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.
GRADUATES' COMPETITION
9 TO 11 JANUARY 2026
Day ticket: € 10,-
WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO THE ROTARY CLUB VIENNA – PRINZ EUGEN AND OPERABASE
GRADUATE COMPETITION PRIZES
Winner
€ 2.000,-
Runner-up
€ 1.000,-
Third place
€ 500,-
Audience prize
one year's free membership of Operabase
Graduates
WHAT OUR GRADUATES DID NEXT...
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:
24/25 Titorelli in Der Prozess (KaO) and Lopez in Die Verlobung im Kloster (TAW)
Ilyà Dovnar:
24/25 singer in Combattimenti (KaO) and in Bravissimo! and Tanzmeister in Das Spitzentuch der Königin (TAW)
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:
Taken on by Tscherne Artists Management, ensemble member at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, 24/25 Clotilde in Norma (TAW)
Alois Mühlbacher:
24/25 Narciso in Agrippina at Opernhaus Zürich, 25/26 Vincent in Ich bin Vincent! (TAW), and singer in Medea (KaO)