Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award and Elizabeth Connell Prize Finals
Eleven singers from six countries will compete in the finals of the prestigious Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award and Elizabeth Connell Prize Finals, which have attracted singers from Australia, U.S.A. New Zealand, Netherlands, Italy and Latvia. They will compete for over $110,000 in prizes in the two competitions which will be hosted by Silvio…
Bel Canto And Elizabeth Connell Award Winners
The Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award for 2014 has been won by 27-year-old Marlena Devoe, a Samoan soprano from New Zealand singing Depuis le jour from Louise by Charpentier and Ah!non credea mirarti….Ah non giunge from Bellini’s La Sonnambula. Devoe has won $30,000 along with a place in the 2015 Georg Solti Accademia di Bel Canto in Tuscany, Italy…