Anastasiya Taratorkina rightly won first prize and the audience prize with a phenomenally flexible, precious soprano:

Every gesture and every little phrase of the snippy Norina from Gaetano Donizetti’s last opera Don Pasquale was spot on. The deadly pain of Mozart’s Pamina and the supposedly futile struggle for love of Anne Trulove from Igor Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress are touching.