What is ANON
The Anonymous Audition Project is here! The worlds only process for all international opera singers to be evaluated solely by the power of their voice alone!
100% BLIND DISCOVERY! No Photo. No CV. No Names.
Only at the end of the process will be the first time that the world (and the panel) see you and know your name!
The ANON Process:
You Register online and send 1-2 recordings that DO NOT show your face! Just Your Voice!!
The Panel of ACTUAL Casting Directors and Agents review the submissions and the top 40 are invited to sing an ANONYMOUS Zoom Audition for the same panel in a LIVE Auditions via Zoom with the camera OFF.
Up to 10 singers from the ANON Zoom Audition will be chosen to sing in the LIVE Online ANON Reveal Concert to be Livestreamed.
NEW FOR 2026 - Those on the panel have committed to offering AT LEAST a live stage audition to at least TWO of the singers they discover in ANON - to prove their commitment to follow thru with those who are "discovered" in this blind audition.
The 2026 ANON Panel will be:
- **NEW** Canadian Opera Company, Toronto
- **NEW** Askonas Holt Management UK
- Opera North UK
- Hamburgisches Staatsoper
- Staatstheater Oldenburg
- Jette Parker YAP / ROH Covent Garden
- Houston Grand Opera Studio
- Carroll Artists Management
- Piper Artists Management
- Trentino Music Festival
- Valentina Farcas - International Soprano
- David Blackburn - NYIOP / Fundacion Ibanez-Atkinson Chile
- others still awaitng confirmation
ANON Schedule
Anonymous Live 2026
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EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNT DEADLINE IS PAST
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FINAL APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 22 FEBRUARY 2026
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SEMI-FINALISTS NOTIFIED BY 4 MARCH 2026
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SEMI-FINAL LIVE ZOOM WILL BE 9 MARCH 2026
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FINAL REVEAL LIVESTREAM CONCERT WILL BE 14 MARCH 2026
Benefits of the Anonymous Project
Since the first Anonymous Audition Project in early 2021, NYIOP is committed to creating ongoing projects to help discover artists from all over the world based first and foremost on their singing!!
Now ANON returns in 2026 to continue the search for completely unbiased auditions!