site.btaPolish Tenor Adam Walasek Wins Second The Voice of Kamen Competition

Adam Walasek from Poland won first place in the second international competition for young tenors “The Voice of Kamen”, said the Stara Zagora State Opera which hosted the event. Oleg Lanovyi from Ukraine took second place and Donghyun Kim from South Korea took third place.

The awards were presented on Tuesday after a gala concert of the seven tenors who reached the third stage of the competition. All participants were assessed by a jury chaired by Argentinian tenor, conductor and composer Jose Cura.

The prize of the audience went to winner Adam Walasek. The award of the Sofia Opera and Ballet went to Oleg Lanovyi from Ukraine. The award of the Stara Zagora State Opera went to Adrian Dumitru from Romania and the award of the Razgrad Symphonic Orchestra went to Andriy Voziyan.

The prize winners sang under the baton of Maestro Jose Cura and were accompanied by the orchestra of the Stara Zagora State Opera.

The second edition of the competition Voice of Kamen was organized by the Stara Zagora State Opera and the Kamen Chanev Foundation, with the assistance of the Board of Trustees of the Stara Zagora Opera and the National Culture Fund.

The first edition of the competition took place in Plovdiv in 2022. Its aim is to continue the ideas of Bulgarian tenor Kamen Chanev (1964-2020) about the essence of opera art.