Participants

1973 PARTICIPANTS AS OF SEMI FINALS

 

Demi Finals on September 6 (sopranos, bassos) / September 7, 1972 (altos/mezzos, tenors)

Finals on Saturday, September 8, 1973 *

* Underscore = finalist; fat = Prize winner

SOPRANOS

Nora Bostaph

(USA)
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Miriam Bowen 
(USA)
Miriam Bowen
June Chappell 
(UK)
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Adrienne Csengery
(HU)
Adrienne Csengery
Zeljazka Dimova
(BUL)
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Krystyn Hanson
(USA)
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Mariette Kemmer
(LUX)
Mariette Kemmer
Ursula Meister 
(GE)
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Mihaela Mijea-Anastase 
(RO)
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Maria Novak
(USA)
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Cornelia Pop
(RO)
Cornelia Pop
Jan Redick
(USA)
Jan Redick
Jutta Ringehahn
(GDR)
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Ursula Schwabel
(AUSTRIA)
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Hiroko Shiraishi
(JAP)
Hiroko Shiraishi
Iwa Sörenson
(SWE)
Iwa Sorenson
Elaine Watts
(UK)
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ALTOS/MEZZOS

Vibeke Bjelke

(ms – DAN)
Vibeke Bjelke

Penka Dilova

(ms – BUL)
Penka Dilova

Elise Galama

(ms – N)
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Judith Quine

(UK)
Florentina Giurca

Margaret Pettengill 

(USA)
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Brenda Quilling
(ms – USA)

 Brenda Quilling

Stefania Toczyska 
(ms – POL)
Stefania Toczyska
Carolyne (Carole) Walters

(alto – USA)
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TENORS

Josef Baert

(bt - BE)
Josef Baert

Wouter Goedhart

(NL)
Wouter Goedhart

Antonius Nicolescu

(RO)
Antonius Nicolescu

István Rozsos

(HU)
Istvan Rozsos

James Wagner

(USA)
James Wagner

Yoogae Yu
(KOR)
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BARITONES & BASSES

Lionel Fawcett

(bs – UK)
Lionel Fawcett

Motumu Itsuki

(bs – JAP)
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Miroslav Podalsky

(bt – CZ)
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Peter Tschaplik

(bb – GDR)

Peter Tschaplik

ACCOMPANISTS

Gérard van Blerk


Gerard van Blerk

Thom Bollen


Thom Bollen

 


CAREERS OF NON WINNERS

Fiorentina Giurca

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Among those who did not win a price at the 1973 IVC while also not having been noted in the press, Florentina Giurca stood out. Her fine international career suggests that she either arrived to the IVC Den Bosch just one or two years too early, or she was not in optima forma. She completed her vocal studies at the University of Music in Vienna with distinction. Further studies followed with Luigi Ricci and Giulietta Simionato in Rome and Florence, as well as Josef Greindl in Vienna. Still a student, she made her debut as Maddalena in Rigoletto and as Carmen at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt. Engagements have taken her to Lucerne, Basel, Linz, Hamburg, Kiel, Turin, Rome, the Vienna State Opera as well as the Volksoper, Theater an der Wien and the Raimund Theater Vienna, then also at the Liceu in Barcelona, and at the opera houses in Zurich and Graz. She also sang at the Salzburg Festival, the Festival Palace Schönbrunn, the Vienna Festival, the International Bruckner Festival in Linz, and she took part in radio and television recordings of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF. Since at leaast 1983, she appeared frequently at the City Theatre bern, wheihc became the basis of her career. In 1983 she was Krobyle there, in a rare staged performance of Richard Strauss’ Des Esels Schatten (televized and featured as a sample of her art here). Further Bern performances were in Bellini's La Sonnambula in 1987, Azucena in Il trovatore (a broadcast recording of her 1989 performance there exists, but the tape was too distorted to provide her ‘Stride la vampa’ here), Quickly in Falstaff , Adriana in Hans Gefors’ Clara, maid in Bernarda Albas Haus, Countess Nowalska in Der Bettelstudent, maid in Macbeth, Peronella in Boccaccio , Madelon in Andrea Chénier. In 2005 she was there Mama Lucia in Cavalleria rusticana in a cast with Agens Baltsa and Salvatore Licitra. In the same year she participated as Anfisa in Peter Eötvös’ Three Sisters.

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