I think it does with choirs due to budget.... It's very hard. Orchestras have to do their programming years in advance, and book their artists. So they fit young artists in where they can to give them that exposure. But if you're talking about something like the Toronto Symphony Orchestra or the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, they have to have the big names to put people in the seats. So it's a really big gamble for them or for an opera company to hire young artists fresh off a competition.
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