Swr Junge Opernstars 2023 by Various, sáb. 21 ene 2023, De (2023/2023), Director Valentin Uryupin, Jugendstil-Festhalle, Landau, Alemania

The promotion of highly gifted people was important to Emmerich Smola, the founder and long-time conductor of the then SWF radio orchestra, who died in 2011. In 2004, while he was still personally involved, the SWR created the Emmerich Smola Promotional Prize. Since then, as part of the "SWR Young Opera Stars" competition, three young singers with stage experience have competed for the highly endowed audience prize and - now for the third time - for the DRP Orchestra Prize. The subsequent prizewinners' concert in the Fruchthalle Kaiserslautern confirms Smola's unshakable trust in the competence of the audience every year: "The verdict of the audience", according to Emmerich Smola in an SWR interview, "cannot actually be surpassed by a jury of musical experts. I don't think there is a more accurate measurement." Valentin Uryupin is at the lectern. The Russian conductor brings with him a great deal of experience in both the symphonic and operatic fields. In the pre-Christmas program of the Frankfurt Opera, he last drew attention in "The Sorceress" - the "great operatic thriller" by Peter Tchaikovsky - by increasing "the drama and brilliance of the orchestra to an impressive and exciting finale", as reported in the press read was. The originally announced conductor Marc Piollet had to cancel the conducting for health reasons.