{"id":123049,"date":"2023-09-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=123049"},"modified":"2023-09-07T17:04:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T14:04:34","slug":"promfest-opera-festival-begins-in-parnu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/promfest-opera-festival-begins-in-parnu\/","title":{"rendered":"PromFest opera festival begins in P\u00e4rnu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Today, Sunday, September 10, sees the official beginning of the P\u00e4rnu opera festival &#8211; PromFest.<b> <\/b>The centerpiece of the festival is the Klaudia Taev singing competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The Klaudia Taev singing competition for young opera singers was started by musician and writer <strong>Toomas Kuter<\/strong> in 1996. He named the event after his own teacher, the legendary <strong>Klaudia Taev<\/strong>. Over the years, the event has grew larger, becoming the PromFest opera festival for the first time back in 2005.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\">This year\u2019s festival will begin with a performance of <strong>Jules Massenet&#8217;s<\/strong> opera Cinderella. Polish mezzo-soprano Zuzanna Nalewajek, winner of the 2021 Klaudia Taev competition, will star in the title role. On the same evening, the young singing talents participating in this year&#8217;s singing competition and their pianists will take to the stage.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The singing competitions held on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday will whittle down 36 competitors to just 6 finalists. Friday&#8217;s finale will determine the best opera singer of this year&#8217;s PromFest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">More detailed information about the festival and its full programme can be found on the official PromFest website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.promfest.ee\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">here<\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Today, Sunday, September 10, sees the official beginning of the P\u00e4rnu opera festival &#8211; PromFest. The centerpiece of the &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":122816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[291,14934,16614,19394,19395,19396,19397,19398],"class_list":["post-123049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-events","tag-opera","tag-classical-music","tag-festivals","tag-promfest-2","tag-opera-singing-competition","tag-toomas-kuter-2","tag-klaudia-taev-2"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123051,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123049\/revisions\/123051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}