III International Virgilijus Noreika Competition for Singers

Mehmet Ali Tutar

Mehmet Ali Tutar (1988)

| Turkey

Baritone

Accompanist | Lina Giedraitytė

Mehmet Ali was born in 1988, in Mersin, Turkey. In 2009, he started his studies with Baritone Orhan Yıldız and won the Opera/Voice department of Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory in 2010. He won prize the Promising Young Soloist in the Cappuccilli Opera Competition in 2015. He won the 1st prize in the 19th Siemens Opera Competition in 2017 and made a contract with Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe in Germany, and many more. Currently, he is working in Antalya State Opera and Ballet. His most prominent roles include Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte), Counte Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Escamillo (Carmen), Belcore (L’elisir D’amore), Germont (La Traviata), etc.

I ROUND

  • Gaetano Donizetti | L'Elisir d'Amore
    • Belcore's cavatina "Come Paride vezzoso"
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Le Nozze di Figaro
    • Count Almaviva's aria "Hai gia vinta la causa"
  • II ROUND

  • Vincenzo Bellini | I Puritani
    • Riccardo's recitative and aria „Or dove fuggo io mai...Ah per sempre!”
  • Ambroise Thomas | Hamlet
    • Hamlet's aria "O vin, dissipe la tristesse"
  • III ROUND

  • Giuseppe Verdi | Don Carlos
    • Rodrigo's recitative and aria "O Carlo, ascolta… Io morrò, ma lieto in core"
  • Gioachino Rossini | Il Barbiere di Siviglia
    • Figaro's aria "Largo al factotum..."
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