Artistic director of the contest : Didier de Cottignies, artistic director
of the Orchestre de Paris

President of the Jury : Alexander Pereira, director of the Salzburg Festival

Members of the Jury : 

• Vincenzo de Vivo, artistic director of the Teatro Comunale, Bologna and artistic consultant of the Teatro Carlo Felice, Genova ; vicepresident of the jury 
• Eva Wagner-Pasquier, director of the Bayreuth Festival
• Dominique Meyer, director of the Vienna Staatsoper
• Maria Cristina Mazzavillani, founder of the Ravenna Festival
• Fortunato Ortombina, artistic director of the Teatro la Fenice, Venice
• Keiko Manabe, artistic director of the Tokyo Suntory Hall
• Jonathan Friend, artistic manager of the New York Metropolitan Opera
• Valérie Chevalier, director of artistic administration of the Opera National de Lorraine
  
• Sophie de Lint, director of the Zurich Opernhaus
• Bertrand de Billy, conductor
• Jean-Paul Scarpitta, manager of the Montpellier Opera
• Erna Metdepenninghen, journalist, honorary president of the "Union de la Presse musicale belge".