In March, the Belvedere Singing Competition postponed the finals scheduled for the month of April to the fall 2020. Today the organizer announced that the final rounds have been cancelled. All singers who have already qualified will automatically be in the final rounds next year.
Also the qualification rounds still planned for this year were postponed to next year – with the exception of the qualifying rounds on 21st August in Irkutsk (Russia), on 4th September in Varazdin (Croatia), on 13th September in Zurich (Switzerland) and on 23rd September in Madrid (Spain). All these auditions will count towards the final rounds in 2021. So far 201 out of 619 already registered singers have participated in qualifying rounds in 20 (out of 70 planned) cities, 38 of them have already qualified.
Negotiations for a venue for the final rounds and the 2021 finals are still going on.
