New prize for singers

[subcontrabass]

New competition for opera singers: https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...ng-competition

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

These competitions do tend to annoy me. But if they do some good, the so be it.

[jean]

It's being discussed on Today (Radio 4) as I write, by Sebastian Schwartz and James Newby - 8.40 am:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08njv5y

[ahinton]

I heard the Today discussion. The reference to Mozart specialism brought to mind a sense that this doesn't seem an especially new concept; http://www.nationalmozart.com/ had been going for years, as is clear from http://www.nationalmozart.com/mozart...andpresent.php...