BBC Cardiff Singer, Grand Final
Nadine Koutcher
© Brian Tarr
St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 21st June 2015
Cardiff Castle hosted an entertaining bout of medieval jousting yesterday afternoon, but in the evening all eyes and ears turned to the vocal jousting in St David’s Hall. The BBC Cardiff Singer of the World had reached its Grand Final, five singers battling it out for the main prize. None of our riders was unseated in displays never less than creditable, yet did the judges reach the right conclusion? In awarding the laurels to Belarusian soprano Nadine Koutcher, rather than audience favourite Amartuvshin Enkhbat, I don’t believe they did.
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