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Last week the annual world renowned Viennese competition, Hans Gabor Belvedere, completed it’s final round with some dramatic results.
The 28th international Belvedere opera competition received around 3,000 singers for the qualifying rounds that took place in nearly 50 cities around the world. This has been whittled down to 143 singers for the Vienna finals.
Pretty Yende [...]

This is certainly a week of firsts. No I’m not talking about the first black American president, or the fact that I stopped introducing myself as Canadian to Europeans (why?).
I’m referring to the historic event this week at La Scala. According to “Der Standard” newspaper, for the first time in the history of this venue, [...]