Competition Programme

Contestants must perform a total of five different opera arias. By your own choice

There are two arias in the first round
There are two arias in the second round
Two arias in the third final round, one of which will be repeated from previous rounds and one new.

Arias by the following composers should be performed at the competition:

Italian music

Giuseppe Verdi
Giacomo Puccini
Vincenzo Bellini
Gaetano Donizetti
Pietro Mascagni
Gioachino Rossini
Umberto Giordano
Francesco Cilea
Alfredo Catalan
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Domenico Cimarosa
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Arrigo Boito
Amilcare Ponchielli
Luigi Cherubini

Austro-German music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Richard Wagner
Richard Strauss
Johann Strauss
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friedrich von Flotow
Carl Maria von Weber
Giacomo Meyerbeer

French music

Georges Bizet
Charles Gounod
Jules Massenet
Jacques Offenbach
Camille Saint-Saens
Léo Delibes
Gustav Charpentier
Jacques Fromental Halévy

Russian music

Peter Tchaikovsky
Modest Mussorgsky
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Anton Rubinstein
Mikheil Glinka
Alexander Borodin
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergey Taneyev
Dmitry Shostakovich

Georgian music

Zakaria Paliashvili
Otar Taktakishvili
Victor Dolidze
Dimitri Arakishvili
Revaz Laghidze
Bidzina Kvernadze
Gia Kancheli

Czech music

Antonin Dvorak

Hungarian music

Franz Lehar

American music

George Gershwin
Leonard Bernstein