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Masters of Lyrical Art "Magda Ianculescu"

magdaianculescu11.jpgThe National Opera House in Bucharest (NOB) organizes the 1st edition of the International Canto Competition "Masters of Lyrical Art", an extraordinary event which will take place between the 24th and the 29th of March 2009.  
 
The 1st edition of the competition is dedicated to the famos soprano Magda Ianculescu, who has proved her artistic skill by performing a vast repertoire on national and international stages, as one of the remarkable personalities of the second half of the 20th century. Each edition of the of the International Canto Competition "Masters of Lyrical Art" will be dedicated tp a famos artist of the Romanian lyrical stage.  
 
The competition aims at discovering and launching the best lyrical voices of the younger generation. Performers belonging to all categories can register in the competiton: singers, soloists or choire singers in musical institutions, students of Music Colleges, young talents professionally trained in Romania and abroad. Competitors aged between 20 and 32 (until the 31st of March 2009) are admitted in the contest.

The competition will consist of two eliminatory stages (with piano accompaniment), taking place in the NOB Yellow Foyer, and the final stage (with orchestra accompaniment), organized in the NOB performance hall. The prize awardings and the laureats’ concert will take place on Sunday, the 29th of March, in the hall of the National Opera House in Bucharest. 
For further details about this event, please access the attached Regulation.