Opera Star Power Comes Out For Cardiff SOTW Master Classes

The class of 2013: Singers from around the globe ready to compete for a main prize of £15,000 (Photo: Facebook).

Cardiff Singer of the World Competition began this past weekend, but the real event may take place this Saturday. Check out the scheduled opera stars that will be giving master class:

Saturday 22 June
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Dora Stoutzker Hall – with competition non-finalists
11am, Håkan Hagegård, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
3pm, Elena Obraztsova, Neil Shicoff

Richard Burton Theatre – with vocal studies students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
12.30pm, Christoph Prégardien
4pm, Dame Felicity Palmer
Each session lasts more than one hour and times are likely to overlap.
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Check out more of the television and radio broadcast schedule by clicking here. And watch a preview of the BBC special celebrating 30 years of the competition after the jump.

There Ain't Nothing Like a Dame Felicity Palmer

(Photo: Christian Steiner)

International opera star Felicity Joan Palmer tops the list of Gloucestershire people on the New Year Honours list. The Cheltenham-born mezzo-soprano is made a Dame for services to music. She was appointed CBE in 1993.

Dame Felicity is currently singing the role of Geneviève in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande at the Metropolitan Opera. The January 1 performance will be a Saturday matinee broadcast on the radio and Sirius XM.

MET Sirius XM Radio Tonight: "Pelléas et Mélisande"

Listen to the Metropolitan Opera perform Debussy's Pélleas et Mélisande live tonight at 8:00 PM EST on Sirius XM radio. Intermission guests: Erika Miklósa (see video) and Felicity Palmer.