Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki, Polish National Opera
2023
The 2023 Opera Awards took place at Teatr Wielki, Polish National Opera on the 9th November 2023. If you were not able to attend in person, you can still watch it on You Tube: Please click here
Winners
Conductor
Antonio PappanoDesigner
Lizzie ClachanDirector
Barrie KoskyEqual Opportunities & Impact
La Monnaie De MuntFemale Singer
Aigul AkhmetshinaFestival
Festival d'Aix-en-ProvenceLeadership
Stephane LissnerLifetime Achievement
Marilyn HorneMale Singer
Michael SpyresNew Production
War & Peace (Bayerische Staatsoper/Tcherniakov)Opera Company
Bayerische StaatsoperOpera Readers' Award
Nadine SierraPhilanthrophy
The Sullivan FoundationRecording (Complete Opera)
Mercadante: Il Proscritto (Opera Rara)Recording (Solo Recital)
Lisette Oropesa, French Bel Canto Arias (Pentatone)Rediscovered Work
Moniuszko: Jawnuta (Teatr Wielki, Poznan)Sustainability
Dutch National OperaWorld Premiere
Alexander Raskatov: Animal Farm (Dutch National Opera)Young Singer
Andrzej FilonczykNominees
Conductor
Susanna MälkkiMarc Minkowski
Antonio Pappano
François-Xavier Roth
Nathalie Stutzmann
Keri-Lynn Wilson
Designer
Lizzie ClachanCharles Edwards
Christof Hetzer
Boris Kudlicka
Christian Schmidt
Katrin Lea Tag
Director
Vasily BarkhatovLotte de Beer
Tatjana Gürbaca
Andreas Homoki
Barrie Kosky
Keith Warner
Equal Opportunities & Impact
Asian Opera AllianceLa Monnaie De Munt
National Opera Studio
Opera for Peace
Tapestry Opera
The Atlanta Opera
Female Singer
Aigul AkhmetshinaEleonora Buratto
Elina Garanca
Ermonela Jaho
Golda Schultz
Corinne Winters
Festival
Bayreuth BaroqueFestival d’Aix-en-Provence
O. Festival, Rotterdam
Grange Festival
Handel Festival, Halle
O23 (Opera Philadelphia)
Male Singer
Mika KaresTomasz Konieczny
Luca Salsi
Ryan Speedo Green
Michael Spyres
Michael Volle
New Production
War & Peace (Bayerische Staatsoper/Tcherniakov)Les contes d’Hoffmann (Opera Australia/Michieletto)
Nixon in China (Opera national de Paris/Carrasco)
Wozzeck (ROH/Warner)
The Greek Passion (Salzburg Festival/Stone)
Orfeo (Santa Fe Opera/Sharon)
Il trittico (Scottish Opera/McVicar)
Il turco in Italia (Teatro Real/Pelly)
Opera Company
Bayerische StaatsoperGrand Théâtre de Genève
Opera Comique
San Francisco Opera
Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
Volksoper Wien
Readers' Award
Sponsored by OPERA Piotr BeczałaNicholas Brownlee
Freddie De Tommaso
Michael Fabiano
Sally Matthews
Lisette Oropesa
Sondra Radvanovsky
Nadine Sierra
Recording (Complete Opera)
Dessau: Lanzelot (Audite)Franck: Hulda (Bru Zane)
Lully: Psyché (Chateau de Versailles Spectacles)
Mercadante: Il proscritto (Opera Rara)
Puccini: Turandot (Warner Classics)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve (Naxos)
Recording (Solo Recital)
Cyrille Dubois: So Romantique! (Alpha)Javier Camarena: Signor Gaetano (Pentatone)
Jodie Devos: Bijoux perdus (Alpha)
Lisette Oropesa: French Bel Canto Arias (Pentatone)
Marina Viotti: A Tribute to Pauline Viardot (Aparte)
Sonya Yoncheva: The Courtesan (SY11 Productions)
Rediscovered Work
Salieri: La fiera di Venezia (Bampton Classical Opera)Raff: Samson (Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar)
Massenet: Le Roi de Lahore (Dorset Opera)
Moniuszko: Jawnuta (Poznań Opera House)
Corselli: Achille in Sciro (Teatro Real)
Weingartner: Orestes (Theater Erfurt)
Tournemire: La légende de Tristan (Theater Ulm)
Sustainability
17h25 CollectiveDutch National Opera
English National Opera
Theatre Green Book
Glyndebourne
La Monnaie De Munt
Young Singer
Sara BlanchAndrzej Filonczyk
Adriana Gonzalez
Laurence Kilsby
Young Woo Kim
Gabriele Kupšytė
Josh Lovell
Blaise Malaba
Marigona Qerkezi
Beth Taylor
World Premiere
Alexander Raskatov: Animal Farm (Dutch National Opera)George Benjamin: Picture a Day Like This (Festival d’Aix en Provence)
Raquel Garcia-Tomas: Alexina B. (Gran Teatre del Liceu)
Soren Nils Eichberg: Oryx and Crake (Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden)
Stankovych: Terrible Revenge (Lviv Opera)
Kevin Puts: The Hours (Metropolitan Opera)
Gabriela Lena Frank: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego (San Diego Opera)
Sheila Silver: A Thousand Splendid Suns (Seattle Opera)
David Hackbridge-Johnson: Blaze of Glory! (Welsh National Opera)