"Dido & Aeneas", Bayerische Staatsoper
Opera Company of the Year 2023
(Image: Bernd Uhlig)
2024
Winners
Conductor
Simone YoungDesigner
Rufus DidwiszusDirector
Christof LoyEqual Opportunities & Impact
Opera For PeaceFemale Singer
Lisette OropesaFestival
Sponsored by River Global Savonlinna Opera FestivalLeadership
Sponsored by Good Governance Institute Christina ScheppelmannLifetime Achievement
José van DamMale Singer
Benjamin BernheimNew Production
Iphigénie en Aulide / en Tauride (Festival d'Aix/Tcherniakov - co-produced by Greek National Opera & Opera national de Paris)Opera Company
Komische Oper BerlinPhilanthropy
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)Readers' Award
Sponsored by Opera with Opera News Arturo Chacón CruzRecording (Complete Opera)
Bertin: Fausto (Bru Zane)Recording (Solo Recital)
Michael Spyres: In the Shadows (Erato)Rediscovered Work
Antonio Salieri: Kublai Khan(MusikTheater an der Wien)Rising Star
Sponsored by Nexus Media Group Justin Austin (baritone) / Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir (mezzo-soprano)Sustainability
Finnish National OperaWorld Premiere
Sponsored by Oberon Eötvös: Valuska (Hungarian State Opera)Nominees
Conductor
Thomas GuggeisEmmanuelle Haïm
Enrique Mazzola
Carlo Rizzi
Christophe Rousset
Simone Young
Designer
Gideon DaveyRufus Didwiszus
Anna-Sofia Kirsch
Etienne Pluss
Rebecca Ringst
Paul Zoller
Director
Claus GuthChristof Loy
Jetske Mijnssen
Louisa Muller
Marie-Eve Signeyrole
Benedikt von Peter
Equal Opportunities & Impact
Asian Opera AllianceNorthern Ireland Opera
Opera Columbus: Crane Directing Fellowship
Opera For Peace
Streetwise Opera
Teatro Regio di Parma: Manifesto Etico
Female Singer
Elsa DreisigRosa Feola
Aleksandra Kurzak
Lisette Oropesa
Anna Pirozzi
Adela Zaharia
Festival
Sponsored by River Global Buxton International FestivalDes Moines Metro Opera
Garsington Opera
Savonlinna Opera Festival
Smetana Opera Cycle Ostrava
Tiroler Festspiele Erl
Male Singer
Benjamin BernheimCyrille Dubois
Gerald Finley
Pene Pati
Jonathan Tetelman
Klaus Florian Vogt
New Production
Iphigénie en Aulide / en Tauride (Festival d'Aix/Tcherniakov)Don Carlos (Grand Théâtre de Genève/Steier)
The Exterminating Angel (Opéra national de Paris/Bieito)
Khovanshchina (Staatsoper Berlin/Guth)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Teatro Real/Pelly)
Death in Venice(Welsh National Opera/Fuchs)
Opera Company
Komische Oper BerlinNational Theatre Prague
Opéra national du Rhin
Opera Philadelphia
Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège
Wiener Staatsoper
Readers' Award
Sponsored by Opera with Opera News Xabier AnduagaEkaterina Bakanova
Piotr Beczała
Sara Blanch
Arturo Chacón Cruz
Asmik Grigorian
Ermonela Jaho
Ludovic Tézier
VOTE
Recording (Complete Opera)
Donizetti: L'esule di Roma (Opera Rara)Langgaard: Antikrist (Naxos)
Bertin: Fausto (Bru Zane)
Lully: Thésée (Aparte)
Adams: Girls of the Golden West (Nonesuch)
Meyerbeer: Le Prophète (LSO Live)
Recording (Solo Recital)
Aigul Akhmetshina: Aigul (Decca)Golda Schultz: Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy! (Alpha)
Marina Viotti: Mezzo Mozart (Aparte)
Michael Spyres: In the Shadows (Erato)
Reinoud van Mechelen: Legros, Haute-Contre de Gluck(Alpha)
Saioa Hernandez: Il verismo d'oro (EuroArts)
Rediscovered Work
Granville Bantock: The Seal-Woman (Scots Opera Project)Antonio Salieri: Kublai Khan(MusikTheater an der Wien)
Thea Musgrave: Mary, Queen of Scots (Oper Leipzig)
Ethel Smyth: Der Wald (Oper Wuppertal)
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati: Amerika (Opernhaus Zürich)
Carolina Uccelli: Anna di Resburgo (Teatro Nuovo)
Augusta Holmès: La Montagne Noire (Oper Dortmund)
Camille Erlanger: L’Aube rouge (Wexford Festival Opera)
Rising Star
Sponsored by Nexus Media Group Justin Austin (baritone)Charlotte Corderoy (conductor)
Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir (mezzo-soprano)
Duke Kim (tenor)
Katia Ledoux (mezzo-soprano)
Anthony León (tenor)
Marina Monzó (soprano)
Yaroslav Shemet (conductor)
William Guanbo Su (bass)
Jasmin White (contralto)
Sustainability
ARVIVA: Arts vivants, arts durablesFinnish National Opera
INSPIRE Project (Erasmus+)
Opera North: Green Season
Santa Fe Opera
Wild Arts
World Premiere
Sponsored by Oberon Talbot: The Diving Bell & the Butterfly (The Dallas Opera)Eötvös: Valuska (Hungarian State Opera)
Foccroulle: Cassandra (La Monnaie De Munt)
Čekovská: Here I am, Orlando (National Theatre Brno)
Bilodeau: La Reine-garçon (Opéra de Montréal)
Orth: 10 Days in a Madhouse (Opera Philadelphia)
Spears: The Righteous (Santa Fe Opera)
Glanert: Die Jüdin von Toledo (Semperoper Dresden)
Carretero: La Bella Susona (Teatro de la Maestranza)
Manchado: La Regenta (Teatro Real)