"Le Roi Carotte" (Opera de Lyon)
Rediscovered Work of the Year 2016
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2016
Winners
Accessibility
The Opera PlatformCD (Complete Opera)
Donizetti: Les Martyrs (Opera Rara)CD (Operatic Recital)
Ann Hallenberg: Agrippina (DHM)Chorus
English National OperaConductor
Gianandrea NosedaDesigner
Vicki MortimerDirector
Laurent PellyDVD
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride, Staatsoper Berlin (Bel Air Classiques)Female Singer
Mariella DeviaFestival
GlyndebourneLifetime Achievement
Sponsored by Mazars Brigitte FassbaenderMale Singer
Sponsored by Radisson Blu, part of Edwardian Hotels London Gregory KundeNew Production
Sponsored by Vineyard Britten, Peter Grimes, Theater an der WienOpera Company
Dutch National OperaPhilanthropist
Bill & Judy BollingerChristine Collins
Readers' Award
Sponsored by Opera Magazine Ermonela JahoRediscovered Work
Offenbach: Le Roi Carotte, Opéra de LyonWorld Premiere
Jennifer Higdon: Cold Mountain, Santa Fe OperaYoung Conductor
Giacomo SagripantiYoung Director
Fabio CeresaYoung Female Singer
Asmik GrigorianYoung Male Singer
Stanislas de BarbeyracNominees
Accessibility
Atlanta OperaBirmingham Opera Company
English Touring Opera
Monster in the Maze (Aix en Provence, Berlin, London)
Opera Holland Park
The Opera Platform
CD (Complete Opera)
Brett Dean: Bliss, ABC ClassicsDonizetti: Les Martyrs, Opera Rara
Handel: Partenope, Erato
Nielsen: Maskarade, Dacapo
Smetana: Dalibor, Onyx
Verdi: Aida, Warner
CD (Operatic Recital)
Diana Damrau: Fiamma del Belcanto (Warner)Ann Hallenberg: Agrippina (DHM)
Bryan Hymel: Héroïque (Warner)
Christiane Karg: Scene! (Berlin Classics)
Matthew Rose: Arias for Benucci (Hyperion)
Sonya Yoncheva: Paris, Mon Amour (Sony)
Chorus
English National OperaGlyndebourne
Komische Oper
Metropolitan Opera
MusicAeterna
Opera Vlaanderen
Conductor
René JacobsVladimir Jurowski
Gianandrea Noseda
Carlo Rizzi
Christian Thielemann
Mark Wigglesworth
Designer
Michael LevineVicki Mortimer
Rebecca Ringst
Heike Scheele
Vita Tzykun
Annemarie Woods
Director
Kasper HoltenDamiano Michieletto
Katie Mitchell
Laurent Pelly
David Pountney
Mariusz Treliński
DVD
Puccini: Manon Lescaut, The Royal Opera (Sony)Rameau: Les Indes galantes, Les Talens Lyriques (Alpha)
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride, Staatsoper Berlin (Bel Air)
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Glyndebourne (Opus Arte)
Szymanowski: Król Roger, The Royal Opera (Opus Arte)
Wagner: Tannhäuser, Bayreuth Festival (Opus Arte)
Female Singer
Anna BonitatibusMariella Devia
Rosa Feola
Christine Goerke
Evelyn Herlitzius
Anna Netrebko
Festival
Festival d’Aix-en-ProvenceGlyndebourne
Grimeborn
Ruhr Triennale
Santa Fe Opera
Wexford Festival Opera
Male Singer
Sponsored by Radisson Blu, part of Edwardian Hotels London Javier CamarenaAnthony Roth Costanzo
Stéphane Degout
Igor Golovatenko
Gregory Kunde
Henry Waddington
New Production
Sponsored by Vineyard Bellini: I Puritani, Welsh National OperaBerg: Wozzeck, Lyric Opera of Chicago
Britten: Peter Grimes, Theater an der Wien
Halévy: La Juive, Opera Vlaanderen
Handel: Saul, Glyndebourne
Mascagni/Leoncavallo: Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci, Salzburg Easter Festival
Opera Company
Deutsche Oper BerlinDutch National Opera
Opera Philadelphia
Polish National Opera
Theater an der Wien
Welsh National Opera
Readers' Award
Danielle De NieseJoyce DiDonato
Michael Fabiano
Gerald Finley
Juan Diego Flórez
Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Ermonela Jaho
Eva-Maria Westbroek
Rediscovered Work
Donizetti: Wild Man of the West Indies, English Touring OperaEgk: Peer Gynt, Staatstheater Braunschweig
Mascagni: Guglielmo Ratcliff, Wexford Festival Opera
Offenbach: Le Roi Carotte, Opéra de Lyon
Porpora: Il Germanico, Innsbrucker Festwochen der alten Musik
Tippett: The Ice Break, Birmingham Opera Company
World Premiere
Pascal Dusapin: Penthesilea, La MonnaieHans Gefors: Notorious, Gothenburg Opera
Jennifer Higdon: Cold Mountain, Santa Fe Opera
Jimmy López: Bel Canto, Lyric Opera of Chicago
Kate Miller-Heidke: The Rabbits, Opera Australia & Barking Gecko, in association with West Australian Opera, Perth International Arts Festival and Melbourne Festival
Young Conductor
Bassem AkikiMatthew Aucoin
Mirga Gražinyté-Tyla
Christian Kluxen
Giacomo Sagripanti
Duncan Ward
Young Director
Fabio CeresaDaisy Evans
Max Hoehn
Sjaron Minailo
Eva-Maria Melbye
Rafael Villalobos
Young Female Singer
Ekaterina BakanovaAida Garifullina
Asmik Grigorian
Golda Schultz
Nadine Sierra
Nozuko Teto
Young Male Singer
Michele AngeliniAtalla Ayan
Stanislas de Barbeyrac
Ioan Hotea
Gyula Orendt
Fernando Javier Radó