"The Barber of Seville", Santa Fe Opera
Festival of the Year 2022
(Image: Curtis Brown)
2022
Winners
Conductor
Daniele RustioniDesigner
Michael LevineDigital Opera
Upload (Dutch National Opera)Director
Stefan HerheimEqual Opportunities & Impact
Foundation Studio (Cape Town Opera)Female Singer
Sabine DevieilheFestival
Sponsored by Villa Conchi Santa Fe OperaLeadership
Sponsored by Good Governance Institute Nicholas PayneLifetime Achievement
Dame Janet BakerMale Singer
Stéphane DegoutNew Production
Glyndebourne: La Voix humaine/Les Mamelles de Tirésias (c. Robin Ticciati, d. Laurent Pelly)Opera Company
Lviv National Academic Opera & Ballet Theatre jointly with Odesa Opera & Ballet TheatreReaders' Award
Sponsored by OPERA Magazine Pene PatiPhilanthropy
Aline Foriel-DestezetRecording (Complete Opera)
Offenbach: Le Voyage dans la lune (Bru Zane)Recording (Solo Recital)
Michael Spyres: Baritenor (Erato)Rediscovered Work
Dallapiccola: Ulisse (Oper Frankfurt)Rising Star
Nardus Williams (soprano)Sustainability
Gothenburg OperaWorld Premiere
Defoort: The Time of our Singing (La Monnaie De Munt)Nominees
Conductor
Edward GardnerEun Sun Kim
Oksana Lyniv
Joana Mallwitz
Carlo Rizzi
Daniele Rustioni
Designer
Lizzie ClachanPaolo 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 CucchiStefan 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 Opera
Female Singer
Svetlana AksenovaStéphanie 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 BernheimAllan 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
Sponsored by OPERA Magazine Asmik GrigorianSaioa 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) Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (Les Siècles/Harmonia Mundi)Dvořák: Rusalka (Teatro Real/C Major)
Offenbach: Le Voyage dans la lune (Choeur et Orchestre National Montpellier Occitane/Bru Zane)
Weber: Der Freischütz (Freiburger Barockorchester/Harmonia Mundi)
Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini (Deutsche Oper Berlin/Naxos) DVD
Recording (Solo Recital)
Benjamin Bernheim: Boulevard des Italiens (Deutsche Grammophon)Marianne Crebassa: Séguedilles (Erato)
Elsa Dreisig: Mozart x 3 (Erato)
Sondra Radvanovsky: Donizetti—Three Queens (Pentatone)
Michael Spyres: Baritenor (Erato)
Jonathan Tetelman: Arias (Deutsche Grammophon)
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 Star
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
GlyndebourneGothenburg Opera
Culture for Future (Dresden)
ENO
La Monnaie De Munt
Opéra de Lyon
World Premiere
Picker: Awakenings (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis)Spears: Castor and Patience (Cincinnati Opera)
Engel: Grete Minde (Theater Magdeburg)
Huang: M. Butterfly (Santa Fe Opera)
Defoort: The Time of our Singing (La Monnaie De Munt)
Coult: Violet (Music Theatre Wales)