Jury

ARTISTICAL DIRECTOR OF THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL ADAM DIDUR OPERA SINGERS' COMPETITION.

He is a baritone of the world-wide renown. Soloist of the Silesian Opera, a graduate of the Academy of Music in Kraków.  He is a laureate of prestigious vocal competitions inter alia in Gütersloch (Neue Stimmen), Vienna (Belvedere), Munich (Grand Prix of the ARD Contest). He performs on the most famous world opera stages incl. in New York (the Metropolitan Opera), Milan (La Scala), Vienna (Wiener Staatsoper), Paris (Opéra Bastille), Brussels (La Monnaie), Amsterdam, Barcelona (Gran Teatre del Liceu), Los Angeles, Houston, Tokyo, Saint Petersburg, Berlin (Komische Oper, Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper), Munich, Hamburg, Leipzig, Cologne, Frankfurt, Zurich, Geneva, Lyon, Verona, and during Glyndebourne and Orange festivals.

Dean of the Faculty of Vocal and Acting at the Academy of Music in Katowice, singer, professor of art. Her artistic activity focuses on creating opera roles, vocal lyrics, and cantata-oratorio repertoire. She graduated from the Vocal and Acting Department of the Academy of Music in Katowice in the solo singing class of Jan Ballarin. She continued her vocal studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna under the guidance of Helena Łazarska. 

Casting Director TWON. Soprano. She studied at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw where she graduated with honours and was awarded the  Kazimierz Czekotowski prize. When she was a 3^rd year student she debuted in the National Theatre in Warsaw and after graduation she was employed there.  She sang the title part in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Roxana in King Roger by Szymanowski; Violetta in La traviata, Amelia in Masked Ball, Leonora in The Force of Destiny, Maira in Simone Boccanegra and Elvira in Ermani – all by G. Verdi; Marguerite in Faust by  Gounod; Micaëla in Carmen by Bizet; Sophie in The Knight of the Rose by R. Strauss; Mimi in La Boheme and Liu in Turandot by G. Puccini; Sophie in Werther by J. Massenet; Hanna in The Haunted Manor and Neala in Paria by S. Moniuszko; Maria in Mazepa by P. Tschaikovsky; Pamina in The Magic Flute, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Countess in The Marriage of Figaro by W. A. Mozar; Nedda in Pagliacci by R. Leoncavallo; Antonia in The Tales of Hoffmann by J. Offenbach; Elvira in The Italian Girl in Algiers by G. Rossini; Xenia in Boris Godunov by M. Musorgsky; Eve in Paradise Lost by K. Penderecki; Oriona in Amadigi and Romilda in Xerxes by G. F. Haendel; Freia in The Rheingold by R. Wagner; Aldona in The Lithuanians by A. Ponchielli.

Conductor. He is a regular guest at theaters like the Vienna State Opera and Paris Opera. Further engagements have taken him to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Opéra du Capitole Toulouse, Semperoper Dresden, Royal Opera House London, Opera Australia Sydney, Zurich Opera House, Theater an der Wien, Frankfurt Opera, Canadian Opera Company Toronto, Korean National Opera Seoul, Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg and the Hong Kong Arts Festival, among others. 

Ukrainian director, screenwriter, culturologist and a folk artist who rendered great service to the arts in Ukraine.  He was the Minister of Culture and Tourism in 2007-2010.  Since 2017 he has been the Artistic and General Director of the National Opera in Lviv.

Wasyl Wowkun has directed and produced over 350 cultural and artistic events: artistic shows, classical operas, religious and professional celebrations, folk actions, national and international contests and festivals, teenage mass actions, alternative concerts, days of Ukrainian culture and arts i.a. in Germany, France, China, Slovakia, Poland, Serbia, Georgia, Azerbaijan.