Jury

• Tugan Sokhiev – Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia
• Farhad Badalbayli – Rector of the Baku Academy of Music
• Tamas Bator – Chief Artistic Advisor of the Müpa Budapest
• Virginio Fedeli – President, Lyric Advisor, International Singers Manager of the Atelier Musicale international
• Rico Förster – Director of Agentur Rico Förster
• Prof. Hans-Joachim Frey – Artistic Director of “Sirius” – Foundation “Talent and Success”
• Alexandr Gussev – Opera Manager
• Alexander I. Groissboeck – Opera Singer
• Andrey Petrov – Owner of the ArtMaks Kulturreisen Agency (Braunschweig)
• Prof. Ariane Hollaender-Calix – Owner and CEO of the HOLLAENDER-CALIX International Artists Agency
• Emmanuel Hondré – General Director of the Opéra de Bordeaux
• Kalle Kanttila – Director & Artist Manager of the International Opera Artists (IOA) Management
• Plamen Kartaloff – Director of the Sofia National Opera and Ballet
• Constanze Könemann – Founder of the Artist Management Agency Baden Baden CANTO+
• Makvala Kasrashvili – Opera Singer, People’s Artist of USSR, Assistant to the Chief Conductor – Musical Director of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia
• Anton Lubchenko – Conductor
• Jose Antonio Mendez Padron – Conductor / Intendant of the Orquesta del Lyceum de La Habana
• Marina Meshcheriakova – First prize award winner of the First Competition “Competizionе dell’Opera” in 1996, Opera singer, Honored Artist of Russia
• Guy Montavon – General Director of the Theater Erfurt
• KS Kurt Rydl – Opera Singer
• Daniel Serafin – Artistic Director of Opera Festival in St. Margarethen (Oper im Steinbruch St. Margarethen)
• Bettina Volksdorf – Redactor of the Music Theater Division of MDR Kultur
• Dr. Alard von Rohr – Managing Director of the A-Pro Just Classics! GmBH