With the Young Singers Project, in 2008 the Salzburg Festival created a platform to support rising young vocalists. Since this success story began, 196 young singers from 46 countries have participated in the scheme. This year, the 14 participants come from nine nations: Armenia, Austria, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ukraine and the USA. The Young Singers Project Celebrates a Double Anniversary in 2023: Founding of YSP 15 Years Ago, Support from the Kühne Foundation for 10 Years.
From numerous international applications, many auditions help Evamaria Wieser select those singers who will receive this fellowship and benefit from its comprehensive educational offerings. These include not only musical lessons and repertoire expansion, but also stage rehearsals, language coaching, song interpretation and collaboration with Festival artists. Its master classes and practical applicability also contribute to making YSP a young artist programme which has become an international benchmark. This year, public master classes will be given by Malcolm Martineau, Christiane Karg and Michele Pertusi.
Every year, the Young Singers Project participants star in the performances of the children’s opera; this year this will be a new production of Maurice Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges. They also appear in several productions of the current Festival season and during the concerts of this year’s Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award competition. In their final concert on 25 August, they present themselves to the audience. The concert at the main auditorium of the International Mozart Foundation features the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under the baton of Adrian Kelly. For many guests, this performance of the Young Singers is the emotional highlight of their visit to the Salzburg Festival.
Free tickets to the public master classes will be available online from 1 July 2023 onwards; please visit https://www.
Left to right.: Lukas Crepaz (Executive Director), Teona Todua, Matteo Guerzé, Evamaria Wieser (Director YSP), Alejandro Baliñas Vieites, Hovhannes Karapetyan, Matteo Ivan Rašić, Johanna Rosa Falkinger, Laura Nicorescu (Assistant Director YSP), Liza Lozica, Daria Kolisan, Paweł Horodyski, Anita Monserrat, Aitana Sanz Pérez, Festival President Kristina Hammer, Lilit Davtyan, Anthony León, Grisha Martirosyan © SF/Jan Friese
The participants in the 2023 Young Singers Project will appear this summer in the following productions and roles:
THE GREEK PASSION
Teona Todua (Soprano) – Despinio
Matteo Ivan Rašić (Tenor) – Adonis
Alejandro Baliñas Vieites (Bass-Baritone) – Kostandis
MACBETH
Grisha Martirosyan (Baritone) – Servant/Apparition
Hovhannes Karapetyan (Bass) – Sicario
DAS KIND UND DIE ZAUBERDINGE (L’ENFANT ET LES SORTILÈGES)
Johanna Rosa Falkinger (Soprano) – The Child
Aitana Sanz Pérez (Soprano) – Fire, Nightingale, Young Shepherdess
Lilit Davtyan (Soprano) – Armchair, Princess, Bat
Anita Monserrat (Mezzo-Soprano) – Squirrel, Cat, Shepherd
Liza Lozica (Mezzo-Soprano) – The Mother, Tea Cup, Dragonfly
Anthony León (Tenor) – Arithmetician, Tea Pot, Frog
Matteo Guerzé (Baritone) – Clock, Tomcat
Paweł Horodyski (Bass-Baritone) – Armchair, Tree
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Marijan Zlobec