Panorama City soprano triumphs

Nicole Cabell, a 27-year-old soprano from Panorama City, has won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition in Wales. On Sunday, Cabell -- a recent graduate of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists, the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s training program -- was presented with a trophy and a check for 10,000 pounds (about $18,000) by opera veteran Joan Sutherland, the competition’s patron.

Previous winners have included soprano Karita Mattila and baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Cabell will sing at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago on July 21 and Aug. 21.

British tenor Andrew Kennedy, a 28-year-old member of the Vilar Young Artists program at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, won the Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize in a competition that ended Friday. In 1989, baritone Bryn Terfel won that award, then called the Lieder Prize.

Korean soprano Ha-Young Lee, also a member of the Vilar Artists program, won the audience award. According to the North Wales Daily Post, the competition’s website was flooded with complaints that Lee, 30, had not made the finals.

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Chris Pasles