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The Metropolitan Opera<\/p>\n
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\u2022 The Metropolitan Opera National Council (MONC) invited Mexico to become its 41st audition district in 2017
\u2022 The Mexico District of the Competition is sponsored by the San Miguel MetOpera Trust.
\u2022 The first Competition in Mexico took place in San Miguel de Allende on November 8, 2018.
\u2022 The Mexico District celebrated its fifth anniversary on March 19, 2023
\u2022156 young Mexican singers have been heard by judges certified by the Metropolitan Opera.
\u202227 singers have been named winners & moved on to the regional round in New Orleans; most often their first international competition<\/p>\n
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\u202210 singers have received prize awards in New Orleans.
\u20222 singers have reached the semi-final round of the competition & have sung on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House.
\u2022In March, 2020, soprano Denis Velez became the first Mexican singer named a Grand National Finals Winner of the Competition on the MetOpera stage, with a prize award of $20,000USD.
\u2022Soprano Yunuet Laguna, 2018 winner, made her solo debut on the stage of the MetOpera in March, 2022.<\/p>\n
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\u20225 singers have had the experience of being long-term young artists in residence with major American opera companies
San Miguel MetOpera Trust and its generous expat community sponsors have raised more than $200,000USD in support of the Competition<\/p>\n
The name of the Competition was changed in 2021 to the Eric & Dominique Laffont Competition, in honor of the transformative gift of this family to the MetOpera.<\/p>\n
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