graduates

 

At our annual auditions, singers who have graduated from our CAMPUS partner universities can show off their talents to selected casting directors and opera directors from international opera houses and agencies. This initiative is bearing fruit: many of our graduates have been offered their first professional engagements this way (see below). After three successful years we are delighted that, thanks to the generous support of the Rotary Club Vienna – Prinz Eugen and Operabase, the graduate auditions are now being expanded into a graduates’ competition with a range of prizes. An expert jury chooses the first three winners, and your vote counts too when it comes to awarding the audience prize! Come and be part of it when the stars of tomorrow are discovered.

Graduiertenwettbewerb © Herwig Prammer

 
 

GRADUATES' COMPETITION

9 TO 11 JANUARY 2026

 

 

WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO THE ROTARY CLUB VIENNA – PRINZ EUGEN AND OPERABASE

 

 

WINNERS OF THE 2026 GRADUATE COMPETITION

 

1st Prize
€ 2.000,-

plus a one-year free Operabase membership

Beatriz Maia, Sopran (Portugal)
Theaterakademie August Everding München 
 

 

2nd Prize
€ 1.000,-

plus a one-year free Operabase membership

Salvador Sinão, Tenor (Portugal) 
Dutch National Opera Academy Amsterdam
 

 

3rd Prize
€ 500,-

plus a one-year free Operabase membership

Tara Cassan, Sopran (France)
Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien
 


Audience prize

One year's free membership of Operabase

Beatriz Maia, Sopran (Portugal)
Theaterakademie August Everding München

 

 

JURY GRADUATE COMPETITION

Adrian Eröd 

Head of Opera Studio,
Wiener Staatsoper

 

Susann Kalauka

Artistic Director,
Staatstheater Nürnberg

 

Maurice Lenhard

Head of Opera Studio,
Volksoper Wien

Cristiano Sandri

Artistic Director,
Teatro Regio Torino

 

Carolin Wielpütz

Artistic Director,
MusikTheater an der Wien

 

Evamaria Wieser

Casting Director,
Salzburger Festspiele

 

 

Other registered opera houses
 /opera studios/agencies:
Agentur Vladarski, ALL YOU NEED personal management nicolai, Beate I. Mennicken PR-Management artist communication, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf / Duisburg, Erzgebirgische Theater- und Orchester GmbH, Herbst Artists,Hollaender-Calix International Agency, IOAcademy, Königliche Oper Kopenhagen, Machreich Artists, Managing Artists con Brio, Oper Graz, Opernhaus Zürich, Reisopera, Salzburger Osterfestspiele, Sono Artists, Theater Chemnitz, Theater Detmold, Theater Heidelberg, Theater für Niedersachsen GmbH, Tscherne Artists Management, Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen/Gent, Volksoper Wien

 

 

Graduates

WHAT OUR GRADUATES DID NEXT...

 


Adrian Autard © Adrian Autard

Adrian Autard:

22/23 Belfiore in La finta giardiniera (KaO), 23/24 Benvolio in Roméo et Juliette (TAW), currently at the Vienna State Opera’s opera studio

 


Valentino Blasina © Shirley Suarez

Valentino Blasina:

24/25 Titorelli in Der Prozess (KaO) and Lopez in Die Verlobung im Kloster (TAW)

 

 

Ilya Dovnar © Ben Palchek

Ilyà Dovnar:

24/25 singer in Combattimenti (KaO) and in Bravissimo! and Tanzmeister in Das Spitzentuch der Königin (TAW)

 

 

Arielle Yuhyun Jeon © Arielle Yuhyun Jeon

Arielle Yuhyun Jeon:

22/23 Clizia in L’arbore di Diana (KaO), 23/24 substitute at short notice in Die stumme Serenade (KaO) and 24/25 in Der herzlose Riese (TAW)

 

 

Victoria Leshkevich © Victoria Leshkevich

Victoria Leshkevich:

Taken on by Tscherne Artists Management, ensemble member at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, 24/25 Clotilde in Norma (TAW)

 

 

Alois Mühlbacher © Alois Mühlbacher

Alois Mühlbacher:

24/25 Narciso in Agrippina at Opernhaus Zürich, 25/26 Vincent in Ich bin Vincent! (TAW), and singer in Medea (KaO)