About 1.200 young talents from 60 nations entered the "Neue Stimmen" competition in 2005.

Gérard Mortier (Chairman of the jury), Director of the Opéra National de Paris

Francisco Araiza, Kammersänger, Professor at the College of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart

Brian Dickie, General Director of the Chicago Opera Theater

Anthony Freud, General Director of Welsh NationalOpera, Chairman of Opera Europa, Director of the National Opera Studio in London, Chairman of the jury of the Cardiff Singer of the World competition 

Siegfried Jerusalem, Kammersänger, Director of the College of Music Nuremberg-Augsburg

Jürgen Kesting, Music Critic, Author

Gustav Kuhn, Conductor, President of theTyrolean Festival Erl, Director of the Accademia di Montegral

Bernd Loebe, General Director of the Opera Frankfurt

Edith Mathis, Kammersängerin, Professor at the College of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Edith Wiens, Concert Singer, Professor at the College of Music Nuremberg-Augsburg and the College of Music and Theatre Munich