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International Adam Didur Opera Singers’ Competition
About this Competition
The Competition auditions, open to the public, shall take place in three stages, two sessions per day:
Stage I: 1st and 2nd April 2019, 10am – 2pm and 4pm – 9pm April 2019, 10am – 2pm and 3pm – 5pm in the Academy of Music in Katowice,
Stage II: 3rd and 4th April 2019, 11am – 2pm and 4pm – 8pm in the Silesian Opera in Bytom,
Stage III: 6th April 2019, 11am – 2pm and 6pm – 9pm in the Silesian Opera in Bytom.
The year 2019 will mark the 40th anniversary since the 1st National Adam Didur Opera Singers’ Competition was organised by the Silesian Opera in Bytom. The current edition is a truly exceptional and jubilee event - it is the tenth edition in the whole history of the Competition and it is the fourth international one.
We return after a seven-year-long break as the last competition took place in 2012. The first edition was organised in 1979. It was Napoleon Siess, at that time the director of the Silesian Opera in Bytom, who came up with the original idea. With the encouragement of Tadeusz Kijonka (then the literary director) and Zygmunt Folga (who would become the first director of the Competition), Siess presented the idea of organising a national cyclical competition for opera singers to the ministerial authorities.
The event was named after Adam Didur, the first director of the Silesian Opera, maestro of opera stages, teacher and founder of the Silesian opera stage.
The aim of the competition was to present and promote young talented opera singers, to select the most promising ones, to continue organising the event in the Silesian Opera and to promote the vocal art among the subsequent generations of opera lovers.