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Performance on 3 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World - the Final

BBC Radio 3
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Petroc Trelawny and lain Burnside introduce the climax of this year's competition from
St David 's Hall, Cardiff. Moldova, Uruguay and Serbia and Montenegro are among the 25 countries represented this year. Since its creation in 1983, the contest has produced a host of world-class singers, including Karita Mattila, Katarina Karneus , Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Bryn Terfel. This year's winner will receive F10,000, plus engagements with Welsh National Opera and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, who accompany the five finalists tonight. Television coverage of this final is on BBC2 at 6.30pm

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St David
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Katarina Karneus
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Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Source: Radio Times

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