Department of Music

The adjudicators for this competition are: 
John Nevergall and Jennifer Cresswell  

 

Al chiaror di que’ bei rai, from Ascanio in Alba       W.A. Mozart 
Vidit suum dulcem natum, from Stabat Mater       G.B. Pergolesi 
Die Nacht       Richard Strauss 
St. Ita’s Vision Samuel Barber 

Hua Yu, soprano 
 
 
Caro Nome, from Rigoletto   G. Verdi 
Quia respexit humilitatem, from Magnificat    J.S. Bach 
Ich Schwebe   Richard Strauss 
A Piper           John Duke 

Charlie Johnson, soprano 
 
 

About the Competition 

The Barbara Rondelli Perry Competition for Superior Achievement for Superior Achievement in Classical Voice Performance is limited to graduate and undergraduate students who are majors or minors in the Classical Voice program of the University of Toledo. All music to be sung must be memorized. The competition will proceed with live piano accompaniment. Contestants must be prepared in the areas of opera, oratorio, art song in a foreign language and English, and must sing one selection from each of the four categories. Three languages must be presented. 

The scholarship awards are $1,500 for 1^st prize, $750 for second, and $500 for third. The judges, based on their professional evaluations of the competitors’ performances, may award 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd places to the contestants, or any numb4r less than the three places, or, in a highly unusual competition, declare that none of the competitors have measured up to the high standards expected.

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