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