Gestern Abend wurden im Teatro Real in Madrid die diesjährigen International Opera Awards verliehen.
Zum ersten Mal wurde der Opera Company Award gemeinsam an zwei Häuser verliehen. Die ukrainischen Opern- und Balletttheater Lwiw und Odessa wurden für ihre unglaubliche Arbeit gewürdigt, die sie unter außergewöhnlichen Umständen geleistet haben.
Die Nominierungen und die Sieger (fett markiert):
CONDUCTOR:
- Edward Gardner
- Eun Sun Kim
- Oksana Lyniv
- Joana Mallwitz
- Carlo Rizzi
- Daniele Rustioni
DESIGNER:
- Lizzie Clachan
- Paolo Fantin
- Michael Levine
- Tom Piper, Rainer Sellmaier
- Leslie Travers
DIGITAL OPERA:
- The Copper Queen (Arizona Opera)
- Upload (Dutch National Opera)
- Gianni Schicchi (Grange Park Opera)
- Out of the Ordinary (Irish National Opera)
- IL TRIONFO.HER TEMPLE (Nationaltheater Mannheim)
- Soldier Songs (Opera Philadelphia)
DIRECTOR:
- Rosetta Cucchi
- Stefan Herheim
- Tobias Kratzer
- James Robinson
- Simon Stone
- Adele Thomas
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES & IMPACT:
- Foundation Studio (Cape Town Opera)
- Opera for Peace
- Opera Philadelphia
- Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
- Pacific Opera & Tapestry
FEMALE SINGER:
- Svetlana Aksenova
- Stéphanie D’Oustrac
- Sabine Devieilhe
- Federica Lombardi
- Aušrinė Stundytė
- Pretty Yende
FESTIVAL:
- Donizetti Festival (Bergamo)
- Garsington Opera
- George Enescu Festival
- Oper Leipzig Wagner 22
- Santa Fe Opera
- Savonlinna Festival
MALE SINGER:
- Benjamin Bernheim
- Allan Clayton
- Stéphane Degout
- Enea Scala
- Russell Thomas
- Georg Zeppenfeld
NEW PRODUCTION:
- Bregenz Festival: Madama Butterfly (d. Andreas Homoki)
- English National Opera: The Handmaid’s Tale (d. Annilese Miskimmon)
- Festival d’Aix-en-Provence: L’incoronazione di Poppea (d. Ted Huffman)
- Glyndebourne: La Voix humaine/Les Mamelles de Tirésias (d. Laurent Pelly)
- National Theatre Brno: The Greek Passion (d. Jiří Heřman)
- Salzburg Festival: Il trittico (d. Christof Loy)
READERS’ AWARD:
- Asmik Grigorian
- Saioa Hernandez
- Jonas Kaufmann
- Lisette Oropesa
- Pene Pati
- Golda Schultz
- Andreas Schager
- Michael Spyres
RECORDING (COMPLETE OPERA):
- Barry: Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (Irish National Opera/Signum) CD
- Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (Les Siècles/Harmonia Mundi) CD
- Dvořák: Rusalka (Teatro Real/C Major) DVD
- Offenbach: Le Voyage dans la lune (Choeur et Orchestre National Montpellier Occitane/Bru Zane) CD
- Weber: Der Freischütz (Freiburger Barockorchester/Harmonia Mundi) CD
- Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini (Deutsche Oper Berlin/Naxos) DVD
RECORDING (SOLO RECITAL):
- Benjamin Bernheim: Boulevard des Italiens (DG)
- Marianne Crebassa: Séguedilles (Erato)
- Elsa Dreisig: Mozart x 3 (Erato)
- Sondra Radvanovsky: Donizetti—Three Queens (Pentatone)
- Michael Spyres: Baritenor (Erato)
- Jonathan Tetelman: Arias (DG)
REDISCOVERED WORK:
- Dallapiccola: Ulisse (Oper Frankfurt)
- Davis: X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X (Odyssey Opera)
- Guiraud: Frédégonde (Theater Dortmund)
- Langgaard: Antikrist (Deutsche Oper Berlin)
- Schulhoff: Flammen (Prague National Theatre)
- Smyth: The Wreckers (Glyndebourne)
RISING TALENT:
- Anthony Almeida (director)
- Iván Ayón Rivas (tenor)
- Federica Guida (soprano)
- Barno Ismatullaeva (soprano)
- Iván López Reynoso (conductor)
- Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano)
- John Savournin (director)
- Yaritza Véliz (soprano)
- Nil Venditti (conductor)
- Nardus Williams (soprano)
SUSTAINABILITY:
- Glyndebourne
- Gothenburg Opera
- Culture for the Future (Dresden)
- ENO
- La Monnaie
- Opéra de Lyon
WORLD PREMIERE:
- Awakenings (Tobias Picker/Opera Theatre of Saint Louis)
- Castor and Patience (Gregory Spears/Cincinnati Opera)
- Grete Minde (Eugen Engel/Theater Magdeburg)
- M. Butterfly (Huang Ruo/Santa Fe Opera)
- The Time of our Singing (Kris Defoort/La Monnaie De Munt)
- Violet (Tom Coult/Music Theatre Wales
Den Lifetime Achievement Award erhielt die Mezzosopranistin Dame Janet Baker.
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