Belém do Pará
Maria Luisa Freitas	mezzo-soprano	Portugal	1st Prize	2006, Belém do Pará
Vanessa Bertolini	soprano	Brazil	2nd Prize	2006, Belém do Pará
Maira Lautert	soprano	Brazil	3rd Prize	2006, Belém do Pará
Nadja Sousa	soprano	Brazil	Prize "Revelação"	2006, Belém do Pará
Isabela Santos	soprano	Brazil	Joungest Singer Prize	2006, Belém do Pará
Antonio Wilson	tenor	Brazil	Prize "Estímulo"	2006, Belém do Pará
Yuri Jaruskevicius	baritone	Brazil	2nd Prize	2008, Belo Horizonte
Boris Azarian	bass-baritone	Brazil	3rd Prize	2008, Belo Horizonte
Ariadne Oliveira	mezzo-soprano	Brazil	2nd Prize & Prize "Canção"	2008, Belo Horizonte
Carla Domingues	coloratura soprano	Brazil	3rd Prize	2008, Belo Horizonte
Carlos Eduardo Vieira	baritone	Brazil	Male Audience Prize	2008, Belo Horizonte
Carolina Rennó	mezzo-soprano	Brazil	Female Audience Prize	2008, Belo Horizonte
Bianca Pignataro	soprano	Brazil	Prize "Estímulo"	2008, Belo Horizonte
Cristiano Rocha	bass-baritone	Brazil	Best male opera singer	2008, Belo Horizonte
Ludmilla Bauerfeldt	soprano	Brazil	Best female opera singer	2008, Belo Horizonte

References

• "Concurso Bidu Sayão começa hoje em Belém". Estadao (in Portuguese). August 26, 2002. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
• Meira, Tatiana (April 20, 2004). "Premiação dupla em concurso de canto Virgínia Cavalcanti foi grande vencedora do Bidu Sayão". Diário de Pernambuco (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
• "Inscrições para o 6º Concurso Internacional de Canto Bidu Sayão". Informe Sergipe (in Portuguese). February 17, 2005. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2009-10-25.

External links

• Website