The special jury for the National and International Preliminary Rounds will decide which singers are to be admitted to the Quarter Finals.
The International Jury will take over all adjucatorial tasks from that moment and will award the following prizes: the Prize of the City of ’s-Hertogenbosch (the First Prize), the Arleen Auger All-Round Prize, the Margie Weideman Song Prize, the Opera Prize, the Toonkunst Oratorio Prize, the Prize of the Province of North Brabant for the best candidate under 25 years of age and the Dutch Composition Prize.
The Jury will also recommend candidates for the Händel Vereniging’s Engagement Prize and the Vrienden van het Lied Prize as well as selecting the voice and piano duos that will take part in the Elly Ameling Song Course.
International Jury
The International Jury will consist of the renowned singers Nelly Miricioiu (soprano), Peter Schreier (tenor / conductor) and Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), Arnold Alons (casting Opera Toulouse and Santiago de Chile), Peter de Caluwe (intendant La Monnaie Brussels), Hein Mulders (artistic administration De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam and future intendant of the Aalto-Musiktheater, Essen).
The jury will be chaired by Ioan Holender (former intendant of the Vienna State Opera), one of the leading managers of the operatic world and currently an advisor to the Metropolitan Opera and other great opera houses.
Candidates will be judged on musicality, understanding of style, choice of repertoire, quality of voice, presentation, intonation and potential.
The Preliminary Rounds in ’s-Hertogenbosch on 17, 18 and 19 September 2012 will be adjudicated by a jury made up of Lenneke Ruiten (soprano / First Prize IVC 2002), Miranda van Kralingen (soprano / artistic director Opera Zuid), Mary King (mezzo-soprano / teacher / BBC commentator), Eline de Kat (casting Opéra de Monaco), Boris Ignatov (casting Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp). The Jury will be chaired by Annett Andriesen (mezzo-soprano / teacher / director of the IVC).
Candidates will be judged on voice, technique, musicality, presentation, intonation and potential.
The Preliminary Rounds in Amsterdam on 5 and 6 November 2011 were adjudicated by a jury made up of Roberta Alexander (soprano and teacher at Codarts Rotterdam), Marion van den Akker (mezzo-soprano / programmer / teacher at the Prins Claus Conservatory in Groningen), Hein Meens (tenor / pianist / conductor / coach), Nicolas Mansfield (tenor / artistic adjunct Nationale Reisopera, Enschede), Boris Ignatov (casting Vlaamse Opera Antwerp) and Martin Wright (baritone / artistic director of the chorus of De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam). The Jury was chaired by Annett Andriesen (mezzo-soprano / teacher / director of the IVC).
Press Jury
TBA
Young Persons’ Jury
The Young Persons’ Jury will consist of students from the Fontys Conservatorium in Tilburg and pupils from St. Jans College.
