2022 Opera Awards Shortlist
The announced shortlist categories and nominees are:
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