NEUE STIMMEN October 21-27, 2007

About 1000 singers from 66 nations applied for NEUE STIMMEN 2007!

Prize Winner 2007

1. Prize Marina Rebeka

Lativia, soprano, *1980

2. Prize Fernando Javier Radó

Argentina, bass, *1986

3. Prize Diego Torre

Mexico, tenor, *1979

4. Prize Anita Watson

Australia, lyric soprano, *1980

5. Prize Yali Wang

China, soprano, *1981

6. Prize Christiane Karg

Germany, soprano, *1980

7. Prize Krenare Gashi

Kosovo, soprano, *1985

8. Prize Sung-Kon Kim

Korea, baritone, *1975

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 (Head of auditions), General Director of the Chicago Opera Theater

Nicholas Payne, Director Opera Europa

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

Jürgen Kesting, Music Critic, Author

Gustav Kuhn (Artistic Director), 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