{"id":11925,"date":"2023-09-05T13:49:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T13:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=11925"},"modified":"2023-09-05T13:50:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T13:50:55","slug":"american-contralto-wins-norways-queen-sonja-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2023\/09\/05\/american-contralto-wins-norways-queen-sonja-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"American Contralto Wins Norway&#8217;s Queen Sonja Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11927\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/Queen-Sonja-Singing-Competition_Jasmin-White-.jpg\" alt=\"Jasmin White\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/Queen-Sonja-Singing-Competition_Jasmin-White-.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/Queen-Sonja-Singing-Competition_Jasmin-White--300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/Queen-Sonja-Singing-Competition_Jasmin-White--1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/Queen-Sonja-Singing-Competition_Jasmin-White--768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contralto Jasmin White wins first prize at the Queen Sonja Competition (Photo courtesy of the competition)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Contralto Jasmin White has won first place at the 2023 Queen Sonja Competition, including a \u00a0\u20ac50,000 prize.<\/p>\n<h3>The Judges<\/h3>\n<p>The 2023 Queen Sonja Competition was judged by directors and administrators from the Norwegian Opera, Washington National Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, Opernhaus Z\u00fcrich, Theater an der Wien and the Dutch National Opera. Randi Stene, the jury director, shared that the panel was looking for an artist who was \u201cthe complete package,\u201d expressing that the competition had been very close.<\/p>\n<h3>The Winner<\/h3>\n<p>Jasmin White (who uses they\/them pronouns) wowed audiences with their performances of Erda\u2019s aria from Wagner\u2019s Das Rheingold, \u201cIris, Hence Away\u201d from Handel\u2019s Semele and Rossini\u2019s \u201cDi tanti palpiti\u201d from Tancredi.<\/p>\n<p>White made their Metropolitan Opera debut in Porgy and Bess in 2019 and is a current member of Vienna Volksoper\u2019s opera studio. They are a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and have recently been signed by IMG Artists. White looks forward to debuts with Teatro dell\u2019Opera di Roma and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and also recently took home second prize at Belgium\u2019s Queen Elisabeth Competition.<\/p>\n<p>Armenian baritone Aksel Daveyan won second place with \u20ac10,000, followed by German countertenor Nils Wanderer in third with \u20ac5,000. The remaining finalists included baritones Navasard Hakobyan and Vladyslav Tlushch, as well as mezzo-soprano Rebecka Wallroth.<\/p>\n<p>Hear White\u2019s captivating performance of Mahler\u2019s \u201cUrlicht\u201d in Brussels here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xgz8LtFaENI?si=4diYuniTXpXIE-pn\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contralto Jasmin White has won first place at the 2023 Queen Sonja Competition, including a \u00a0\u20ac50,000 prize. The Judges The 2023 Queen Sonja Competition was judged by directors and administrators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":11927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[86,34,3,80,233],"tags":[328,327],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/Queen-Sonja-Singing-Competition_Jasmin-White-.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11930,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925\/revisions\/11930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11925"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}