BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, 2013 Competitors
The final 20 competitors for the 2013 competition were selected from more than 400 opera and concert singers at the start of their careers. Auditions took place in nine locations across the world, with singers all eager to win a place in the world's greatest singing competition.
- Argentina: Daniela Mack
- Belarus: Yuri Gorodetski
- China: Yi Li
- Croatia: Marko Mimica
- Egypt: Gala El Hadidi
- England: Ben Johnson
- England: Katherine Broderick
- Hungary: Mária Celeng
- Italy: Loriana Castellano
- Italy: Teresa Romano
- Lithuania: Eglė Šidlauskaitė
- Poland: Michał Partyka
- Portugal: Susana Gaspar
- Russia: Alexey Bogdanchikov
- South Africa: Luthando Qave
- South Korea: Jeongcheol Cha
- South Korea: Kihwan Sim
- USA: Jamie Barton
- Ukraine: Olena Tokar
- Wales: Gary Griffiths