International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition

Next edition

No future edition is announced on the official pages we could check.

Overview

Belvedere is a long-running international competition for young opera singers, with qualifying rounds in many cities and final rounds in one host city each year. Operetta was added in 1988 and an accompanists competition in 2000; the official site notes these continue but not necessarily every year.

Organiser

Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition (Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition, Vienna-based)

Instruments

Voice, Opera, Operetta

Category

Opera & general voice

Jury & prizes

Jury

• 2026 Opera Jury: Rosemary Joshua, Viviana Barrios, Rosetta Cucchi, Dorothea Hartmann, Franziska M. Kaiser, Thomas Marshall, Hein Mulders, Nicola Raab, Christina Scheppelmann, Christoph Seuferle, Melissa Wegner. Media Jury: Axel Brüggemann, Martin Fichter-Wöß, Albert Garriga Puig, Inese Lūsiņa, Lauma Mellēna-Bartkeviča, Christophe Rizoud, Bo van der Meulen

Prizes

• 2026 (EUR): 1st 10,000; 2nd 5,000; 3rd 3,000; Prize of the Audience 1,500; Prize of the International Media-Jury 1,500; Hans Gabor Prize 800; Jane Carty Memorial Prize 500; Prize of Friends of the Competition 500

Past editions

• 2026 — Qualifying rounds in more than 50 cities worldwide; final rounds in Jūrmala, Latvia (Dzintari Concert Hall) source
• 2025 source
  1st prize Opera (per official winners page): Geon Kim (baritone/bass, South Korea)
• 2024 source
  1st prize Opera (per official winners page): Jungrae Noah Kim (baritone/bass, South Korea)