International Opera Awards Finalists Revealed; Winners To Be Announced, April 26
By: Christina Mancuso Jan. 14, 2015
On Wednesday 14 January 2015, at HUSH in Mayfair, the finalists of the International Opera Awards 2015 were announced. These were selected by the jury chaired by John Allison, editor of Opera magazine and classical music critic with The Daily Telegraph.
John Allison was joined on the jury by Peter Alward, Managing Director and Intendant of the Salzburg Easter Festival,Per Boye Hansen, Artistic Director of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, Kathryn Harries, Director of the National Opera Studio, Evans Mirageas, Artistic Director of Cincinnati Opera and the Vice-President for Artistic Planning for The Atlanta Symphony and Nicholas Payne, Director of Opera Europa.
Also on the jury were Hugh Canning, chief music critic for the The Sunday Times and regular Opera contributor, George Loomis who covers opera and classical music for the International Herald Tribune, MusicalAmerica.com, The Financial Times and Opera, Belgian critic Erna Metdepenninghen, formerly of De Standaard, and a correspondent of Opera, andHugo Shirley, Deputy Editor of Opera, music critic for Gramophone and The Daily Telegraph.
The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Sunday 26 April at The Savoy Theatre in London. Tickets from £30 are available: http://www.operaawards.org
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Nominations
Accessibility
Bregenz Festival
Den Norske Opera
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
Opera Australia
Opera North
Opera Philadelphia
Conductor
Semyon Bychkov
Edward Gardner
Lothar Koenigs
Gianandrea Noseda
Carlo Rizzi
Christian Thielemann
CD (Complete Opera)
Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Signum
Handel: Tamerlano, Naïve
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, Sony
Offenbach: Fantasio, Opera Rara
Rameau: Les Indes galantes, Musiques à la Chabotterie
Strauss: Intermezzo, cpo
CD (Operatic Recital)
Anna Bonitatibus: Semiramide: La Signora Regale, deutsche harmonia mundi
Cecilia Bartoli: St Petersburg, Decca
Joyce DiDonato: Stella di Napoli, Warner Classics
Franco Fagioli: Porpora-il maestro, Naïve
Carolyn Sampson: Arias for Marie Fel, Hyperion
Krassimira Stoyanova: Verdi Arias, Orfeo
Chorus
English National Opera
Metropolitan Opera
MusicAeterna (Perm Opera)
Opera Vlaanderen
Welsh National Opera
Wiener Staatsoper
Designer
Es Devlin
Klaus Grunberg
Michael Levine
Erhard Rom
Jürgen Rose
Paul Steinberg
Director
David Alden
Calixto Bieito
Robert Carsen
Richard Jones
Christof Loy
Graham Vick
DVD
Andriessen: La Commedia, Nonesuch
Berg: Lulu, Bel Air Classiques
Britten: Death in Venice, Opus Arte
Hahn: Ciboulette, FRA Musica
Strauss: Elektra, Bel Air Classiques
Wagner: Parsifal, Sony
Female Singer
Joyce DiDonato
Anja Harteros
Liudmyla Monastyrska
Anna Netrebko
Anita Rachvelishvili
Sonya Yoncheva
Festival
Bregenz
Cincinnati Opera
Garsington
Glimmerglass
Operadagen Rotterdam
Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro
Male Singer
Lawrence Brownlee
Iestyn Davies
Christian Gerhaher
John Osborn
Michael Spyres
Ludovic Tézier
Newcomer
Christopher Allen
Mary Birnbaum
James Darrah
Lotte de Beer
Tim Murray
Raphaël Pichon
New Production
Alcina, Zurich Opera
Ariodante, Aix-en-Provence
Gurrelieder, DNO
Benvenuto Cellini, English National Opera
Khovanskygate, Birmingham Opera Company
Prince Igor, Metropolitan Opera
Opera Company
English National Opera
Komische Oper Berlin
Novaya Opera
Opera Vlaanderen
Oper Graz
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie
Readers' Award
Piotr Becza?a
Ferruccio Furlanetto
Susan Graham
Jonas Kaufmann
Aleksandra Kurzak
Mariusz Kwiecien
Karita Mattila
Nina Stemme
Rediscovered Work
Barbieri: Los diamantes de la corona, Teatro de la Zarzuela
Donizetti: Les Martyrs, Opera Rara
Faccio: Amleto, Opera Southwest
Martin?: What Men Live By, Czech Philharmonic
Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira, Rossini Opera Festival
Saint-Saëns: Les Barbares, L'Opéra-Théâtre de St Etienne
Richard Strauss Anniversary Production (In memory of Michael Kennedy)
Ariadne auf Naxos, Glimmerglass
Daphne, La Monnaie
Feuersnot, Dresden Music Festival
Die Frau ohne Schatten, Royal Opera
Friedenstag, Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern
Der Rosenkavalier, Glyndebourne
World Premiere
Anderson: Thebans, English National Opera
Bell: A Christmas Carol, Houston Grand Opera
Boesmans: Au Monde, La Monnaie
Gothe: Blanche & Marie, Norrlands Operan Umeå
Gruber: Tales from the Vienna Woods, Bregenz
Metcalf: Under Milk Wood: Taliesin Arts Centre (Swansea), Le Chien qui Chante (Montreal) and Companion Star (NY) in association with Welsh National Opera
Young Singer
Angel Blue
David Butt Philip
Nicole Car
Aurelia Fabian
Justina Gringyte
Jennifer Johnson Cano
Ross Ramgobin
Nicky Spence
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