The International Singing Competition for Young Opera Singers
Final Rounds: June 14 through June 21, 2025 at Bern (Switzerland)

Congratulations to the Winners 2025

Winners 2025. Photo: Prize Winner 2025: Valeriia Gorbunova (3rd prize), Geon Kim (1st prize) and Valentina Pravdina (2nd prize) – (f.l.t.r.) Credit: Janosch Abel

Winners

Geon Kim. Photo: Geon Kim

Geon Kim

Baritone / Bass

  • Trophy1st Prize Opera
Annabel Soode. Photo: Kaupo Kikkas

Annabel Soode

Soprano

  • TrophyJane Carty Memorial Prize
Tatev Baroyan. Photo: Tigran Arakelyan

Tatev Baroyan

Soprano

  • TrophyAudience Prize
  • TrophyMedia Prize
Daria Akulova. Photo: Dasha Suchak

Daria Akulova

Soprano

  • Handshake Awarded Engagement:
    Wexford Festival Opera
Ben Reisinger. Photo: Dario Acosta

Ben Reisinger

Tenor

  • Handshake Awarded Engagement:
    Sächsische Staatsoper - Semperoper
Valentina Pravdina

Valentina Pravdina

Soprano

  • Trophy2nd Prize Opera
Alma Ruoqi Sun

Alma Ruoqi Sun

Soprano

  • Handshake Awarded Engagement:
    Sächsische Staatsoper - Semperoper
Ivan Lyvch. Photo: Kvetoslav Šakový

Ivan Lyvch

Baritone / Bass

  • Handshake Awarded Engagements:
    Deutsche Oper Berlin
    Deutsche Oper am Rhein
    Wexford Festival Opera
    Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
Ani Aghajanyan. Photo: Gayane Hovsepyan

Ani Aghajanyan

Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

  • Handshake Awarded Engagement:
    Dutch National Opera
JINGYI YU

JINGYI YU

Soprano

  • TrophyHans Gabor Prize
Lonwabo Mose

Lonwabo Mose

Baritone / Bass

  • Handshake Awarded Engagements:
    Bühnen Bern
    The Metropolitan Opera - Lindemann Young Artist Development Program & Laffont Competition
Sophie Kidwell. Photo: Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir

Sophie Kidwell

Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

  • Handshake Awarded Engagement:
    Bühnen Bern
Molly Dzangare

Molly Dzangare

Soprano

  • Handshake Awarded Engagement:
    La Monnaie/De Munt
Gosh Sargsyan

Gosh Sargsyan

Baritone / Bass

  • Handshake Awarded Engagement:
    Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Valeriia Gorbunova

Valeriia Gorbunova

Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

  • Trophy3rd Prize Opera
Current press release 2025 with the prizes and engagements/audition invitations in detail here

Why Participate?

773 Singers

The Belvedere Competition is one of the largest competitions for young opera singers in the world. 773 singers participated in 2024. Become part of the global singing elite and start your international opera career!

44% Engagement Ratio

4 engagements were awarded by the Opera Jury in 2024 to the 9 finalists. This makes a commitment rate of 44.4%.
Each year, the jury also regularly awards engagements to participants in the first rounds and semi-finals. You can find all the engagements awarded last year under ‘Winners 2024’.

20 Jury Members

The Opera Jury in the final rounds is composed exclusively with opera and casting directors of the most prestigious opera houses, who award additional engagements to the participants. The international Media Jury in the final rounds awards the additional Media Prize.

14 Professional Observers

Numerous singers’ agents and representatives – 28 in 2024 – of international opera and concert houses visit the final rounds as observers. They have made the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition into a veritable “Wall Street of Voices”. It’s your “springboard” to a career in opera.

52 Qualification Cities

The international qualifying rounds are held each year on all continents and gives young, highly talented opera singers the best access to the professional opera world.

43 Years of Experience

The Belvedere Singing Competition started in 1982, making it one of the renowned and best networked singing competition in the world.

Winners 2024

Etīna Saulīte. Photo: Jānis Ķeris

Etīna Saulīte

Soprano

  • TrophyJane Carty Memorial Prize
  • Handshake Awarded Engagements:
    Dutch National Opera
    Dzintari Concert Hall
Thando Zwane. Photo: Mark Cloete

Thando Zwane

Baritone / Bass

  • TrophyAudience Prize
  • Handshake Awarded Engagement:
    Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
Adrian Janus

Adrian Janus

Baritone / Bass

  • Handshake Awarded Engagement:
    Dzintari Concert Hall
JING YI YU

JING YI YU

Soprano

  • TrophyHans Gabor Prize
Volodymyr Morozov

Volodymyr Morozov

Baritone / Bass

  • Handshake Awarded Engagement:
    Deutsche Oper Berlin
Michael Appiah Kubi Mensah

Michael Appiah Kubi Mensah

Baritone / Bass

  • Handshake Awarded Engagement:
    The Metropolitan Opera - Lindemann Young Artist Development Program & Laffont Competition
Teona Todua. Photo: Olesya Dyatlova

Teona Todua

Soprano

  • Handshake Awarded Engagement:
    Deutsche Oper Berlin
Matthew Cairns. Photo: Sam Gaetz

Matthew Cairns

Tenor

  • Trophy3rd Prize Opera
  • TrophyMedia Prize
Daniel O'Hearn. Photo: Dario Acosta

Daniel O'Hearn

Tenor

  • Trophy2nd Prize Opera
Janice Van Rooy

Janice Van Rooy

Soprano

  • Handshake Awarded Engagement:
    Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Andrew Hyunjung Kim

Andrew Hyunjung Kim

Tenor

  • Handshake Awarded Engagement:
    Theater Bonn
Jungrae Noah Kim. Photo: Jiseock cho

Jungrae Noah Kim

Baritone / Bass

  • Trophy1st Prize Opera
Nicole Chirka

Nicole Chirka

Mezzo-Soprano / Alt

  • Handshake Awarded Engagement:
    Bühnen Bern
Berner Symphonieorchester – Photo (c) Priska Kletterer