Cardiff Singer: Saturday
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| 13:29 UK time, Saturday, 18 June 2011
The audience at St David's Hall was treated to a thrilling Song Prize Final last night. Coverage is on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Four tonight at 7.30pm and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 at 8pm.
If you don't want to know who won, DON'T click on this link.
See the Frockwatch gallery of the Song Prize Final.
Tomorrow is the grand final, with performances from singers by Olesysa Petrova from Russia, Andrei Bondarenko from Ukraine, Hye Jung Lee from South Korea, Meeta Raval from England and Valentina Nafornita from Moldova. Find out what is being sung.
The five 2011 finalists
Today, the finalists are rehearsing and some of the non-finalists are taking part in master classes with members of the jury.
Adam Walton
Bethan Elfyn
James McLaren
Laura Sinnerton
Comment number 1.
At 18th Jun 2011, petersbear wrote:At least the ´óÏó´«Ã½ has recognized the lieder prize after neglect since Bryn won it. I'm still thinking that the lieder prize would be better if it moved to Leeds and Cardiff was recognised as an opera competition only.
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Comment number 2.
At 19th Jun 2011, John Southern wrote:My wife nd I have enoyed the broadcasts on ´óÏó´«Ã½4 but I would have thought that with so many new chanels we could have been treated to the whole show each night.
Also
our TV sound ranges from 0 - 100 and we can usually watch at 35-40. But for these programmes we have had to turn up to 80-90. This probably distorts the sound and explains why we didn't appreciate some of the singers as much as the judges. Please rectify!
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