The Bidu Sayão International Vocal Competition is a singing competition held at the city of Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...

 in Brazil named after that country's most famous opera singer, Bidu Sayão

Bidu Sayão

Bidú Sayão was a Brazilian opera soprano. One of Brazil's most famous musicians, Sayão was a leading artist of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1937 to 1952.-Life and career:...

. It is a competition for up-and-coming young singers and as such has an age restriction, currently open to singers of any nationality. The competition is divided between male and female participants and is the most important vocal competition in Latin America.

The competition has an international jury composed of conductors, artistic directors from international Opera Houses

Opera house

An opera house is a theatre building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building...

 and musicologists. The competition was created in 1999 by Mr. Cleber Papa, opera producer and its President

List of winners

Name	Voice type	Country	Prize	Competition place and year
Eduardo Itaborahy	tenor Tenor The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...	1st Prize	2000, Belém do Pará
Daniel Lee Daniel Lee Daniel Lee may refer to:*Daniel Curtis Lee , American actor*Daniel Armand Lee , South Korean hip hop artist, songwriter and lyricist*Danell Lee , winner of the second season of Malaysian Idol...	baritone Baritone Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...	Corea Corea Corea may refer to:*Korea, the term for the civilization and culture composed currently of two countries, for which Corea is an alternate spelling in many languages other than English**Korean Peninsula, the land area which Korea occupies...	2nd Prize	2000, Belém do Pará
João Augusto O' de Almeida	tenor	Brazil	3rd Prize	2000, Belém do Pará
Gabriella Pace	soprano Soprano A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...	Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	1st Prize	2000, Belém do Pará
Marilda Costa	soprano	Brazil	2nd Prize	2000, Belém do Pará
Alpha de Oliveira	soprano	Brazil	3rd Prize	2000, Belém do Pará
Orival Bento Gonçalves	bass Bass (voice type) A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...	Brazil	1st Prize	2001, Belém do Pará
Manuel Alvares	baritone	Brazil	2nd Prize	2001, Belém do Pará
André Vidal	tenor	Brazil	3rd Prize	2001, Belém do Pará
Carmem Monarcha	soprano	Brazil	1st Prize	2001, Belém do Pará
Marília Vargas	soprano	Brazil	2nd Prize	2001, Belém do Pará
Lílian Souza Assumpção	soprano	Brazil	3rd Prize	2001, Belém do Pará
Rodolfo Giugliani	baritone	Brazil	1st Prize	2002, Belém do Pará
Miguel Geraldi	tenor	Brazil	2nd Prize	2002, Belém do Pará
Federico Sanguinetti	baritone	Uruguay Uruguay Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...	4th Prize	2002, Belém do Pará
Flávio Mathias	bass	Brazil	5th prize	2002, Belém do Pará
Denise de Freitas	mezzo-soprano Mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...	Brazil	2nd Prize	2002, Belém do Pará
Lys Nardoto	soprano	Brazil	3rd Prize	2002, Belém do Pará
Guiomar Milan	soprano	Brazil	4th Prize	2002, Belém do Pará
Ewandro Cruz Stenzowski	tenor	Brazil	Prêmio Estímulo	2002, Belém do Pará
Luciano Botelho	tenor	Brazil	Prize "Estímulo"	2002, Belém do Pará
Homero Velho	baritone	Brazil	Audience Prize	2002, Belém do Pará
Guilherme Pires Rosa	baritone	Brazil	1st Prize	2003, Belém do Pará
Leonardo Pace	baritone	Brazil	2nd Prize	2003, Belém do Pará
Carlos Rodriguez Carlos Rodríguez Carlos Rodríguez may refer to:* Carlos Rodriguez , president of the Central Union of Workers, Colombia* Carlos Manuel Rodríguez , beatified Puerto Rican Catholic pastor...	baritone	Brazil	3rd Prize	2003, Belém do Pará
Adriana Clis	mezzo-soprano	Brazil	1st Prize	2003, Belém do Pará
Helen Donaldson Helen Donaldson Helen Donaldson is an Australian opera singer best-known for her performances of the heroines in Gilbert and Sullivan operas.-Biography:...	soprano	Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	2nd Prize & Audience Prize	2003, Belém do Pará
Rosana Marcela Schiavi	soprano	Argentina Argentina Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...	3rd Prize	2003, Belém do Pará
Felipe Oliveira	baritone	Brazil	Prize "Revelação"	2003, Belém do Pará
Leniza Menna Barreto	soprano	Brazil	Prize "Estímulo"	2003, Belém do Pará
Madalena Aliverti	soprano	Brazil	Scholarship “Maria Helena Coelho Cardoso”	2003, Belém do Pará
