Helene

From Berkeley Breathed: https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769/1005862456111174/?type=1&permPage=1

I can't tell from the website if tomorrow's Operalia finals are restricted (live) to medici.tv subscribers tomorrow,July 19 at 10am PT/1pm ET (from London): http://www.medici.tv/#!/operalia-2015 If so, then they should be available in the future. (Yesterday's opening concert from the Verbier Festival, ẃith Joyce DiDonato, was open.) There are 11 finalists from eight countries -- five sopranos, three tenors, two baritones, one bass-baritone -- down from 40 -- all five mezzos and the countertenor were cut -- and five of them three sopranos and to tenors ore the Zarzuela finalists. http://www.operaliacompetition.org/newsOperalia/detallenews/new/46 They are competing for 1st-3rd place, the Birgit Nilsson prizes (Wagner and R. Strauss rep) -- two, not gender-specific -- and Zarzuela prizes named for Domingo's parents, who were Zarzuela singers, and the (in-house) audience prizes --one for each gender -- and a Consulate Prize from Puerto Rico. All but the audience prizes, watches from sponsor Rolex, are cash: http://www.operaliacompetition.org/competition/prizes The Nilsson prize tends to have fewer competing for it, since most singers, especially at their ages, opt for Italian and French staples.