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Carmela Altamura before announcing winners of the Altamura/Caruso International Voice Competition

Welcome to the Altamura/Caruso International Voice Competition!

Since 1988, we’ve been holding our bi-annual international voice competition for young artists on the threshold of an international career. Each competition has produced memorable winners, and many, such as baritone Kim Josephson, tenor James Valenti, and soprano Angela Brown, have gone on to perform lead roles in the world’s major opera houses such as La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera. The revered mezzo soprano, Giulietta Simionato, presided over our very first jury, along with the competition’s founder, soprano Carmela Bucceri Altamura. Other well-known jurors have included Marcello Abbado, Licia Albanese, Karel Mark Chichon, Michael Frittum and Carolina Segrera-Holden.

Below, you might like to read letters from recent competition winners.

Please check back with us early next year for an application and more information about the 2010 competition. Buona fortuna to all!


Inter-Cities is always happy to share good news from soprano Audrey Luna, one of our past competition winners. Below is a recent letter from Audrey, our first-place 2006 Competition winner. Read it and smile with us:

Letter from Audrey Luna

Happy New Year!

It’s been a while since I last updated everyone so I thought I would share some new developments. I have been so happy since signing with my agent, Herbert Barrett Management, this past spring. They are really great people who I trust and in whom have confidence.

Love,
Audrey

And from Nili Riemer, our second-place winner, we share her good news:

Letter from Nili Riemer

Dear Friends at the Altamura Foundation,

It has been a while since I updated everyone about recent news and upcoming seasons. Your generous support of young artists has been a major factor in my ability to pursue a professional opera career, and I want to thank you and also let you know of some wonderful opportunities that I have been involved with. I recently signed with my first management company, Guy Barzilay Artists, who will be representing me worldwide. I am very happy to work with this dynamic office of professionals who believe in my future career.

I thank you for your continued support, and I hope to continue to share good news in the future.

Very sincerely,
Nili Riemer


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