Participants, prizes and engagements  
     
 

The competition is open to singers of all voices and all nationalities born after January 1, 1971. Fifty vocalists are invited to participate in the preliminaries. The repertoire will consist of the genres opera, lieder, oratorio, contemporary music and one work by Edvard Grieg.

PRIZES

1st prize: NOK 125,000 (c. USD 14 000)
2nd prize: NOK 75,000 (c. USD 8 000)
3rd prize: NOK 50,000 (c. USD 5 500)
3 finalistprizes: NOK 10,000 (c. USD 1 000)
Troldhaugen's Grieg Prize NOK 10,000 (c. USD 1 000)

CONCERT ENGAGEMENTS

The winner of the 1st prize will be offered engagements with the following Norwegian institutions:

- Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
- Norwegian Concert Institute
- Norwegian Radio Orchestra
- Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
- Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
- Trondheim Symphony Orchestra

The Norwegian Opera will offer one of the prize winners an engagement.

The artistic directors of the following Nordic institutions will be present and consider engagements for the finalists:

-The Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen
-The Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm
-Bergen International Festival

Edvard Grieg Museum offers a concert engagement for the winner of Troldhaugen's Grieg Prize.

 
     
 
 
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