Sunday, February 17, 2013

Who Will Win the Operas

The First Annual Opera Awards announced. The awards sponsored by Opera magazine are the first exclusive Opera awards celebrating the artwork. Here are the nominees:


Accessibility
  • Metropolitan Opera
  • Streetwise Opera
  • Teatro Sociale di Como
  • Welsh National Opera


CD (Complete Opera)
  • Alessandro (Handel), c. George Petrou (Decca)
  • Artaserse (Vinci) c. Diego Fasolis (Virgin)
  • The Bartered Bride , c. Jiří Bělohlávek (HM)
  • La finta giardiniera , c. René Jacobs (HM)
  • Suor Angelica, c. Andris Nelsons (Orfeo)


CD (Operatic Recital)
  • Joyce DiDonato: Drama Queens (Virgin)
  • Elīna Garanča:Romantique (DG)
  • Christian Gerhaher:Romantic Arias (Sony)
  • Mariusz Kwiecień: Slavic Heroes (HM)


Chorus
  • Bayreuth Festival
  • Cape Town Opera
  • Helikon Opera, Moscow
  • Netherlands Opera


Conductor
  • Richard Farnes
  • Ingo Metzmacher
  • Nicola Luisotti
  • Antonio Pappano
  • Christian Thielemann


Costume Designer
  • Simon Higlett
  • Christian Lacroix
  • Olga Polikarpova
  • Buki Shiff


Director
  • Claus Guth
  • Stefan Herheim
  • Richard Jones
  • Dmitri Tcherniakov


DVD
  • Lohengrin, Bayreuth Festival, p. Hans Neuenfels, c. Andris Nelsons (Opus Arte)
  • Le nozze di Figaro, Opéra National de Paris, p. Giorgio Strehler, c. Philippe Jordan (Bel Air Classiques)
  • Tosca, Royal Opera, p. Jonathan Kent, c. Antonio Pappano (EMI)
  • Il trittico, Royal Opera, p. Richard Jones, c. Antonio Pappano (Opus Arte)
  • The Turn of the Screw, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, p. Jonathan Kent, c. Jakub Hruša (FRA Musica)


Female Singer
  • Sarah Connolly
  • Joyce DiDonato
  • Evelyn Herlitzius
  • Catherine Naglestad
  • Nina Stemme
  • Béatrice Uria-Monzon
Vote here for Readers' Award


Festival Opera
  • Aix-en-Provence
  • Garsington
  • Salzburg
  • Santa Fe
  • Wexford


Lighting Designer
  • Paule Constable
  • Jean Kalman
  • Duane Schuler
  • Adam Silverman
  • Jennifer Tipton
Male Singer
  • Aleksandrs Antonenko
  • Piotr Beczała
  • Joseph Calleja
  • Jonas Kaufmann
  • Luca Pisaroni
  • Bryn Terfel
Vote here for Readers' Award


Newcomer (conductor or director)
  • Leo Hussain
  • Oliver Mears
  • Evan Rogister
  • Daniele Rustioni
  • Robert Sandoz
  • Ryan Wigglesworth


New Production
  • Die Frau ohne Schatten, La Scala, p. Claus Guth, d. Christian Schmidt
  • The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, Netherlands Opera, p. and d. Dmitri Tcherniakov
  • Lulu, La Monnaie, p. Krzystof Warlikowski, d. Malgorzata Szczesniak
  • Norma, Opera North, p. Christopher Alden, d. Charlie Edwards
  • Peter Grimes, La Scala, p. Richard Jones, d. Stewart Laing
  • La Sonnambula, Staatstheater Stuttgart, p. Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito, d. Anna Viebrock


Opera Company
  • Oper Frankfurt
  • Opéra National de Lyon
  • Staatsoper Stuttgart
  • Stanislavsky Music Theatre Moscow
  • Theater an der Wien


Opera Orchestra
  • Maryinsky Theatre
  • Metropolitan Opera
  • Royal Opera House
  • Vienna Staatsoper/Philharmonic


Philanthropist/Sponsor
  • Audi
  • Investec Wealth and Investment
  • Sir Peter Moores
  • Rolex


Rediscovered Work
  • Artaserse (Vinci), Opéra National de Lorraine
  • Les Aventures du Roi Pausole (Honegger), Opéra de Genève
  • Belisario (Donizetti), Opera Rara
  • David et Jonathas (M.-A. Charpentier), Les Arts Florissants


Set Designer
  • Paul Atkinson
  • Christof Hetzer
  • Simon Holdsworth
  • Antony McDonald
  • Dmitri Tcherniakov


World Premiere
  • Babylon (Widmann), Bayerische Staatsoper
  • Mittwoch aus Licht(Stockhausen), Birmingham Opera Company
  • Silent Night (Puts), Minnesota Opera
  • Solaris (Glanert), Bregenz Festival
  • Written on Skin(Benjamin), Aix-en-Provence


Young Singer
  • Sophie Bevan
  • Andrei Bondarenko
  • Allan Clayton
  • Julia Lezhneva
  • Duncan Rock
  • Tamara Wilson

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