Houston's Isolde Named Singer of the Year at Opera Awards

Britain's prestigious Opera magazine named Nina Stemme best female singer of the year at its inaugural awards presentations last night in London. Jonas Kaufmann garnered the award for best male singer. The ceremony was held at the Hilton Park Lane in London.

The Opera Awards were instituted this year by Harry Hyman, a business man and opera supporter in Britain, and the British magazine Opera to bring recognition to the world of opera in a broad range of Oscar-like categories. The awards honored achievement during the year 2012 and were determined by a 10-person jury made up of critics and practitioners, following nominations from the readers of Opera magazine and the public at large.

We congratulate Ms. Stemme on this auspicious recognition and are proud that she chose HGO as the location of her only American operatic performances this season.