The year 2019 will mark the 40th anniversary since the 1st National Adam Didur Opera Singers’ Competition was organised by the Silesian Opera in Bytom. The current edition is a truly exceptional and jubilee event - it is the tenth edition in the whole history of the Competition and it is the fourth international one.
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The 1st Adam Didur Opera Singers’ Competition was held in the Silesian Opera in Bytom in 1979 and was the first competition in Poland devoted exclusively to opera singers. The participants were evaluated by Stefania Wojtowicz, Jerzy Artysz, Antoni Majak, Bogdan Paprocki, BognaSokorska, Natalia Stokowacka, Krystyna Szczepańska, Napoleon Siess – then the director of the Silesian Opera, and Zygmunt Latoszewski, one of the co-founders of the Competition and the president of the jury.
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