{"id":19323,"date":"2026-11-01T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=19323"},"modified":"2026-11-05T16:45:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T21:45:39","slug":"tessa-mcqueen-wins-second-prize-and-birgit-nilsson-prize-at-operalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/tessa-mcqueen-wins-second-prize-and-birgit-nilsson-prize-at-operalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Tessa McQueen wins Second Prize and Birgit Nilsson Prize at Operalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soprano Tessa McQueen has won Second Prize and Birgit Nilsson Prize at the 2026 Operalia Competition which took place took place October 26-November 1 in Shanghai. The World Opera Competition was presented by Rolex and hosted by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Shangyin Opera House. For her the first round Tessa sang \u201cDich, teure Halle\u201d from Tannh\u00e4user and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aCLG4sn-KgI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cVissi d&#8217;arte\u201d from <em>Tosca<\/em><\/a> and \u201cAin&#8217;t It a Pretty Night\u201d from <em>Susannah<\/em> in the semifinal round. For the finals she revisited \u201cVissi d&#8217;arte\u201d in a stunning performance that wowed the judges and the crowd. Congratulations to all of the winners and participants of this grand operatic tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soprano Tessa McQueen has won Second Prize and Birgit Nilsson Prize at the 2026 Operalia Competition which took place took place October 26-November 1 in Shanghai. The World Opera Competition was presented by Rolex and hosted by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Shangyin Opera House. For her the first round Tessa sang \u201cDich, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/tessa-mcqueen-wins-second-prize-and-birgit-nilsson-prize-at-operalia\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7347,3705,7346,4440,7525,7008],"class_list":["post-19323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-competition","tag-opera","tag-operalia","tag-soprano","tag-tessa-mcqueen","tag-winner"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19326,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323\/revisions\/19326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/19325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}