By mid-June, the list of singers selected in the Preliminary Round Auditions that will move on to the Semifinal Round of the Competition will be published in this section.

Semifinals

Final concert

Saturday September 8th – 20.30 hs. at Teatro Colón

Four contestants will be selected by the Jury in the Semifinal Round for the Final Round of the Teatro Colón International Singing Competition. Such event will take in a public concert with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires conducted by Enrique Arturo Diemeche. The Final Round will take place Saturday, September 8th at 20.30 at the Teatro Colón.

Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra

The Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires is the first official symphonic orchestra of Buenos Aires. Created in 1946 with the name “Orquesta Sinfónica del Teatro Municipal”, it was conducted initially by maestros Lamberto Baldi and Jaime Pahissa. Eleven years after its first concert, the orchestra gained permanent residence at Teatro Colón and changed its name to the one it preserves today: Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires.

Since then, the Filarmónica has managed to construct a repertoire that entails diverse musical languages and expressions that join together argentine composers with others from different epochs and latitudes.

Among the prominent directors and soloists that have performed with the Filarmónica are Martha Argerich, Sir Thomas Beecham, Alfred Brendel, Aaron Copeland, Alfred Cortot, Paco de Lucía, Plácido Domingo, Friedrich Gulda and David Oistrakh.

The Filarmónica has also played on several prestigious stages, such as the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, the Barbican Center in London, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, among others.

Enrique Arturo Diemecke (Director)

Enrique Arturo Diemecke is one of Argentina’s most distinguished orchestra conductors. Since late 2007, he has been the Music Director of the Teatro Colon’s Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra (Argentina).

Previously, he was the Artistic Director of the Flint Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México, and the Long Beach Symphony. He is regularly guest director in prestigious orchestras such as Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France. He has also directed some of the most prominent soloists of our time, such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Plácido Domingo, Jessye Norman, Deborah Voigt, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma, among others.

He has recorded extensively with several labels winning, in 2010, the Grand Prix of the Académie du Disque Lyrique in 2010 (France) for his Opera Recording of Jules Massenet’s Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame.