[3] In the 1970s and 1980s, the competition was marked by the large number of winners from the USSR, the United States and Romania.
Since the mid-2000s, South Korea has been the winner, with 4 consecutive tenors having won the Grand Prix from 2008 to 2016.
During the various editions, it has notably been chaired by Emmanuel Bondeville, Daniel-Lesur, Marcel Landowski, Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, Rolf Liebermann and Hugues Gall.
Several foreign celebrities were also jurors, including tenors Ferruccio Tagliavini and Giuseppe Di Stefano, or even sopranos Rita Streich, Birgit Nilsson, Leyla Gencer, Teresa Stich-Randall or Edda Moser.
[6] Applicants must present a program comprising six titles in the Mélodie, Lied, Oratorio categories, and six extracts from operas, with at least one French composer.