After the success of the previous editions held in Galati Mamertino (ME), Monterotondo, Guidonia Montecelio and Tivoli, to celebrate the tenth year of the Jole De Maria International Opera Competition, we returned to the Imperial Theater of Guidonia, where at 8.30 pm today, there will be the final evening open to the public.
Fifty opera singers from all over the world performed in the preliminary and semi-final rehearsals to arrive this evening at the gala final evening, in the form of a concert. During the evening, the actress Francesca Valtorta will present the prizes to the winners and there will be a short screening describing the mezzo-soprano to whom the competition is dedicated, Jole De Maria, who died of cancer; precisely to help all the people who suffer from this pathology, funds will be raised for cancer research.
The Arcipelago cultural association, organizer of the opera competition, President Eleonora Vicario, has had as its primary aim, since its foundation in 2001, the fight against this disease and for this reason it was rewarded with a medal sent by the President of the Republic.
For having stimulated the knowledge of opera music, a precious asset that is envied all over the world and which has become an intangible heritage of UNESCO, the opera competition has received the high patronage of the European Parliament, the patronage of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, that of the Senate and that of various Municipalities.
Over the years the Jury has been made up of illustrious figures from the musical world such as Katia Ricciarelli, soprano, Janos Acs, conductor, Renato Bruson, baritone, Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz, soprano, Cristiano Sandri, artistic director of the Teatro Regio of Turin, Giorgio Gatti, baritone, Roberto Scandiuzzi, bass, Giuseppe Sabbatini, tenor and conductor, Stefano Valanzuolo, journalist and music critic, Giovanna Casolla, soprano, Peter Heilker, Castingdirector of the MusikTheater of Vienna, Marcello Lippi, baritone, Ines Salazar, soprano, Bruna Baglioni, mezzo-soprano, Maurilio Manca, Artistic Coordinator of Theaters in Puglia, Alberto Paloscia, musicologist and artistic consultant, Fabio Armiliato, tenor, Michele Suozzo, music critic and teacher of music history and many opera agents who have taken numerous singers into respective agencies. Artistic director of the opera competition is the mezzo-soprano Irene Bottaro.
Many of our winners today sing in the most important theaters in the world.
*Press release
