The Italian Songs and Arias Vocal Competition for Michigan
High School Students was started in 1995 and is held annually
in cooperation with the Italian American Cultural Society
of Clinton Township and the Italian American Club of Livonia
Charitable Foundation. This event is now recognized as the
state's top singing competition for high school classical
and opera vocalists. Past finalists of our competition,
such as baritones Scott Mac Leod and Carlton Ford, and soprano
Caitlin Lynch, are performing with opera companies in the
USA and abroad.
In addition, the Verdi Opera awards an annual prize to the University of Michigan
School of Music to assist voice students in furthering their studies in Italy.
Several recipients of the Verdi Opera Prize are singing with various opera
companies, and one, tenor Michael Fabiano, was a winner of New York's Metropolitan
Opera
National Council Auditions and has already performed leading roles at Milan's
La Scala as well as at the Metropolitan Opera and
other major opera houses.
"Spirate,
pur spirate",
a song by Stefano Donaudy
(Performed by a finalist of our 2009 vocal
competition)
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The 18th Annual Italian
Songs and Arias Vocal Competition
for Michigan High School Students
Please click on the links below to access the required forms
or information.
LETTER TO MUSIC TEACHERS
ENTRY FORM and RULES OF COMPETITION
Please note that there are two pages to this file.
LIST OF SCHOOLS (entries received and number of finalists)
REPERTORY
SAMPLE SHEET (listing of songs/arias & composers)
INFORMATIONAL
FLYER (to be posted on school bulletin board)
To be printed on standard size paper (8.5" x 11")
POSTER
To be printed on legal size paper (8.5" x 14")
Entries must be postmarked no later
than February 11, 2012.
Selection of the finalists for the competition will be completed
in early March 2012. All participants will be notified
of results in writing by March 26, 2012. The final competition
will be in the form of a live concert, The Concert
of the Finalists, with piano accompaniment, to be
held at the Italian American Cultural and Community Center,
43843 Romeo Plank
Rd. Clinton Twp, MI 48038 (Phone: 586-228-3030) on Sunday,
May 6, 2012 at 4:00 p.m.
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact
John Zaretti at verdiopera@comcast.net.
Verdi Opera Theatre of Michigan - Statue of Enrico Society
is a public supported organization, exempt from Federal
Income Tax under Section 501A of the Internal Revenue Code,
as an
organization described in section 501c3. Michigan number
784195. Federal number 38-2832282, letter 1045 (DO-CG)
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