Watch the 2023 Lotte Lenya Competition Finals

The Finals of the 25th Annual Lotte Lenya Competition brought twelve rising theatrical stars to Rochester’s Kilbourn Hall on 29 April 2023 to compete for a top prize of $25,000. The jury for the Finals included Dame Josephine Barstow CBE DBE, long recognized as one of the world’s leading singing actresses; Kyle Scatliffe, currently appearing in Hamilton on Broadway as Marquis de Lafayette / Thomas Jefferson and a 2010 Lenya Competition prizewinner; Ted Chapin, longtime President and CEO of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and co-founder of the Encores! series at City Center; and James Holmes, expert British conductor of opera and musical theater, with a long and brilliant track record especially in the works of Weill and Sondheim.

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