Bella Voce · round 2

Competition of the Kulturfonds Baden e.V. "Bella Voce" 

An event by Kulturfonds Baden e. V.

11:00 a.m. Floriane Petit, soprano (start number 3 in round 1)
Charles François Gounod (1818–1893)
La Reine de Saba
Plus grand dans son obscurité Aria of Balkis

Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)
La Forza del Destino
Pace, pace Aria of Leonora

11:15 a.m. Xiaocheng Wang, baritone (start number 5 in round 1)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) 
Don Carlo
Per me giunto - O Carlo Ascolta

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Don Pasquale
Bella siccome un angelo

11:30 a.m. Fan Yang, bass-baritone (start number 7 in round 1)
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Il barbiere di Siviglia
La calunnia è un venticello

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
La forza del destino
Abbietta zingara

11:45 a.m. Gerda Iguchi, mezzo-soprano (start number 8 in round 1)
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Carmen
Carmen's aria ‘Seguedille’

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
i Capuleti e i Montecchi
Aria of Romeo “Ascolta, se Romeo… La tremenda ultrice spada”

12:00 p.m. Laura Streckert, mezzo-soprano (start number 12 in round 1)
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Werther: Charlotte's aria ‘Va laisse couler...’

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Anna Bolena
Smeton's romance ‘Deh! non voler costringere’

12:15 p.m. Slavica Božić, contralto (start number 16 in round 1)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Samson et Dalila
Recitative ‘Samson, recherchant...’ and aria ‘Amour, viens aider ma faiblesse’

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Tancredi
Recitative ‘Oh patria...’ and aria ‘Di tanti palpiti’

Competition for students and contralto singers at music colleges in Baden

The Kulturfonds Baden e.V. Bella Voce competition will take place on 17 and 18 December 2025. Students of the Karlsruhe University of Music 
and female singers with alto voices 
from the HfM Karlsruhe, HfM Freiburg and HfM Mannheim universities are eligible to participate.

Students of the Karlsruhe University of Music are eligible to participate in all categories, as are female singers with alto voices from the Karlsruhe University of Music, Freiburg University of Music and Mannheim University of Music, exclusively for the special prizes for outstanding alto singers: the Anneliese Fried Prize for young singers and for advanced singers.

To the call for entries