Bruno Ribeiro Bruno Ribeiro Bruno Miguel Fernandes Ribeiro is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a left midfielder.His main asset was a powerful left-foot strike, and he spent most of his career playing for local Vitória Futebol Clube, also having a small abroad spell in England.-Club career:After making his...	tenor	Portugal Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...	1st Prize	2004, Belém do Pará
David Marcondes	baritone	Brazil	2nd Prize	2004, Belém do Pará
Marcos Liesenberg	tenor	Brazil	3rd Prize	2004, Belém do Pará
Luciana Melamed	soprano	Brazil	1st Prize	2004, Belém do Pará
Sandra Medeiros	soprano	Portugal	2nd Prize	2004, Belém do Pará
Virgínia Cavalcanti	mezzo-soprano	Brazil	Audience Prize & Prize "Canção"	2004, Belém do Pará
Alexander de Paula	baritone	Brazil	Prize "Estímulo"	2004, Belém do Pará
Thiago Arancam Thiago Arancam Thiago Arancam is an Italian-Brazilian lirico spinto tenor.He graduated from the La Scala Academy in 2007. In 2008, he won three prizes at Operalia.-Biography and career:...	tenor	Brazil	Prize "Revelação"	2004, Belém do Pará
Luciana Melamed	soprano	Brazil	Prize Orquestra Unisinos	2004, Belém do Pará
Antônio Wilson Antonio Wilson Antonio Demarcus Wilson Antonio Demarcus Wilson Antonio Demarcus Wilson (born December 29, 1977 in is a former American football linebacker who played in the National Football League from 2000 to 2002. He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the fourth round of the 2000 NFL Draft. He played...	tenor	Brazil	Scholarship “Maria Helena Coelho Cardoso”	2004, Belém do Pará
Marconi Araújo	countertenor Countertenor A countertenor is a male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of a contralto, mezzo-soprano, or a soprano, usually through use of falsetto, or far more rarely than normal, modal voice. A pre-pubescent male who has this ability is called a treble...	Brazil	1st Prize & Prize "Revelação"	2005, Belém do Pará
Geilson Santos	tenor	Brazil	3rd Prize	2005, Belém do Pará
Bárbara Llanes	soprano	Cuba Cuba The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...	2nd Prize	2005, Belém do Pará
Cláudia Azevedo	soprano	Brazil	3rd Prize	2005, Belém do Pará
Giancarlo Barbieri	tenor	Brazil	Audience Prize	2005, Belém do Pará
Manuela Freua	soprano	Brazil	Prize "Estímulo" & Prize "Canção"	2005, Belém do Pará
Phoenix Luz	soprano	Brazil	Joungest Singer Prize	2005, Belém do Pará
Diana Daniel	mezzo-soprano	Brazil	Special Prize of the Jury	2005, Belém do Pará
Ji-Min Park	tenor	South Korea South Korea The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...	1st Prize	2006, Belém do Pará
Leonardo Neiva	baritone	Brazil	2nd Prize & Prize "Canção"	2006, Belém do Pará
David Marcondes	baritone	Brazil	3rd Prize & Audience Prize	2006, Belém do Pará
Maria Luisa Freitas	mezzo-soprano	Portugal	1st Prize	2006, Belém do Pará
Vanessa Bertolini	soprano	Brazil	2nd Prize	2006, Belém do Pará
Maira Lautert	soprano	Brazil	3rd Prize	2006, Belém do Pará
Nadja Sousa	soprano	Brazil	Prize "Revelação"	2006, Belém do Pará
Isabela Santos	soprano	Brazil	Joungest Singer Prize	2006, Belém do Pará
Antonio Wilson Antonio Wilson Antonio Demarcus Wilson Antonio Demarcus Wilson Antonio Demarcus Wilson (born December 29, 1977 in is a former American football linebacker who played in the National Football League from 2000 to 2002. He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the fourth round of the 2000 NFL Draft. He played...	tenor	Brazil	Prize "Estímulo"	2006, Belém do Pará
Yuri Jaruskevicius	baritone	Brazil	2nd Prize	2008, Belo Horizonte
Boris Azarian	bass-baritone	Brazil	3rd Prize	2008, Belo Horizonte
Ariadne Oliveira	mezzo-soprano	Brazil	2nd Prize & Prize "Canção"	2008, Belo Horizonte
Carla Domingues	coloratura soprano Coloratura soprano A coloratura soprano is a type of operatic soprano who specializes in music that is distinguished by agile runs and leaps. The term coloratura refers to the elaborate ornamentation of a melody, which is a typical component of the music written for this voice...	Brazil	3rd Prize	2008, Belo Horizonte
Carlos Eduardo Vieira	baritone	Brazil	Male Audience Prize	2008, Belo Horizonte
Carolina Rennó	mezzo-soprano	Brazil	Female Audience Prize	2008, Belo Horizonte
Bianca Pignataro	soprano	Brazil	Prize "Estímulo"	2008, Belo Horizonte
Cristiano Rocha	bass-baritone	Brazil	Best male opera singer	2008, Belo Horizonte
Ludmilla Bauerfeldt	soprano	Brazil	Best female opera singer	2008, Belo Horizonte

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