With the Young Singers Project, the Salzburg Festival created a high-carat
platform for the encouragement and support of young vocalists in 2008. This year, 13 young singers from 12 nations take part in the Young Singers Project. They come from Great Britain, Turkey, Bosnia-Herzegovina, South Korea, France, Belgium, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Austria, Romania and Poland.
Young Singers in Salzburg, photo SF/Herbert Rohrer
The director of the Young Singers Project, Evamaria Wieser, a member of numerous juries herself, selects young vocalists at international auditions who then receive the opportunity to work with Festival artists. In addition, the curriculum includes musical lessons and repertoire expansion, staged rehearsals, language coaching and song interpretation. Both master classes and the practical relevance of their work make YSP a young artist programme which is internationally considered a model.
The participants perform in the new production of the opera Die Zauberflöte für Kinder, a children’s version of Mozart’s Magic Flute, and appear in other productions of the 2018 Festival season as well. The YSP participants present themselves to the public in a final concert on 25 August 2018.
“The golden touch, or rather, the excellent ear of Evamaria Wieser and the Festival is
demonstrated by the fact that the participants of the Young Singers Project achieve
outstanding results at competitions all over the world and are engaged by the leading opera houses,” says Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler.
This summer, the participants of the 2018 Young Singers Project will appear in the
following productions:
Neven Crnić
Opera
Salome
Neven Crnić (Baritone), Cappadocian
Paweł Trojak (Baritone), 2nd Nazarene,
Die Zauberflöte für Kinder
Ion Stancu (Bass), Sarastro
Hyunjai Lee (Tenor), Tamino
Emma Posman (Soprano), Queen of the Night
Marie Perbost (Soprano), Pamina
Liviu Holender (Baritone), Papageno
Carina Schmieger (Soprano), Papagena
Gürkan Gider (Tenor), Monostatos
Concert
Young Conductors Award Concert Weekend
Olga Rudyk (Soprano) / YCA Award Concert Weekend 1
Alyona Rostovskaya (Soprano) / YCA Award Concert Weekend 2
Katie Coventry (Mezzo-Soprano) / YCA Award Concert Weekend 3,
Success for the 2017 Young Singers
Alina Adamski performed in the Zurich Opera’s production of La finta giardiniera, part of the Opera Studio, under Gianluca Capuano’s baton in May 2018. This winter, she will join the tour of China of the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project, alongside her fellow YSP alumni Ilya Kutyukhin and Carrie-Ann Williams.
Vasilisa Berzhanskaya will sing Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Olga in Eugene Onegin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin during the 2018/19 season. This summer, she takes on the role of Masha in The Queen of Spades at the Salzburg Festival.
Ilya Kutyukhin played the role of Guglielmo in Così fan tutte during a Glyndebourne tour in the autumn of 2017. He also sang this role this spring at the Vilnius City Opera.
Maciej Kwaśnikowski is a member of the Paris Opera Academy and will perform this summer at the Salzburg Festival in Schubert’s Mass in E-flat major with the Vienna Philharmonic under Riccardo Muti.
Huw Montague Rendall will appear as Harlekin in Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos in Aix-en-Provence in July 2018.
Gleb Peryazev sings the role of Narumov in The Queen of Spades this summer at the
Salzburg Festival.
Anita Rosati appears in Guillaume Tell at the Theater an der Wien in October 2018,
conducted by Diego Matheuz.
Anne-Fleur Werner performed the role of the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, among others, at the Landestheater Salzburg during the past season.
Former Young Singers at this year‘s Salzburg Festival
Mauro Peter (YSP 2012) sings the role of Tamino in Die Zauberflöte this summer at theSalzburg Festival.
David Steffens (YSP 2012) takes on the role of the Fifth Jew in Salome this summer at the Salzburg Festival.
Alisa Kolosova (YSP 2009) will appear at the Salzburg Festival this summer as a soloist in Schubert’s Mass in E-flat major (D. 950) with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Riccardo Muti.
Vasilisa Berzhanskaya sings the role of Masha in The Queen of Spades at the Salzburg Festival.
Maciej Kwaśnikowski will also perform this summer at the Salzburg Festival in Schubert’s Mass in E-flat major with the Vienna Philharmonic under Riccardo Muti.
Gleb Peryazev sings the role of Narumov in The Queen of Spades this summer at the
Salzburg Festival. (After Press Materials)
Marijan Zlobec