International Vocal Competition 2018

Countertenor Jan Wouters (Belgium, 1993) performs ‘Pallido il sole’ from Johann Adolph Hasse’s Artaserse; ‘Ah, giacchè son tradito… Son reo’ from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Mitridate, re di Ponto; Sylvia Maessen’s ‘Oh, che tranquillo mar’; and ‘Welcome wanderer… I know a bank’ from Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2018 – Opera | Oratorio. This performance was recorded at Theater aan de Parade in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Mezzo-soprano Claire Barnett-Jones (United Kingdom, 1990) performs ‘Oh! La pitoyable aventure!’ from Maurice Ravel’s L’heure espagnole’; Sylvia Maessen’s ‘Oh, che tranquillo mar’; ‘Wo in Bergen du dich birgst’ from Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre; and ‘What a movie!’ from Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2018 – Opera | Oratorio. This performance was recorded at Theater aan de Parade in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Mezzo-soprano Katia Ledoux (France, 1990) performs ‘Ah, Tanya, Tanya… Jan ye sposobna k grusti tomnoi’ (Ah, Tanya, Tanya… I am not capable of languid sorrow) from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin; ‘Ah Scostati!… Smanie implacabili’ from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Così fan tutte; ‘Vois sous l'archet frémissant’ from Jacques Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann; Sylvia Maessen’s ‘Oh, che tranquillo mar’; and ‘Ich lade gern mir Gäste ein’ from Johann Strauss Jr.’s Die Fledermaus, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2018 – Opera | Oratorio. This performance was recorded at Theater aan de Parade in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Tenor Josh Lovell (Canada, 1991) performs Sylvia Maessen’s ‘Oh, che tranquillo mar’; ‘Languir per una bella’ from Gioacchino Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri; and ‘J’ai perdu mon Eurydice’ from Christoph Willibald von Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2018 – Opera | Oratorio. This performance was recorded at Theater aan de Parade in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Soprano Marie Perbost (France, 1989) performs ‘Quanti mi siete intorno… Padre, germani, addio!’ from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Idomeneo; ‘Mon père, il n’est pas d’incident si négligeable’ from Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues des carmélites; ‘Un bouquet!… Ah! Je ris’ from Charles-François Gounod’s Faust; and Sylvia Maessen’s ‘Oh, che tranquillo mar’, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2018 – Opera | Oratorio. This performance was recorded at Theater aan de Parade in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Soprano Maria Novella Malfatti (Italy, 1993) performs ‘Ach, ich fühl's, es ist verschwunden!’ from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte; ‘Caro nome’ from Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto; Sylvia Maessen’s ‘Oh, che tranquillo mar’; and ‘Uśnijcie, krwawe sny króla Rogera’ (Sleep, bloody dreams of King Roger) from Karol Szymanowski’s Król Roger, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2018 – Opera | Oratorio. This performance was recorded at Theater aan de Parade in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Soprano Thembinkosi Magagula (South Africa, 1992) performs ‘E pur così un giorno… Piangerò, piangerò la sorte mia’ from George Frideric Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto; Sylvia Maessen’s ‘Oh, che tranquillo mar’; and ‘No word from Tom… I go to him’ from Igor Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2018 – Opera | Oratorio. This performance was recorded at Theater aan de Parade in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Mezzo-soprano Leonie van Rheden (the Netherlands, 1989) performs ‘Dieu! Que viens-je d’entendre?… Il m’en souvient’ from Hector Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict; Sylvia Maessen’s ‘Oh, che tranquillo mar’; and ‘Sein wir wieder gut’ from Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2018 – Opera | Oratorio. This performance was recorded at Theater aan de Parade in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Soprano Aleksandra Jovanović (Serbia, 1990) performs Sylvia Maessen’s ‘Oh, che tranquillo mar’; ‘Uśnijcie, krwawe sny króla Rogera’ (Sleep, bloody dreams of King Roger) from Karol Szymanowski’s Król Roger; and ‘Ah! Non credea mirarti… Ah, non giunge…’ from Vincenzo Bellini’s La sonnambula, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2018 – Opera | Oratorio. This performance was recorded at Theater aan de Parade in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.